Photo by Bobby Horecka
(The story version that published in the print paper that week.)
U.S. 90A is now back open in Shiner, though drivers are warned to exercise caution.
Shiner's Avenue E (U.S. Highway 90A) officially reopened to automobile traffic just after 3 p.m.
Photo by Egon Barthels
Cleanup work continues at the site yesterday's train derailment in downtown Shiner, local officials say, as two of the closed crossing in the city have now been opened.
Lavaca County Office of Emergency Management Coordinator Egon Barthels, spent much of his initial response to Friday's derailment, manning the phones, first to establish a workable detour that didn't add too many unnecessary miles to anyone's travels, and later, to gather up the necessary forces needed for a clean-up of this magnitude.
Union Pacific crews were still busy working as of 3 a.m.
Photo by Bobby Horecka.
As many as a dozen rail cars overturned in Shiner just before 7 p
