December 19, 2018 - TRA Newswire - Your input is needed to shape the future of passenger and freight rail in Texas. The Texas Department of Transportation must update the Texas Rail Plan in 2019 to meet federal requirements. TxDOT is asking...

December 18, 2018 - ProgressiveRailroading.com - Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) this week expects to close on an agreement for a $908 million loan with the Federal Railroad Administration's Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing (RRIF) program. The loan will be used to fund the...

December 16, 2018 - TRA Newswire - Considered one of the state's leading policy leaders on transportation issues, State Representative Joe Pickett - El Paso, said he will retire from the Texas House to undergo cancer treatments. Pickett has served the last...

December 11, 2018 - ProgressiveRailroading.com - Anacostia Rail Holdings Co.'s Gulf Coast Switching Co. (GCSC) recently marked its 10th anniversary. The company launched operations on Oct. 1, 2008. GCSC provides switching and freight-car storage services in the Houston area and currently handles about 18,000...

December 14, 2018 - NewsOK.com - Lines formed downtown on Friday morning to catch the first rides on the Oklahoma City Streetcar after the grand opening ceremony on the east plaza at Leadership Square. Hundreds of people filled the plaza for...

December 14, 2018 - ProgressiveRailroading.com - Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO) Chair Carrin Patman on Wednesday unveiled a $7.5 billion METRONext Moving Forward Plan during the Greater Houston Partnership's annual meeting. The proposed long-range plan calls for completing more than 40 projects —...

December 14, 2018 - Tom Giovanetti, President, Institute for Policy Innovation -  tribtalk.org - With a limitless supply of wasteful government spending to target, including their own “Congressional Pig Book” outlining 232 federal earmarks totaling $14.7 billion dollars, my friends at Citizens Against...

December 9, 2018 - cnet.com - by Geoffrey Morrison - With limited routes and low-speed diesel locomotives, train travel in the US seems far behind the rest of the world. That's not going to change anytime soon. Compared to other wealthy nations,...

Updated December 12, 2018 - TRA Newswire - You, as a Texan, have a rare opportunity to let your voice be heard in the Texas Department of Transportation Rail Division's 2019 Texas Rail Plan. This is the first time that TxDOT has...

December 7, 2018 - RailwayAge.com - Despite producing more than one-third of U.S. crude oil output, urbanization, rapid economic growth and congestion mean Texans could be getting out of their cars and on to high-speed trains much sooner than most other...