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Tx Lege bill filed to study high speed rail development a "red herring"?

February 5th, 2019
Updated February 7, 2019 - A bill filed in the Texas House that, if enacted, would create a joint committee of House and Senate members to look at the future development of high speed rail in the state would actually...

January 23 is Railroad Day at Capitol in Austin

January 18th, 2019
January 18, 2019 - TRA Newswire - Railroads play a major role in the transportation picture in Texas and the Texas Railroad Association will spotlight new safety technology during Railroad Day at the state Capitol on Wednesday, January 23. Major Texas railroads...

Mexico gas stations to get their supplies by rail from U.S.

January 17th, 2019
January 15, 2019 - mexiconewsdaily.com - Seventy gas stations in Guanajuato will import gasoline from Texas by rail to meet demand amid severe fuel shortages, the state governor has announced. Diego Sinhue Rodríguez Vallejo told a press conference that so far only Mobil...

Oil News: KCS to build Port Arthur terminal / Corpus Christi rail expansion / Monahans new transload

January 17th, 2019
January 17, 2018 - (Austin) - The Houston Chronicle is reporting that state regulators have issued a permit that will allow Kansas City Southern Railway Co. to build a rail and marine terminal in Port Arthur for crude oil, gasoline, ethanol and...

Grapevine mayor: City stands to benefit from Plano DART extension

January 13th, 2019
January 10, 2019 - CommunityImpact.com - Prior to the debut of TEXRail on Jan. 10, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced a $908 million loan was awarded to the Dallas Area Rapid Transit System to connect the DART to the Dallas-Fort...

Dallas Fort Worth Airport welcomes Trinity Metro’s TEXRail service

January 13th, 2019
January 11, 2019 - InternationalAirportReview.com - The commuter rail line which connects downtown Fort Worth to Dallas Fort Worth, which provides direct access to the airport, will be free to users until the end of January 2019. Dallas Fort Worth International (DFW)...

R. J. Corman unit earns Toyota San Antonio switching pact

January 6th, 2019
January 2, 2019 - RailwayAge.com - R. J. Corman Switching Company, LLC was awarded work as the automotive loading provider at four of Toyota’s North American’s locations: Georgetown, Ky., Tupelo, Miss., Princeton, Ind., and San Antonio, Texas. Corman has performed work for...

Cotton Belt commuter line construction contract awarded

January 6th, 2019
January 4, 2019 - RailwayGazette.com - Dallas Area Rapid Transit has awarded a joint venture of Archer Western and Herzog Contracting a $783m contract to build the 42 km Cotton Belt commuter rail line, with assistance from lead designer Jacobs Engineering....

TEXRail cleared by FRA to start service to DFW Airport

January 6th, 2019
Updated January 7, 2018 - NBCDFW.com - After a bit of a delay, the long-awaited launch of TEXRail train service will take place this week. Trinity Metro announced Monday afternoon that they'd received word from the Federal Railroad Administration that the entire...

San Antonio joins chorus for daily cross-country Sunset Limited rail service

December 22nd, 2018
December 22, 2018 - TRA Newswire - The San Antonio city council has joined a list of cities across the southern tier states supporting a call for daily service by Amtrak's Sunset Limited, which now only runs tri-weekly through Texas and...

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