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Open House Meetings Scheduled on Texas High-Speed Train Project

November 20th, 2015
November 10, 2015 - NBCDFW.com The plan to link Dallas and Houston with a high-speed train is taking another step forward. Texas Central is scheduling a number of public hearings across the state to discuss the project. The train travels nearly 200...

Union Pacific Kinney County Railport Grand Opening

November 20th, 2015
November 8, 2015 - Special to TRA Union Pacific Railroad has officially opened their new Union Pacific Kinney County Railport in Kinney County, Texas. The mayors of Brackettville, Del Rio and Eagle Pass joined members of the Kinney County Commissioner's Court, representatives from...

Conservation group expresses opposition to high-speed rail over possible detrimental impact on environment, farmers

November 20th, 2015
TheEagle.com - November 5, 2015 By Jake Walker jake.walker@theeagle.com A natural resources conservation group has come out in opposition to a proposed Houston to Dallas bullet train, saying the venture would take valuable agricultural land out of production. Directors representing the Texas Soil...

Road spending popular, but effects can be fleeting

November 20th, 2015
Houston Chronicle - November 4, 2015 Dug Begley, Transportation Writer   It’s raining roads. By huge margins, voters Tuesday seized on every opportunity they had to give local and state officials authority to fix ailing highways and county roads. These results, many said, reflect...

TxDOT freight mobility plan asks for your input

November 2nd, 2015
November 2, 2015 - (Special to TRA) The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has released their Draft Texas Freight Mobility Plan for a 30-day public comment period.  The Freight Mobility Plan is TxDOT’s first comprehensive and multimodal transportation plan that focuses...

Texas' TIGER grant: $20 million for rural buses - 0 for rail

October 30th, 2015
October 30, 2015 - TRA Newswire (Austin) - The Texas Department of Transportation has been awarded more than $20 million in federal TIGER* grants to improve transportation services for rural populations. The funding will help replace 325 vehicles located throughout the...

Tiger Grant: $15 Million to upgrade Amtrak’s Southwest Chief route

October 28th, 2015
Ladailypost.com - October 27, 2015 WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Representatives Michelle Lujan Grisham, Steve Pearce and Ben Ray Luján have announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has awarded $15,210,143 for the...

Train service brings hope to western Oklahoma town

October 28th, 2015
October 23, 2015 - NewsOK ERICK — Residents in this town were treated to a rare sight Friday as the first passenger train in 48 years to pull into its downtown arrived to mark the opening of new service by Farmrail that...

Congress extends Positive Train Control deadline

October 28th, 2015
October 28, 2015 - TRA Newswire Congress OK's PTC implementation to 2018 with, maybe, a 24 month extension. As  H.R.38​19 - Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2015​​  is signed into law, it will extend the deadline for America's railroads to fully implement PTC by...

BNSF Railway names Austin Western Railroad 2015 Shortline Railroad of the Year

October 24th, 2015
October 23, 2015  FORT WORTH, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) announced Austin Western Railroad (AWRR) as its 2015 Shortline Railroad of the Year during BNSF’s annual Shortline Conference in Fort Worth, Texas. AWRR, which is operated by Watco Companies of Pittsburg,...

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