April 22, 2018 - TRA Newswire - This past week North Texans representing Texas Rail Advocates and the Rail Passengers Association met with Congressman Pete Sessions in his Washington D.C. office to talk rail issues. Dallas-based Texas Rail Advocates President Peter LeCody,...

April 22, 2018 - TRA Newswire - Troubling comments from Richard Anderson, President of AMTRAK at a Southern California rail summit of 150 passenger rail officials, industry professionals and a handful of advocates. Paul Dyson, President of RAILPAC, a West Coast rail...

April 19, 2018 - RailwayAge.com - William C. Vantuono, Editor-in-Chief - Ex-Florida Congressman John Luigi Mica, a foodie who spent a considerable amount of time when he was Chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee questioning Amtrak’s food service costs, must be very...

April 11, 2018 - BY THE STAR-TELEGRAM EDITORIAL BOARD - EDITOR'S UPDATE: Thursday afternoon Regional Transportation Council members voted to approve funding that will allow North Texas transportation planners to begin studying a high speed rail route from Fort Worth to Laredo. Details...

April 12, 2018 - Fort Worth Star Telegram - BY GORDON DICKSON - The effort to build high-speed trains connecting Dallas, Arlington and Fort Worth — and eventually Waco, Austin, Laredo and possibly Monterrey, Mexico — took a step forward Thursday. The Regional...

March 23, 2018 - TRA Newswire - Amtrak trains that run on the "host" railroads of BNSF and Union Pacific scored much higher in a new quarterly report card over other railroads that delayed passenger trains across the nation. Most of Amtrak's...

March 19, 2018 - ElPasoTimes.com - El Paso $97M streetcar, restoration project nearly complete El Paso's streetcar No. 1506 is home. Amid a police escort, the newly refurbished President’s Conference Committee vintage streetcar made its way to the maintenance and storage facility on Santa Fe...

March 16, 2018 - Houston Chronicle - U.S. Congressman Ted Poe - "There is simply not enough concrete to build enough highway lanes to keep up with all of this growth" As technology evolves, so does transportation. From the days of the horse...

March 13, 2018 - ProgressiveRailroading.com / TRA Newswire - Texas Central Partners officials are striking back at comments made last week by SNCF America Inc. about the private Texas-based company's plans to build a Dallas-to-Houston bullet train service. In a statement issued in response to the Federal Railroad...

March 3, 2018 - StarLocalMedia.com - The future Cotton Belt Regional Rail is moving closer to becoming a reality, as Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) moves closer to federal and local approvals. The $1.1 billion railway will connect the Stockyards in...