{"id":262579,"date":"2026-04-23T11:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/262579\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T11:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:05:07","slug":"police-responding-to-cargo-train-derailment-in-downtown-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/262579\/","title":{"rendered":"Police responding to cargo train derailment in Downtown Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police say a cargo train derailed early Thursday near Bowie Street and West 3rd Street. <\/p>\n<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Police are responding to a train derailment early Thursday morning in Downtown Austin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the Austin Police Department (APD), law enforcement arrived on scene shortly after 5:10 a.m. after a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Austin_Police\/status\/2047257220241317915?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">cargo train derailed near Bowie Street and West 3rd Street<\/a>, not far from the Spring Condominiums.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Drivers should expect closures and delays in the area and are asked to avoid the intersection if possible.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear what led up to this incident and no injuries have been reported at this time. APD said the cargo is non-hazardous.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police are set to provide more information Thursday morning during a media briefing. An exact time for the briefing has not yet been specified.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say a cargo train derailed early Thursday near Bowie Street and West 3rd Street. AUSTIN, Texas \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-262579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262579","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=262579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}