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Fort Worth-based shortline RR hopes to revive passenger, freight rail service on Colorado line

December 20th, 2020
December 20, 2020 - TRA Newswire - UPDATED January 2, 2021 to show agreement reached. Fort-Worth based Rio Grande Pacific subsidiary Colorado Midland & Pacific Railway Company (CMP) has entered into a commercialagreement with Union Pacific Railroad (UP) for the majority...

Phoenix Park plans Southern Gateway Rail Hub in Corpus Christi

December 20th, 2020
December 10, 2020 - LPGasMagazine.com - Phoenix Park Energy Marketing plans to construct the Southern Gateway Rail Hub, a 30,000-barrels-per-day (bpd) LPG rail terminal in Corpus Christi, Texas, to serve export markets from local LPG supply sources. The Southern Gateway Rail...

Old Burlington RR depot in Abilene to see new life

December 20th, 2020
December 10, 2020 - Abilene Reporter News - Trains brought progress to Abilene, and now progress in the South of Downtown Abilene District is about moving trains down the tracks. Ironhorse Resources railroad company is selling the historic Burlington Depot at...

BNSF names "Certified" Gainesville rail site

December 15th, 2020
December 15, 2020 - TRA Newswire - BNSF Railway has named a Gainesville Texas development one of its Certified Sites, cutting construction time for new rail-served businesses by an average six to nine months. Gateway Industrial Park in Gainesville is...

Georgetown Rail Equipment Company (GREX) becomes Loram Technologies January 1

December 11th, 2020
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] December 11, 2020 - TRA Newswire - Georgetown Rail Equipment Company (GREX), which was founded 27 years ago in their namesake Texas city, will become part of Loram on January 1st  a company long known for its rail inspection and maintenance...

Major rail park opens in Port Arthur and immediately announces expansion plans

December 8th, 2020
December 8, 2020 - TRA Newswire - The first phase of a major rail park opened this week in Port Arthur, Texas as rail cars started rolling onto some 30,000 feet of track. Alpenglow Rail and USA Rail Terminals opened the...

JR Tokai pins hope on Biden to push high-speed rail plan in Texas

December 6th, 2020
December 7, 2020 - asahi.com - A long-delayed high-speed rail project using Japanese technology in Texas has finally cleared a major hurdle and could receive a further push by the upcoming change in the White House. The U.S. federal government recently completed...

I-35 in Austin: worst traffic congestion in Texas (with no rail planned)

December 3rd, 2020
December 3, 2020 -TRA Newswire - It should come as no surprise to anyone who drives I-35 through Austin. The stretch of the interstate from U.S. Highway 290 north to State Highway 71, Ben White Boulevard in the south, has been identified...

Stephen Gardner named President at Amtrak

December 3rd, 2020
December 3, 2020 -TRA Newswire - Amtrak CEO Bill Flynn has appointed Stephen Gardner as President of the passenger railroad. Gardner’s appointment is part of a broader set of actions taken under Flynn’s leadership, working with the Board of Directors, to...

Jefferson: The last attempt to launch passenger rail from San Antonio to Austin lined consultants’ pockets but accomplished litt

November 25th, 2020
October 30, 2020 - ExpressNews.com - Greg Jefferson, Business Editor - Let’s start on a positive note: The Lone Star Rail District was very good at using tax dollars to keep a couple of people employed and consultants flush with billable...

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