Then there was this little incident this morning. This is the fourth such incident in less than 24 hours.
DOWNED WIRES CAUSING DELAYS ON NEW HAVEN LINE
POSTED: 11:48 am EDT July 21, 2004
UPDATED: 12:42 pm EDT July 21, 2004
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. -- Overhead wires were pulled down on the New Haven Line in New Rochelle, causing big problems for the Metro North Railroad Wednesday morning.
Some 20,000 commuters were affected when the downed wires caused the suspension of service through New Rochelle in both directions.
Metro North spokeswoman Marjorie Anders says the problem began at 8:30 a.m. when an empty train going to New Rochelle to pick up passengers got snarled in the wires when it changed tracks. The wires and the pantograph arm on the train came down.
For the next 40 minutes, nothing moved from New Rochelle, forcing Metro North to stop 17 inbound trains and five outbound trains from New York City. Amtrak also had five trains delayed. The trains were delayed at least 90 minutes.
Anders says one track was restored at 9:10 a.m., allowing Metro North to move southbound trains to New York City through the area. Northbound passengers were provided buses from Mount Vernon West to Rye.
Beginning at 10:10 a.m., Metro North began running hourly northbound service between New York and New Haven. Hourly northbound service from New Haven to New York is leaving New Haven at 59 minutes after each hour.
Anders says the railroad hopes to have at least one more track back in service for the afternoon rush hour.
http://www.wnbc.com/traffic/3559690/detail.html
All of these train/subway incidents (NY/NJ/CT) should be put in a folder on the backup site. Do one of you want to do it?
In all the years I have lived within the MTA service area, I have never heard of such an incident in the past.