Latest update via MNR Facebook:
Hudson Line Service Alert: Hudson Line Service is temporarily suspended due to a freight train derailment in the vicinity of Spuyten Duyvil. Bus service will operate between Marble Hill and Riverdale Stations, where customers will be able to connect with shuttle train service. Customers are urged to use the Harlem Line for points of travel north and south of Spuyten Duyvil. Hudson Line tickets will be honored on the Harlem Line. Please listen for announcements at your station and continue to check this page for updates.
WABC-TV report further elaborates -- it happened inside the "rock cut" between SD and Marble Hill. Only two tracks there, and the freight is blocking both tracks. Not much wiggle room there. Story says MNR called this the "worst place possible" for a derailment... with the tight space in the cut, it'll be difficult to get equipment in there to remove the mess.
I can only imagine what a major pain this is for passengers. Not sure if buses are picking up right at the top of the stairs on W 225, or out on Broadway. Either way, can't turn left from 225 to Broadway, so the buses must have to go south across the bridge and find a place to turn around before heading toward Riverdale.
The southbound trip is a little less complicated, but W225 is one-way in front of the station, feeding into Broadway, so buses will have to go up 230th and loop around... or just let out on Broadway where the regular buses stop.
No ADA access at Marble Hill (or anything else between there and Yankees)... might be better to offer bus shuttles between North White Plains and Tarrytown.
Terrapin Station wrote:Oh man, this happened right below where I used to live. I would have had a great view of this from my apartment. Oh well. Maybe one of my former neighbors will get some photos for me.
I remember you once sharing a few shots from that vantage point... those were incredible shots! You definitely would have had a great view on this scene from there.
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