🚨 BREAKING: Train derailment in downtown Waxahachie 🚨
Happened just before midnight. 16 cars jumped tracks, 14 are tanker cars carrying ethanol.
City officials confirm no leaks, no injuries, no immediate danger to the public. We’re live on scene on @NBCDFW with updates. pic.twitter.com/fh4uBv0CHT
— Alanna Quillen (@AlannaNBC5) June 10, 2025
WAXAHACHIE, Texas — Sixteen cars of a Union Pacific train — 14 of them ethanol tank cars — derailed late Monday in downtown Waxahatchie. No leaks have been reported.
KXAS-TV reports Waxahachie city manager Michael Scott said crews remain on alert but there is no immediate danger to the public. The incident occurred about 11:30 p.m.; the city said in a Facebook post that no injuries had been reported. Some street closures continue.
First responders and other city crews have secured the area around the derailment to allow Union Pacific to address cleanup.
Waxahachie is approximately 40 miles southeast of Fort Worth on Union Pacific’s Midlothian Subdivision. It is also about 30 miles due south of downtown Dallas.
