CapMetro railroad tracks warp under extreme heat

Capital Metro tracks near Kramer Station. An engineer detected warped tracks earlier in the month in the Cherrywood neighborhood between Cherrywood Road and Clarkson Avenue.A short stretch of Capital Metro's Red Line warped earlier this month between the Highland and MLK stations — a dangerous situation that if undetected could have caused a derailment.

This was the first time CapMetro detected a deformed track on the Red Line since Sept. 20, 2021, when a kink was discovered on a section of track nearCapital Metro's Red Line runs 32 miles with nine stations between Leander and downtown Austin. The transit agency is building new stations at Q2 Stadium and the Uptown ATX development near the Domain.

Union Pacific crews have been seen working recently on the tracks along the MoPac Expressway. A Union Pacific spokesperson said the work was regularly scheduled track repair that had nothing to do with tracks warping. Slowing trains so engineers can detect buckling is"a prudent practice," said Jim Blaze, a New Jersey-based railroad economist who has analyzed derailments for the Federal Railroad Administration.

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