Disabled Amtrak Train Slows NJ Transit

October 19, 2010 7:10 AM

Filed Under: Amtrak, Delays, Disabled Train

New York, UNITED STATES: (FILES) In this 25 October, 2002. file photo, an Amtrak train sits idle at Penn Station in New York. Amtrak, the struggling US passenger rail system, faces an uncertain future after the dismissal of its top executive in the wake of scathing report on the railroad's financial management. The firing of Amtrak chief executive David Gunn, following a congressional report showing no end in sight for the losses of the system, could accelerate an effort by the administration of US President George W. Bush to break up Amtrak, the government-owned entity that operates a de facto monopoly on US long-distance passenger trains. Gunn, who had headed Amtrak since 2002, failed to deliver on his pledge to turn around the system, which has been losing money since its creation in 1971 and has amassed some 3.5 billion USD in debt. AFP PHOTO/Stan HONDA/FILES (Photo credit should read STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images)

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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Amtrak workers have cleared a disabled train that is causing rail delays in and out of New York City Tuesday.

Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari says Train 90 was heading into New York when it had problems with an overhead wire between Newark and Secaucus Tuesday.

Magliari says passengers were transferred to an NJ Transit train and the disabled train was moved out of the way.

NJ Transit commuters face residual delays of 30 to 45 minutes in and out of New York on Northeast Corridor, North Jersey Coast Line and Midtown Direct service.

The delays come one day after a downed power wire in South Brunswick slowed trains headed for New York City for more than five hours.

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