{"id":239525,"date":"2026-03-27T17:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/239525\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T17:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:39:08","slug":"train-derailment-near-reno-sends-more-than-20-railcars-off-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/239525\/","title":{"rendered":"Train derailment near Reno sends more than 20 railcars off tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A freight train derailment near Reno saw more than a dozen railcars crash off the tracks Friday morning. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District, the derailment happened just before 7 a.m. near Interstate 80 and USA Parkway, about 20 miles east of Reno. <\/p>\n<p>Exactly what led up to the derailment is unclear, but officials say about 20 to 25 box cars went off the tracks. <\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/train-derailment-reno-sparks.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"train-derailment-reno-sparks.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Scene of the derailment east of Reno.<\/p>\n<p>                Nevada State Police<\/p>\n<p>Officials noted that no injuries have been reported. Further, officials say no hazardous material has been spilled.<\/p>\n<p>Nevada State Police say one lane of eastbound I-80 is closed due to the emergency response. Drivers should expect significant delays for the time being. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear how long it will take for the derailment to be cleared.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A freight train derailment near Reno saw more than a dozen railcars crash off the tracks Friday morning.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[46599,121,123,122,30675],"class_list":["post-239525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-reno","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-train-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}