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Amtrak, TXDOT to study new service between Shreveport and D/FW

Amtrak and the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) have agreed on the scope of a feasibility study for new Amtrak service between Bossier City-Shreveport in Northwest Louisiana and along the Interstate 20 corridor to Dallas and Fort Worth. TxDOT and Amtrak officials joined members of …

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TEXRAIL gets federal approval to start preliminary engineering and design

Another commuter rail line appears headed for North Texas. The Federal Transit Administration gave the okay in March to start preliminary engineering and design for TEXRail, a proposed $758 million commuter line along 37 miles of the Cotton Belt corridor stretching from far Southwest Fort …

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