July 9, 2019 - al.com - A “positive” resolution addressing passenger rail service’s return to the Gulf Coast was approved Tuesday by the Mobile, Alabama City Council. The vote came four days before representatives with the Southern Rail Commission are scheduled to...

July 10, 2019 - TRA Newswire - Operation Lifesaver, Inc. (OLI) has awarded $175,000 in grant funds to 10 rail transit agencies in eight states to increase rail transit safety public awareness and implement safety education projects and campaigns. Two Texas...

July 10, 2019 - narcity.com - Have you ever wanted to step back in time to when people would spend the night in an authentic train boxcar while travelling across the beautiful state? Well, now your wait is over! There is...

July 3, 2019 - ProgressiveRailroading.com - Representatives from Port Freeport, Union Pacific Railroad and other organizations held a ribbon cutting ceremony June 28 to mark the first-phase completion of the $21 million Parcel 14 Rail Development project at the Houston-area port. On a 250-acre site...

July 3, 2019 - Freight Waves - Rail union workers are at odds with other members of the freight rail industry over how cross-border rail operations are run at Laredo, Texas. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) wants any post-North American Free...

June 2019 - Freight Waves - Commentary by Jim Blaze - Everything we plow, harvest or mine started as rock and evolved in time. Given enough time, solid rock exposed at the earth’s surface is broken down into rock and mineral...

June 30, 2019 - TRA Newswire - June has been a busy month at Dallas Area Rapid Transit. The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced last week that DART will receive $60.76 million for platform capacity expansion on the Red and Blue...

June 24, 2019 - TRA Newswire - In what has been described as a positive step for Texas Central Railway, the Surface Transportation Board has granted the high-speed railroad company a chance to come back with additional documentation showing that they...

Updated July 5, 2019 - Bloomberg.com / TRA Newswire - An affiliate of Brookfield Asset Management Inc. agreed to buy Genesee & Wyoming Inc. for about $6.3 billion, expanding its global portfolio of rail companies with a 120-line network spanning North...

June 17, 2019 - ProgressiveRailroading.com - Howard Energy Partners (HEP) announced last week that it has completed expansions of its bulk terminal facilities in Port Arthur and Corpus Christi, Texas. The projects were designed to increase HEP's Gulf Coast terminal storage capacity to...