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KCS Holiday Train to stop in Hurricane Harvey coastal cities to distribute gift cards

November 25th, 2017
November 25, 2017 - TRA Newswire - Kansas City Southern's 17th annual Holiday Express will distribute a total of $172,500 in gift cards to The Salvation Army at stops along the route hard hit by Hurricane Harvey in Texas.  The gift...

Rail Passengers Petition Supreme Court about on-time performance standards

November 10th, 2017
November 9, 2017  - TRA Newswire - Lower Court Decision Frustrates Congress’ Goal To Reduce Train Delays That Harm Millions of Passengers Washington D.C. - The Rail Passengers Association, legally known as the National Association of Railroad Passengers--or NARP, petitioned the Supreme Court to review...

FRA Releases Texas-Oklahoma Passenger Rail Study Service Level Report

November 7th, 2017
November 7, 2017 - TRA Newswire -   Three-segment, 850-mile corridor would provide passenger rail service Northern Section – Edmond, OK to Dallas and Fort Worth, TX: Additional Amtrak-type service is the Preferred Alternative. Central Section – Dallas and Fort Worth to San...

Former Fort Worth FRA Regional Administrator Bonnie Murphy to join DART in November

October 30th, 2017
October 30, 2017 - TRA Newswire - Bonnie Murphy, President of Operation Lifesaver, Inc (OLI) will step down this week to join Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) as Vice President Commuter Rail and Railroad Management. She held the top post at...

UP's Dallas Intermodal Terminal gains a big neighbor in plastics / Expansion at Port Houston

October 25th, 2017
October 25, 2017 - TRA Newswire - Katoen Natie and Union Pacific gathered with supporters today to formally break ground on a new state-of-the-art plastic packaging facility. Construction for the site is now underway at the Prime Pointe Industrial Park, which...

Union Pacific unveils commemorative locomotive honoring U.S. Armed Forces

October 20th, 2017
October 20, 2017 - TRA Newswire - Union Pacific paid tribute to the United States armed forces by unveiling UP No. 1943 The Spirit locomotive at San Antonio's Sunset Station Thursday. Only the 16th commemorative locomotive presented in Union Pacific's 155-year...

Rail or bus? CAMPO greenlights MoKan study from Williamson County to East Austin

October 20th, 2017
October 20, 2017 - AustinMonitor.com - The Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization Transportation Policy Board on Monday evening signed off on a plan to spend $500,000 to study the viability of the MoKan corridor, the largely unused swath of right of way...

Kansas City Southern reports record third quarter 2017 operating income and operating ratio

October 20th, 2017
October 20, 2017 - TRA Newswire - In a nutshell: third quarter revenues of $657 million, an increase of 9% from third quarter 2016 on a 3% increase in carloads Kansas City Southern (KCS) (NYSE:KSU) reported third quarter 2017 revenues of $657 million, representing...

Houston groundbreaking: 2 million square foot complex to be UP rail served

October 18th, 2017
October 18, 2017 - bizjournals.com - Houston-based Pontikes Development will soon break ground on a 3 million-square-foot speculative warehouse and distribution park near Port Houston. Most of the park will be rail served. JLL's John Talhelm, who will be marketing the property alongside...

New study provides framework for determining ROI in High-Speed and Intercity Passenger Rail corridors

October 18th, 2017
October 5, 2017 - MassTransitMag.com - A new report released by the American Public Transportation Association provides a framework for assessing the return on investment (ROI) associated with high-speed and intercity passenger rail projects (HSR&IPR). This seminal report called "Framework for...

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