{"id":245327,"date":"2026-04-11T18:06:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T18:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/245327\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T18:06:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T18:06:06","slug":"panel-discusses-importance-of-freight-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/245327\/","title":{"rendered":"Panel discusses importance of freight rail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A panel of Director, Business Support and Development for TNW Corporation Joey Evans, NETEX Treasurer Brad Johnson, Network Economic and Industrial Development Regional Manager for Central Texas at Union Pacific Cherramiee Peterson and TexAmerica Center Executive Vice President and Chief Economic Development Officer Eric Voyles discussed the importance of freight rail at the Northeast Texas Transportation Summit. Staff photo by Lexi Delarosa<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 Northeast Texas Transportation Summit focused on the importance of freight rail.The program included a legislative update from Texas House of Representatives District 2 Representative Brent Money, a railroad discussion panel, updates regarding the Texas Department of Transportation Atlanta and Paris Districts, and a keynote address from Federal Railroad Administration Senior Pol&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Premium Content is available to subscribers only. Please login <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssnewstelegram.com\/etype-login\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0to access\u00a0content or go <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssnewstelegram.com\/e-edition\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to purchase a subscription.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A panel of Director, Business Support and Development for TNW Corporation Joey Evans, NETEX Treasurer Brad Johnson, Network&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[223,160,162,161,56539,27,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-245327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-plano","10":"tag-plano-headlines","11":"tag-plano-news","12":"tag-sulphur-springs","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}