{"id":412365,"date":"2026-08-21T00:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T00:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/412365\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T00:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T00:20:08","slug":"10-union-pacific-rail-cars-derail-in-macdona-near-san-antonio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/412365\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Union Pacific rail cars derail in Macdona near San Antonio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten rail cars on a Union Pacific train derailed Thursday afternoon in far west\u00a0Bexar County, prompting traffic control in the area.<\/p>\n<p>The derailment happened around 2:45\u00a0p.m. near LaCoste Road and U.S. Highway 90 in Macdona, about 20 miles west of downtown San Antonio, according to Union Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries or spills were reported, the railroad said.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Bexar County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said deputies were providing traffic control at the scene while awaiting the Railroad Commission of Texas to take the lead.<\/p>\n<p>Cleanup efforts are underway, and the cause of the derailment remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Additional details, including what the rail cars were carrying, were not immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ten rail cars on a Union Pacific train derailed Thursday afternoon in far west\u00a0Bexar County, prompting traffic control&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-412365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412365","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=412365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}