(The following report appeared on the Houston Chronicle website on August 17, 2009.)
HOUSTON — Crews worked overnight to clean up a diesel fuel spill resulting from a train derailment in northwest Houston.
The spill happened around 8 p.m. Sunday when a slow-moving Union Pacific engine came off the tracks along Hempstead Highway near Antoine. A punctured fuel tank caused a leak.
(Chronicle news partner KHOU-TV provided this report.)