Train engine flames up traveling through north Austin

AUSTIN (KXAN) — One of the cars on a Union Pacific freight train caught fire in north Austin Thursday night.
The train stopped on the tracks near the 3000 block of Stoneway Drive, east of MoPac, around 9:05 p.m. The Austin Fire Department says several passing drivers reported fire coming from the train, but when crews arrived it was out.
Union Pacific says there was a “small flame up in the engine compartment of a locomotive,” and AFD said that train personnel had “de-ene