Commuter Rail Delay Discussion

Want to make new friends with a similar outlook on life? Be in Penn Station New York when there is a service disruption.
http://abc7ny.com/news/overhead-wires-c ... it/867559/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Due to a trespassers strike at S. Orange, M&E service is delayed up to an hour. For example, 0429 is 49 minutes late; 6343 came in just now a bit less than an hour late.

Gladstone Branch wrote:Due to a trespassers strike at S. Orange, M&E service is delayed up to an hour. For example, 0429 is 49 minutes late; 6343 came in just now a bit less than an hour late.

Police tend to tie up tracks for a couple of hours while they investigate fatalities.

Yesterday (April18th) Amtrak signal problems knocked westbound trains out of Newark. Ditto this morning, signal problems between Trenton and Newark, causing massive delays. This afternoon we had a brush fire east of Newark. My guess would be the meadows. Service suspended between Newark and New York for a few hours.
From NJ.com http://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/index.s ... in_se.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

philipmartin wrote:Yesterday (April18th) Amtrak signal problems knocked westbound trains out of Newark. Ditto this morning, signal problems between Trenton and Newark, causing massive delays. This afternoon we had a brush fire east of Newark. My guess would be the meadows. Service suspended between Newark and New York for a few hours.
From NJ.com http://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/index.s ... in_se.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

From nj.com "Working on the railroad." (My title.)

Truck got in the wires on the HBLR. It's taking a few days to get it reparerd. http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2016 ... uspen.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Here's a little more information on it.
http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2016 ... day_n.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

3221, a New York - Long Brsnch train which comes back from LB as 3232, broke down in New York; never made it out of the station. The train after it, 3507, a NY - South Amboy train ran all the way to LB, and became 3232 there. They cancelled 3508 which is 3507's normal run back to NY.

Bad day on the Gladstone. 6410 broke down in Lyons this morning. 0412 and 0414 are behind it with delays of an hour each.

Northeast Corridor shut down at Elizabeth, NJ, at around 8pm Sunday, Sept. 18, 2016, until around 5:30am the next morning, account bombs found in the area.
According to a news report it is believed that the man who planted the bombs in the Chelsea section of Manhattan, Ahmad Khan Rahami, transported them from Elizabeth to New York on an NJ Transit train.

Ahmad Rahami train rides, from ABC 7NY.COM: http://abc7ny.com/news/sources-ahmad-ra ... g/1523630/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

A pair of shoes shuts down the Main Line/Bergen County at Ridgewood for an hour and a quarter. Thirty commuters evacuated from the station. http://hackensack.dailyvoice.com/police ... ss/682553/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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FRM:NJ Transit Alerts
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MSG:Update1: NEC, NJCL, RVL, and MidTown Direct trains are sub to 15 min. delays in and out
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of NYPS due to an unruly passenger causing a delay on a train at Sec.

Sent: 8:56 AM
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The few minutes before this notice said disabled NJT train at Sec. I wonder if a disgruntled passenger on the disabled train created a ruckess after his/her train was annouced as delayed?

Passenger dropped cellphone while moving between cars,per WCBS stream,passenger dumped the air(E-valve),
was charged by NJT PD for criminal trespass for starters,and for stopping the train for no reason.

Too bad he didn't drop it from the platform as the train was approaching. That way Darwin could have helped us all out.