NJT HOBOKEN TERMINAL ACCIDENT THREAD

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Train has hit the terminal building.

Image says it all:

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One of other news reported stated a lot of reports of injuries and possible mass casualties.

From the article with link above - "A train crashed into the terminal of the New Jersey Transit Hoboken station Thursday morning."

Terrible event. I pray for everyone involved.


Could someone acknowledge that speed within the limits of the station is 5mph?

Agreed, just awful. I am unfamiliar with the layout. Is this the station on the NEC, or the terminal with stub end tracks down by the river?

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Terminal. It went through the bumper block and 50-75 feet into the inner perpendicular walkway.

Reports are saying the incident was as the terminal stub end...

So would an automatic cab signal stop the train before the bumper, or is it manual?

yes that is were they have the Bumping blocks

Cab signal can not stop a train unless its overspeed, the train was traveling at less than 15 mph .

Thanks, but wouldn't the bumping blocks theoretically be designed to stop a train moving at 15MPH or under?

Wow, this is terrible. They are saying 100+ injured. Prayers to all involved..

My coworker has a friend or two who were on that train.. thankfully they are only a bit shaken, but ok.

Being originally from Hillsdale, I knew a person or two on the train and they said it felt like it was going 25-30 mph, but again these are just standard commuting Joes not railwaymen who would really know what speeds feel like.

Missed this by 10 minutes this morning. Took ferry instead to the city. Only thing, aside from busses, running right now into the city. WTC-HOB path down.

How do you know the train was going "less than 15mph"? Or are you saying that if the train was going more than that, it would have been violating the cab speed and a penalty application would have occurred?

I'm having a really hard time picturing an engineer coming into a platform fast enough and totally zoned out enough to not stop. It's not like missing a red signal. It's a station, kind of big and obvious.

This just popped up on my scanner apps. Luckily, from the sounds of it, it went just about as well as these sorts of things can go. My thoughts are with everyone involved.

Hopefully the MCI responders are overwhelmed with greens, and nothing else.