June 3, 2019 - ProgressiveRailroading.com - Severe weather, heavy rain and historic flooding conditions continue to affect freight and passenger railroads' operations in parts of the U.S. South, Central Plains and Midwest regions. Amtrak announced late last week that it has cancelled its...

June 4, 2019 - MassTransitMag.com - Stadler will assemble and build eight FLIRT diesel multiple unit trains (DMUs) and design an Equipment Maintenance Facility (EMF) as part of Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) Cotton Belt Regional Rail Project. DART awarded the...

May 31, 2019 - TRA Austin - With the Texas House and Senate now adjourned until January 2021, Texas Rail Advocates is happy to report that not a single bad rail bill that your advocacy organization opposed in committee passed during...

May 31, 2019 - TRA Newswire - An Interim Charge would allow for the exploration of rail options Move would ensure that Texas Department of Transportation would be ready to apply for federal cost-share funding and to pursue partnerships   The...

May 27, 2019 - TRA Newswire - Governor Greg Abbott has signed into law House Bill 71 that creates a regional transit authority (RTA) in the Rio Grande Valley. The bill, authored by Texas Representative Armando "Mando" Martinez (Weslaco), creates a regional...

May 18, 2019 - TRA Austin - Week 18 in the Texas legislature and you never know when something bad can still  rear it's head. After it was approved in the Senate, SB 421 is winding its way through the House and...

May 17,  2019 - TRA Newswire - Union Pacific has implemented Positive Train Control (PTC) on 582 route miles, bringing required PTC-operated route miles to 13,597 or 80 percent. PTC was implemented on all required passenger routes in 2018. Implementation efforts continue to...

May 16, 2019 - freightwaves.com - Rail congestion in regions such as Chicago and Houston may have eased for now, but the railroads will still need to find ways to increase capacity at those busy city locations as the U.S. population...

May 16, 2019 - TRA Newswire  - RCR Hempstead Logistics Park is now under development in Hempstead, Waller County, and plans are to serve "national- and international-grade manifest and transload firms desiring to locate in the Northwest quadrant of Houston with...

May 16, 2019 - TRA Newswire - More than 6 million passengers are expected to use the train annually by 2029, more than 13 million passengers expected by 2050 Train will save 60 to 90 minutes per trip between Houston and...