{"id":475638,"date":"2026-10-24T18:22:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T18:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/475638\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T18:22:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T18:22:50","slug":"bnsf-route-to-el-paso-closed-by-derailment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/475638\/","title":{"rendered":"BNSF route to El Paso closed by derailment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Closure at Leasburg, N.M., expected to last through midday Thursday<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>                <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-266972\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TRN_BNSF_Leasburg_1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1131\" height=\"634\"  \/>BNSF\u2019s El Paso Subdivision is closed after a Tuesday, Oct. 20, derailment of a train carrying flax seed. Do\u00f1a Ana County Government Center<\/p>\n<p>LEASBURG, N.M. \u2014 BNSF Railway\u2019s El Paso Subdivision is expected to remain closed until midday on Thursday following the Tuesday, Oct. 20, derailment of a train carrying flax seed.<\/p>\n<p>The derailment at Leasburg occurred about 5 a.m., BNSF said in a statement to Trains, and was due to extreme flooding in the region. There were no reported injuries and no hazardous materials involved. The railroad did not indicate the number of railcars involved.<\/p>\n<p>Officials in Do\u00f1a Ana County said Do\u00f1a Ana Road between Lujan Road and State Route 187 was expected to remain closed until Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Leasburg is approximately 11 miles north of Las Cruces, N.M., and 54 miles north of El Paso, Texas.<br \/>\u2014 To report news or errors, contact <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trains.com\/pro\/freight\/class-i\/bnsf-route-to-el-paso-closed-by-derailment\/mailto:trainsnewswire@firecrown.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">trainsnewswire@firecrown.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-266973\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TRN_BNSF_Leasburg_2.jpeg\" alt=\"Derailed cover hoppers\" width=\"1200\" height=\"672\"  \/>Crews are expected to reopen the El Paso Sub mainline by midday on Thursday, Oct. 22. Do\u00f1a Ana County Government Center<br \/>\nShare this article<\/p>\n<p>\nFacebook<br \/>\nTwitter<br \/>\nLinkedIn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Closure at Leasburg, N.M., expected to last through midday Thursday BNSF\u2019s El Paso Subdivision is closed after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[25214,138,140,139,29108,80124,161074,8426],"class_list":["post-475638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-bnsf","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-freight","tag-news-reviews","tag-railroad-operations","tag-southwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475638","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=475638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}