{"id":262693,"date":"2026-04-23T12:58:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/262693\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T12:58:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:58:21","slug":"train-derailment-in-downtown-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/262693\/","title":{"rendered":"Train derailment in downtown Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/45456468710.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; A train has derailed in downtown Austin.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Why you should care:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The derailment is in the area of 3rd Street and Bowie Street.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The railroad crossing there and at Mary and Oltorf have been affected.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Drivers are asked to avoid the area and expect delays.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">An alternate route could be to take 5th Street to Riverside or Barton Springs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">You could also take I-35.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">It&#8217;s not clear how long before traffic goes back to normal.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The Austin Police Department says it began receiving calls about the incident at around 5 a.m.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The train has 230 cars and four of those cars derailed.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Officials say there were hazardous materials on board and no one was hurt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from Austin Police Department and reporting by Jessica Rivera and Atiana San Miguel.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/travis-county\/austin\/downtown\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Downtown<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; A train has derailed in downtown Austin. Why you should care: The derailment is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1046,993,223,394,216,393],"class_list":["post-262693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-downtown","tag-news","tag-travis-county","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262693","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=262693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}