Friday, Nov. 27, 2009 By GORDON DICKSON / Fort Worth Star-Telegram Proposals to unclog freight train traffic near downtown Fort Worth and reintroduce streetcar...
Mon, Nov 23, 2009 Michael Lindenberger/Reporter Dallas Morning News The Texas Department of Transportation has hired its first director of the new rail...
November 23, 2009 - Gordon Dickson - Fort Worth Star-Telegram A Southlake man has been picked to help make Texas more competitive in the race for federal...
News Release (Dallas) - November 23, 2009 The long awaited creation of a Rail Division within the Texas Department of Transportation and naming of it's first...
BY LESLIE WIMMER - Fort Worth Business Press November 16, 2009 Area transportation officials are overhauling the Texas Local Option Transportation Act, which...
AP) – 11/16/09 LEVELLAND, Texas — A $8.6 million industrial rail park will soon be built in the rural West Texas town of Levelland. Dave Quinn is executive...
November 16, 2009 By ED HOUSEWRIGHT / The Dallas Morning News The towns of Nevada and Josephine haven't seen the manic growth experienced by much of Collin...
A rail district by any other name still needs money. Lone Star Rail District is new moniker for agency hoping to operate passenger rail from Georgetown to San...
Thursday, 05 November 2009 - Lonsstartexasnews.com A new proposal for high speed rail linking the state's major cities is being floated again, this time by a...
News on progress of $20M railroad project has been scarce since May BY DAVID TEWES - Victoria Advocate November 5, 2009 FACTS ABOUT BYPASS PLANS Construction...
Thursday, November 5, 2009, 1:26pm CST | Modified: Thursday, November 5, 2009, 2:00pm Austin Business Journal The Austin-San Antonio Rail District changed...
Nov. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Warren Buffett didn’t just buy a railroad when he announced his purchase of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. He hired the engineer,...
By JOSH VOORHEES of Greenwire October 22, 2009 President Obama billed the $8 billion in stimulus funds for high-speed rail as the "first step" toward a...
Global Rail Systems Acquired by Vossloh International Group is leading rail infrastructure supplier of high-speed track components, signaling and motive power ...
By Ashley Slayton - Longview News/Journal Friday, October 23, 2009 HENDERSON — After more than an hour of intense negotiating, Henderson Economic Development...
President Obama last week nominated Bert DiClemente and Anthony Coscia to serve on Amtrak's board. DiClemente is vice president of real estate firm CB Richard...
TxDOT: I-35 toll twin officially dead By Ben Wear / Austin American-Statesman Tuesday, October 6, 2009 (blog note: the rail component of the TTC failed to...
Longview News-Journal Saturday, October 10, 2009 The East Texas Corridor Council, an agency aiming to bring high-speed rail lines to East Texas, has formally...
Houston Chronicle - October 8, 2009 The rumble you're starting to hear is the sound of commuter rail service rolling toward Houston. Alas, some of it may also...
Word from TxDOT is that the final round of interviews is being conducted to name a Director for the new Rail Division. The posting for the position resulted in...
Thursday, October 8, 2009 By BRAD WATSON / WFAA-TV / DALLAS-FORT WORTH (blog note: a companion rail corridor as part of the TTC was announced in 2008, but no...
STATEMENT FROM FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION (FRA) ADMINISTRATOR JOSEPH C. SZABO October 6, 2009 "We have received numerous applications from states and...
By Longview News-Journal staff | Friday, October 2, 2009 Railroads might have their roots in the 19th century, but they still are important to the area...
Friday, October 2, 2009. Austin Business Journal The majority of Austin Business Journal readers would make use of a high-speed rail system connecting Austin...
Dallas Morning News - Wednesday, September 30, 2009 The viability of high-speed rail transportation in the United States has been widely questioned since the...
Capitol Money would be used for high-speed line between Oklahoma City, Tulsa BY JULIE BISBEE - NewsOK.com October 3, 2009 The Oklahoma state Transportation...
... Is the SA Metropolitan Plannimg Commissiom the same thing as the Chamber of Commerce? If not ,what is the Chamber doing, besides sitting in on meetings.. ...
SAN ANGELO, Texas — Downtown San Angelo has been the subject of talk, presentations, discussions, ideas, plans and incentives for many years, but despite...