Work continues on Mansfield derailed train cleanup

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Aug 22, 2026
Crews have been dealing with the heat to try to work to clean up a train derailment.
This is in Mansfield.
You saw these images as breaking news yesterday afternoon.
Several railcars went off the tracks, creating quite a mess while also putting traffic on
hold.
Peyton Yeager is near that scene with the very latest.
Peyton.
Hey, good news, Steve.
Oh, there's a wasp.
Good news, Steve.
The train's going behind us.
No time to waste here in Mansfield.
We have a train going by on the tracks, but next to it, those are those train cars that
derailed yesterday afternoon.
And crews still trying to clean up those train cars in the extreme heat today.
That clean up along the train tracks, that could take up to two weeks.
But Thursday afternoon, 10 railcars went off the tracks, so now it's been about 24 hours
This happened here in Mansfield, near Seton Road and South Holland Road.
No injuries, no product leaks.
But alarm some folks here in this Mansfield neighborhood.
Their homes back up to these tracks.
Take a listen.
And then it just stopped.
It just stopped.
It just got quiet.
And I said it sounded like a train derailment.
Because when the train stops, it usually gradually comes to a stop and then, you know, it stops.
But that was all of a sudden.
It just stopped.
So South Holland Road here is back open, a good for people who go to a nearby elementary
school for parent pickup there.
No cause of the derailment has been released at this time.
Union Pacific announced today that it has it is completely taking over command of this
cleanup again, two weeks for these train cars to be cleaned up a little bit of a scare for
this Mansfield neighborhood.
The derailment caused a small grass fire.
It's so dry out here yesterday afternoon and homeowners didn't want it to spread.
But Mansfield Fire had that under control pretty quickly.
But train up and moving here in Mansfield.
