News & Resources
- TNW Corporation,
dba Northeast Texas Railway (NETX),
assumes operating resonsibilities as contracted operator on July 6,
2026.
- NETEX issues Request For Proposals
for potential operating partners.
Open for submissions Oct. 2, 2025 - Nov. 5, 2025. - NETEX FY 2022
Approved Budget
- North East Texas Connector, LLC, assumes rail service duties as
contracted operator on July 1, 2020.
-
NETEX Applications for TIGER Grant Funding -
Submitted 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, & 2015.
- Blacklands Railroad featured in
Trains Magazine - June
2014.
- Lovier (placename) dedicated in Mt. Vernon,
Texas in honor of founding board member, Paul Lovier - Feb. 27, 2012.
For historical accuracy, despite the sign on location identifying "Lovier Junction," this location is not, nor was it ever, a junction.
- Dyer Junction in Commerce dedicated at the
Cotton Belt Railroad
Symposium in honor of founding board member & chair, Winford
Dyer - Sept. 24, 2011.
Historical note: This location is where the remaining remnants of the SP Paris Branch to Paris, TX (former Texas Midland) ties into the NETEX (former Cotton Belt main) line. This connection was made more recently in the railroad's life. Previoulsy, the Paris Branch was directly connected to the Cotton Belt's Sherman Branch. There were a number of other early configurations of this "junction," the original being an interlocking of the Sherman Branch and TM lines with the TM connecting with the Cotton Belt main just west of Park Street to run on a trackage rights agreement to Greenville.
- Blacklands Railroad named 2011 Short Line Railroad of the Year by Railway Age magazine - Mar. 9, 2011.
- NCTCOG
Mobility 2035 Presentation(PDF format)
Presented by Chad Edwards, Program Manager, North Central Texas Council of Governments, NETEX Board Meeting, May 12, 2010.
-
Collaboration Talking Points for NETEX Meeting with
TAMU-Commerce
(PDF format)
Presented by Dr. Jason Lee Davis, Sept. 28, 2009.
rev. July 9, 2026