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COVID-19 slowing down Texas Central plans for Dallas-Houston high speed rail

March 29th, 2020
March 27, 2020 - TRA Newswire -  Texas Central High-Speed Rail announced that their planned high-speed rail project from Dallas to Houston could be impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. "This is one of those moments where we have to acknowledge how small our world really...

Amtrak, Texas transit agencies modify schedules and policies during Coronavirus

March 27th, 2020
March 27, 2020 - TRA Newswire  - Amtrak and transit agencies in Texas have changed policies and modified schedules in response to a drastic drop in ridership during the Covid-19 virus pandemic. While Amtrak still maintains it's Texas service with the Heartland...

Coronavirus relief package Includes $1 billion for Amtrak, $25 billion for transit agencies

March 27th, 2020
March 27, 2020 - railpassengers.org - The U.S. House voted to send the CARES Act to the president’s desk this afternoon, enacting a $2 trillion coronavirus relief package into law and providing critically needed financial assistance to rail and transit operators...

Kansas Senate passes resolution supporting extension of Heartland Flyer from Texas to Kansas

March 22nd, 2020
March 22, 2020 - TRA Newswire - Rail travel from Fort Worth northward through Oklahoma to Kansas took a step forward with the entire Kansas State Senate passing a resolution in support of passenger train service to extend the daily Heartland...

Texas finally snags a small share of fed infrastructure/safety rail grants

March 13th, 2020
March 13, 2020 - TRA Newswire - U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao has announced that U.S. railroads will receive $248 million in grant funds for safety and infrastructure projects with four of those projects in Texas receiving $5.6 million. The grant...

FRA issues high speed safety rules for Texas Central - sets public meetings

March 12th, 2020
Updated March 13, 2020 - TRA Newswire - (Updated to include listing of three public meetings on draft safety regulations) It's called a Rule of Particular Applicability. What it really means is that the Federal Railroad Administration, in the past, never needed...

FTA awards CIG funds to two Texas transit agencies

March 2nd, 2020
March 2, 2020 - ProgressiveRailroading.com - The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) last week announced that Trinity Metro in Fort Worth and the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO) in Houston, Texas, will retain a combined $57.4 million of cost savings the administration generated from completed projects...

AMTRAK board to replace CEO: Anderson out - Flynn in

March 2nd, 2020
March 2, 2020 - TRA Newswire - The Amtrak board is to announce this week that CEO Richard Anderson is being replaced by William Flynn, who has a background in both air and sea logistics and railroading. Anderson had apparently fallen...

FRA chief: TEXRail one of eight RR's at risk of implementing PTC by year end

February 28th, 2020
February 28, 2020 - TRA Newswire - The head of the Federal Railroad Administration, Ron Batory, named names as he released a 2019 4th quarter report of railroads that may be in jeopardy by the end of this year in implementing...

Western Houston, Waller County now have an industrial rail park

February 27th, 2020
February 27, 2020 - TRA Newswire - RCR Hempstead Logistics Park is now open for rail business.  The 137 acre site (http://hempstead.rcrrailco.com/) located in Hempstead & Waller County will serve national and international grade manifest and transload firms looking to locate...

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