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San Antonio City Council includes rail to Austin in budget

September 14th, 2015
Sepember 10, 2015 - San Antonio Express News San Antonio became the third city to set aside funding for the Lone Star Rail District line when it voted Thursday to include $500,000 for the project in its annual budget. The money will...

Texas Bullet Train Moving Forward Despite Obstacles

September 14th, 2015
September 8, 2015 - Texas Tribune by Aman Batheja The private firm hoping to build a high-speed rail line between Dallas and Houston has been celebrating a summer of successes: completing a successful round of fundraising, seeing a key federal study move forward, surviving the...

TEX Rail plans include high-tech approach to safety

September 14th, 2015
September 3, 2015 - Fort Worth Star Telegram BY GORDON DICKSON gdickson@star-telegram.com FORT WORTH  A proposed commuter rail line from downtown Fort Worth to Dallas/Fort Worth Airport will be among the first rails in Texas to feature state-of-the-art technology for preventing crashes, an official...

Denton County transit agency nabs platinum award for financial transparency

September 14th, 2015
September 3, 2015 - Progressive Railroading The Denton County Transportation Authority (DCTA) received the platinum award for financial transparency as part of the Texas Comptroller Leadership Circle program. Launched by the state's Comptroller of Public Accounts in December 2009, the Leadership Circle award program...

Bexar County Approves $500,000 For Lone Star Rail District

September 14th, 2015
September 2, 2015 - SAcurrent.com Bexar County's $1.7 billion budget that was approved Tuesday includes $500,000 for the Lone Star Rail District. While the funding received a green light, no agreements are in place yet, according to a county spokesperson. Lone Star Rail...

Twin Eagle begins construction for new frac sand rail facility near Big Spring

September 14th, 2015
September 1, 2015 - San Antonio Business Journal Logistics company Twin Eagle continues to grow despite six-year low crude oil prices and the company is building a new rail park to deliver frac sand to its customers just a few hours northwest of...

South Orient rail line may get more use in remote Southwest Texas

September 14th, 2015
August 26, 2015 - Alpine Avalanche Proponents of passenger service on the old South Orient through Alpine hope that a renewed interest in using the rail line for freight will lead to a future travel boom, especially for tourism in Mexico. It...

Mexico, U.S. hail opening of first rail bridge in more than 100 years

September 14th, 2015
BROWNSVILLE, Texas, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Government officials from the United States and Mexico held an event Tuesday to celebrate the opening of the West Rail Bypass International Bridge, the first rail link between the countries in more than a century. The...

North Texas panel OKs $4.5 million for high-speed rail planning

September 14th, 2015
The Regional Transportation Council (RTC) in North Texas last week approved $4.5 million through fiscal-year 2018 for the planning, design, project development and preliminary engineering of a high-speed rail line that would connect Dallas/Fort Worth to Houston. Texas Central Partners is...

Federal grant acceptance will allow work to begin on Southwest Chief route

September 5th, 2015
Federal grant acceptance will allow work to begin on Southwest Chief route Garden City Telegram - August 24, 2015 The slow process of improving the Southwest Chief rail line through southwest Kansas took a step forward Monday after the Garden City commission...

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