April 30, 2020 - TRA Newswire - Looking for a locomotive? BNSF Railway has a railyard full of them lined up, stored row after row in Galveston. However, TRA understands that the dozens and dozens of well-worn road engines north of Harborside...

April 21, 2020 - Star-Telegram.com - Gordon Dickson - Now may not seem the time to talk about spending big tax dollars on transportation projects, since the economy is in a funk and many Texans are stuck at home due to...

April 20, 2020 - TRA Newswire - The $311 million dollar question. Will the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) be applying for any rail project grants under the latest Federal Railroad Administration's notice of funding opportunity for capital projects? The most...

April 13, 2020 - PFLPetroleum Report - North American rail volumes declined 8.0% year over year in March compared to the 6.6% year over year decrease in February. March’s volumes were -11.7% compared to -8.4% in February. Volumes were negatively impacted by...

April 8, 2020 - FocusDailyNews.com - Carrollton City Council unanimously approved an agreement for a 125,000-square foot, six-story Class A office structure to serve as the marquee building within new Trinity Mills Station urban development. The City of Carrollton, Dallas Area Rapid...

Updated April 11, 2020 - TRA Newswire - A group of rural Texas state lawmakers are desperate to shut down construction of the state's first privately-financed high speed rail project as the days roll toward approval of the line between Dallas...

April 2, 2020 - TRA Newswire - You still have time to send the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) a comment that favors the safety standards the agency is proposing for Texas Central's high speed rail line between Dallas and Houston. On March...

March 25, 2020 - Betsy Cantwell - GoRail.org - As the novel coronavirus impacts communities all across the nation, the importance of the global supply chain has come into even clearer focus. An integrated network of planes, trains, ships and trucks...

March 27, 2020 - freightwaves.com - The Association of American Railroads (AAR), the American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association (ASLRRA), the Transportation Trades Department (TTD) of the AFL-CIO, and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) said they are pleased that Congress and President Donald Trump...

March 27, 2020 - citymetric.com - An extract from “Designing the Megaregion: Meeting Urban Challenges at a New Scale”, out now from Island Press. A regional transportation system does not become balanced until all its parts are operating effectively. Highways, arterial streets,...