{"id":384916,"date":"2026-07-24T09:50:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T09:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/384916\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T09:50:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T09:50:57","slug":"summer-heat-causes-rail-sun-kink-south-of-mlk-jr-station-slowing-capmetro-trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/384916\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer heat causes rail &#8216;sun kink&#8217; south of MLK Jr. Station, slowing CapMetro trains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas  \u2014 CapMetro crews repaired a stretch of warped track south of the MLK Jr. Station this week after summer heat caused what the agency calls a &#8220;sun kink,&#8221; forcing trains to slow down for safety.<\/p>\n<p>CapMetro said the kink formed Tuesday, bending the track enough that trains had to reduce speed to 10 mph in the area. Crews worked overnight to fix the damage, but the agency said riders may have noticed lingering delays Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/woman-arrested-after-police-pursuit-crash-on-llano-bridge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | Woman arrested after police pursuit, crash on Llano bridge<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A sun kink occurs when extreme heat causes rails to expand, warp or shift out of alignment, according to CapMetro. When it happens, the agency either slows trains through the affected section or, in more severe cases, replaces rail service with a bus bridge until repairs are completed.<\/p>\n<p>CapMetro encouraged riders to monitor real-time updates on delays and detours at <a href=\"https:\/\/CapMetro.org\/alerts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CapMetro.org\/alerts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 CapMetro crews repaired a stretch of warped track south of the MLK Jr. Station this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-384916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384916","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=384916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}