Updated June 1, 2018 - TRA Newswire - Texas Rail Advocates and Rail Passengers Association yesterday filed letters with the Surface Transportation Board supporting a Texas Central Railroad petition that would clear the way for STB to assume jurisdiction over the Texas high-speed rail...

May 7, 2018 - TRA Newswire - Texas Central has petitioned the Surface Transportation Board to reopen STB Docket 36025, which if approved, would give the builders of the bullet train project the authority to operate under broader federal law. Texas Central,...

May 5, 2018 - TRA Opinion - Summer rail season goes full steam ahead starting May 26th at the Texas State Railroad, one of the treasures of railroading in the Lone Star state. Rare steam locomotives of the historic Golden Age...

May 4, 2018 - Bloomberg - Permian crude prices steeply discounted relative to Houston Oil and sand competing for same Permian rail resources Oil producers may be getting in their own way in the race to pump crude from the fertile...

May 4, 2018 - TRA Newswire -   DALLAS  – Developers of Texas’ high-speed train have forged an agreement with Amtrak, allowing passengers to use Amtrak’s reservation system to buy tickets for through travel on both the Texas Bullet Train and Amtrak’s...

May 2, 2018 - TRA Newswire - Bechtel, with deep Texas roots, will support high-speed train project’s delivery to implementation phase Selection of global engineering giant marks latest addition of industry expertise on Houston-to-North Texas line Texas Central, developers of the...

Updated to April 30, 2018 - TRA Newswire - Texas Rail Advocates has learned that Amtrak will be running its Marshall and Texarkana stations without any paid staff sometime after June 1. Marshall Depot Board members will hold a news conference, scheduled for...

April 25, 2018 - Progressive Railroading - ansas City Southern yesterday announced a new weekly intermodal service between the Port of New Orleans and Wylie, Texas, will begin in May. The Class I previously offered intermodal service in the lane, but it was discontinued following...

April 26, 2018 - TRA Newswire - Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE: UNP) today reported 2018 first quarter net income of $1.3 billion, or a first-quarter record $1.68 per diluted share. This compares to about $1.1 billion, or $1.32 per diluted share,...

April 26, 2018 - TRA Newswire - Union Pacific continues to make strides implementing positive train control (PTC). The company anticipates it will meet all required deadlines for installing PTC on its network. As allowed by federal law, Union Pacific will...