ABC13 Pilot Don Armstrong was above the scene, located on Old Galveston Road near Beltway 8.
"Well, it looks a lot worse than I think it really is. This is right here along Highway 3. This is the old railroad track that goes from Houston right down to Galveston," Armstrong said. "This is a highly used railroad track here, no passenger trains, but a lot of commercial traffic and a lot of tankers on this particular train. It looks like the train was coming from the north, down to the south here."
It appears that the concrete mixer was crossing the railroad onto a private driveway into a concrete mixing company when the slow-moving train hit the vehicle, according to Armstrong.
By 1:30 p.m., the Houston Police Department had confirmed the scene had been cleared.
The train went across several of the intersections, including Fuqua Street and Genoa Red Bluff Road.
No injuries were reported.
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