Austin
No light rail in Austin yet but Capital Metro is pushing for a Regio-Sprinter. 
Capital Metro Official Home Page
David Villa's Capital Metro Unofficial Home Page
Light Rail -Choo Choo to Debt
Discussion forum for light rail in Austin
Light Rail Now home page, Austin's pro-ligt rail grassroots org
Map of proposed LRT route from lightrail.com

A word from the page's webmaster about the proposed Austin LRT:

Capital Metro has enormous reserves.  Funds are being set aside from the transit authority's 1-cent share of the sales tax, and the tax base is growing.  The current system operates on 3/4 of a cent or less.  You see,after the board's makeup was altered to induce accountability they have been very conservative fiscally.  (There has also been unprecedented turnover at higher levels.)

The agency can't keep its mind made on which line should be built first. The red line along existing Union Pacific railway was a priority for a long time, but with having to put in an adjacent rail the cost is comparable to that of the other lines.  Currently they are considering hitting the major destination points downtown and just north of that, since that has the greatest ridership potential.  The corridor is not settled upon, as far as I know.

Although it is not required the board wants to bring the plan to public vote next year, yes/no to proceed.  However nothing positive is ever said of the agency and I'm not certain they'll be willing to put in on the ballot until they are confident it will pass.
 

Dallas

Our Dallas-Fort Worth Rail Page
DART page by Texas A&M's Texas Transportation Institite
Dallas Area Rapid Transit official home page
McKinney Avenue Transit Authority runs the Dallas heritage trolley 
Dallas Light Rail Images (scroll down)
Railway Technology - Dallas LRT
Cy Martin's Fort Worth/Dallas Rail Scene pages. A must for anyone interested in rail in North Texas
DART Expansion - worth a look.
DallasCam Live - You can see the Trinity Railway commuter line from here.
 
 

Fort Worth - see Dallas 
subway (closed)

Was it murder or old age?

Fort Worth's The-T official home page with information on trolley restoration

Galveston
Heritage Trolley
Our new Galveston trolley photoessay

Irving - see here
Monorail/APM

Houston

Houston's 7.5 mile LRT wasn't built without a fight. Now there are plans for 5 more lines.

Houston Metro's LRT night pics
Artists renditions of the system 

 
San Antonio

A trolley project was supposed to take place in San Antonio but like many similar proposals, it is dead.

The freight trolley in San Antonio from Don's Rail Photos
Update 2/1/2000: Citizens \voted against on a 55 mile LRT system which gained approval of the city fathers (padres?) and businesses. Read all about it here.
Keep San Antonion Moving, a local pro-light rail grassroots organization

Up until the late 1990s, there was a museum trolley running in San Antonio. Even it went the way of the Alamo. Rumor has it that an active freight trolley line still plies the path on infrequent occassions.

Dead Lines
El Paso Streetcars Home Page
El Paso Streetcar Bulletin Board

APTA's links to public transit authorities in Texas

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