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Senator Huffines: Why it's perfectly appropriate to allow a private railroad to use eminent domain
April 13th, 2017
April 13, 2017 - Dallas Morning News - Texas Senator Don Huffines -
By 2050, Dallas and Houston together, according to the Texas Demographic Center, will likely share an increase of more than 4.5 million new residents. To accommodate that growth,...
DFW Regional Transportation Council not pleased with Sen. Burton's "kill commuter rail" bill
April 13th, 2017
April 13, 2017 - TRA Newswire -
The North Central Texas Council of Government's Regional Transportation Council has come out against Senate Bill 385 which would effectively kill commuter rail projects in the region and the state if passed into law.
Senator...
Union Pacific to spend $452 million in Texas infrastructure - NAFTA helps drives business
April 13th, 2017
Updated April 17, 2017 - TRA Newswire -
Union Pacific is boosting safety and efficiency with an approximately $452 million infrastructure investment in Texas this year. Projects funded by Union Pacific benefit Texas's overall transportation infrastructure without taxpayer funds. An additional...
TRA testifies against Texas House Bill 3440: TxDOT should steer direction of high speed rail and not lawmakers
April 11th, 2017
April 11, 2017 -TRA Newswire - AUSTIN - (Updated April 12)
The Texas House Transportation Committee held a public hearing Wednesday on HB3440, a bill to create a joint interim committee that would come up with a strategy for a high speed passenger rail network in...
Frac sand is driving an increase in railcar movements and new equipment
April 11th, 2017
April 11, 2017 - TRA Newswire -
There's been an upswing in drilling so far this year and that's translating into good news for Texas railroads that are hauling frac sand. Frac sand is a durable sand used in hydraulic fracturing....
Trinity Railway Express "workhorse" Budd DMU's going to Vermont
April 10th, 2017
April 10, 2017 - TRA Newswire / VermontBiz.com -
A Vermont company planning to launch a regional commuter rail service has purchased 12 self-propelled rail cars from Dallas Area Rapid Transit that ran reliably for years on the Trinity Railway Express between...
Dallas-based Short Line railroad operator expands to Indiana
April 10th, 2017
April 6, 2017 - TRA Newswire -
TNW Logistic Services, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of TNW Corporation, announced today a partnership with the Perry County Port Authority (PCPA) to expand economic development opportunities in the Tell City River Port area,...
The Legislature’s all-out assault on passenger trains
April 6th, 2017
April 6, 2017 - Texas Tribune TribTalk -
By Peter LeCody, April 6, 2017
Photo by Norihiro Kataoka
Passenger rail as a transportation option for Texans is usually ignored by the Legislature without a second thought. Not this session. More than two dozen...
TRA testimony before Senate Transpo Committee: opposed bills to kill high speed rail
April 5th, 2017
April 5, 2017 - TRA Newswire - AUSTIN - UPDATED
All five of the bills that TRA opposed passed the committee today.
Texas Rail Advocates Executive Director Chris Lippincott testified before the Senate Transportation Committee today and expressed TRA's views that oppose...
Texas Senate Transpo Committee hears TRA comments on high speed rail
April 5th, 2017
April 5, 2017 - TRA Newswire -
Texas Rail Advocates Executive Director Chris Lippincott testified before the Senate Transportation Committee today and spoke about how TRA is against five bills that are aimed specifically at opposing high speed rail projects now...