{"id":315179,"date":"2026-05-30T07:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T07:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/315179\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T07:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T07:13:15","slug":"train-cars-lean-off-houston-overpass-friday-morning-video-shows-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/315179\/","title":{"rendered":"Train cars lean off Houston overpass Friday morning, video shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Multiple train cars were leaning off the edge of an overpass on Hempstead Road following an incident Friday morning, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/houstontranstar\/status\/2060413558790209839\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Houston TranStar;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Houston TranStar&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Houston TranStar<\/a> post on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Motorists are being advised to avoid the area and take alternate routes during the road closure which is expected to an &#8220;extended period of time&#8221; to clear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Houston police said the incident occurred at around 8:22 a.m. Friday morning, according to\u00a0KHOU, which shared a video showing several train cars that appeared to be dangling off the edge of Hempstead Rd.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At about 12:30\u00a0p.m. Houston TranStar shared a post saying that the derailment had shut down traffic at Hempstead Road and Washington Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is a developing story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/subscription.houstonchronicle.com\/checkout\/2016\/4022\/?origin=acquisition&amp;ipid=article&amp;variant=yahoo2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:There\u2019s more to Houston with the Chronicle. 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Subscribe today for just 25\u00a2.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/trending\/article\/train-overpass-hempstead-22282615.php?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=yahoo_syndication\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Train cars lean off Houston overpass Friday morning, video shows;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Train cars lean off Houston overpass Friday morning, video shows&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Train cars lean off Houston overpass Friday morning, video shows<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Multiple train cars were leaning off the edge of an overpass on Hempstead Road following an incident Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[67387,99499,56,3747,58,57,72603,113313],"class_list":["post-315179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-friday-morning","tag-hempstead-road","tag-houston","tag-houston-chronicle","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-overpass","tag-train-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315179","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=315179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}