Have not seen any details but a wire train east of Trenton fire caused delays as long as 2=1/2 hours . Hope no one was injured on the wire train.
SERVICE ADVISORY UPDATE: All train traffic in the Trenton (TRE) area is still stopped due to a wire train fire in Hamilton, NJ. The fire department is on the scene and working to extinguish the flames. We will update as more information becomes available.
Train 93 is on the move and currently operating about 3hr late due to an earlier fire in the train's path east of Trenton (TRE).
This is apparently the equipment involved (credit CBS):
ALL the news stories focus on the delays, the crowds of commuters, the inconvenience. Not a word about the workers' welfare.
Typical.
Here's the story from nj.com I'll check tomorrow for any updates.
https://www.nj.com/news/2019/07/part-of-northeast-corridor-shut-down-as-firefighters-battle-blaze-on-train-tracks-nj-transit-says.html
A you tube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNn_MNg-fv8
another article
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2019/07/01/amtrak-halts-westbound-trains-to-trenton-due-to-fire-on-railroad-officials-say/
Thanks Blue Streak!
According to CBS Philly there were no injuries to Amtrak personnel.
How old is the equipment? Glad everyone is OK. My family passed this spot a few hours earlier.
No further news from yesterday's New Jersey papers on-line. As I expected the news cycle's moved on and the pressies are concerned with other things.
How old's the equipment? Good question! I doubt it goes back to when the Northeast Corridor belonged to the PRR, but who knows?
I believe the equipment is not very old, although the references I found for it are now, mysteriously, vanished. Dim memory and old posts say the equipment was Italian, spec'd around 2012, specialized for work with constant-tension.
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