{"id":262922,"date":"2026-04-23T16:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/262922\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T16:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:11:08","slug":"freight-train-derails-in-downtown-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/262922\/","title":{"rendered":"Freight train derails in downtown Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A freight train derailed in downtown Austin, causing road closures early Thursday and resulting in no injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said in a presser that a 911 call came in around 4:41 a.m. for the 230-car train derailment. They say no one was hurt or injured, and there is no danger to the public as the train wasn\u2019t carrying passengers or hazardous materials.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Austin_derailment_traffic_map_SN1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"hashed-image image\" img-data-alignment=\"center\" img-data-width=\"percent-hundred\" loading=\"lazy\" img-data-caption=\"A map of the April 23, 2026 train derailment in Austin, Texas. (Spectrum News 1\/Brandon Richards)\" img-data-wrap-text=\"true\" img-data-editing=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A map of the April 23, 2026 train derailment in Austin, Texas. (Spectrum News 1\/Brandon Richards)<\/p>\n<p>Closures included Oltorf Street and West Mary Street, Third Street near Bowie Street and, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/local\/article\/austin-train-derailment-road-closures-22221790.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin American-Statesman<\/a>, Sandra Muraida Way and West Second Street, Third Street and Walter Seaholm Drive and Third Street and Lamar Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>Union Pacific and the Texas Railroad Commission are investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no estimate on when closures will be resolved, but authorities say to expect several hours at the Oltorf and West Mary street closure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A freight train derailed in downtown Austin, causing road closures early Thursday and resulting in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1061,132,134,133,5604,1226,223,1225,27,42533,272],"class_list":{"0":"post-262922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-app-public-safety","9":"tag-austin","10":"tag-austin-headlines","11":"tag-austin-news","12":"tag-austin-what-you-need-to-know","13":"tag-christine-sanchez","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-public-safety","16":"tag-texas","17":"tag-topic-latest-traffic-transit-news","18":"tag-traffic"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262922","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=262922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}