I just saw on 'Breaking News' that a transit train has crashed into a platform at the Hoboken NJ platform. Anyone have any details?
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/train-crashes-new-jersey-transit-hoboken-station-article-1.2811435
http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2016/09/several_hurt_in_train_crash_at_hoboken_station.html
Not a lot of detail yet.
https://www.rt.com/usa/361068-hoboken-new-jersey-train-crash/
Didn't take long to cross the Atlantic
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37503920
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
NJ.com has already updated with some video. From the look of it the train ran off the end of the track. Also part of the train shed collapsed. I also saw what I think is building marble in the pictures.
One of the reports I saw said this was a Pascack Valley train.
NPR is reporting on it right now. Witnesses say there are 100 injuries or more. The train was going at track speed, it did not slow down, as you would expect a train to do coming into a station.
One person has died.
Three confirmed dead, so far. No PTC. Track #5 in Hoboken Station.
C&NW, CA&E, MILW, CGW and IC fan
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Major-Train-Accident-in-Hoboken-Injuries-Reported-395249051.html
WNBC New York is reporting 3 deaths.
WNBC New York corrected their story, they are now saying 1 death.
Train was #1614 originating at Spring Valley.
I will speculate that the train may have gone into the ticket office.
narig01 http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Major-Train-Accident-in-Hoboken-Injuries-Reported-395249051.html WNBC New York is reporting 3 deaths. Train was #1614 originating at Spring Valley. I will speculate that the train may have gone into the ticket office.
WNBC New York also interviewed a William Blaine, a locomotive engineer with Norfolk Southern who was at the scene of the wreck.(Mr Blaine' s description may indicate the Engineer may have been incapacitated going into this)
WNBC also has on air Bill Vantuono of Railway Age.
Not a good day for NJT
http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2016/09/person_struck_and_killed_by_train_at_newark_penn_s.html
NEWARK — A person was struck and killed by an Amtrak train at Newark Penn Station Thursday morning, according to an official.
Northeast Regional train 190 hit the "trespasser" around 6:20 a.m. on track 2, an Amtrak spokesman said.
No one aboard the Amtrak train was hurt. The passengers were transferred to a New York-bound NJ Transit train.
The spokesman didn't know the age or gender of the person killed.
Was watching Fox News at my local bodega. The Fox News bimbo was talking to a rail safety "expert" and nither one had any idea how a train works. "Like why did not the conducter stop the train?". "Who drives the train?". I wanted to throw my breakfast sandwich at the TV.
Now i later learn that FOX is broadcast outta New York City so YOU WOULD THINK that some of the anchors take the commuter train once in a while.
" Most programs are broadcast from Fox News headquarters in New York City (at 1211 Avenue of the Americas), in its streetside studio on Sixth Avenue in the west wing of Rockefeller Center, sharing its headquarters with sister channel Fox Business Network. Fox News Channel has seven studios at its New York City headquarters that are used for its and Fox Business' programming:"
Prayer and thoughts with those injured in the Hoboken crash. Also the person who died and their family.
Bella Dinh-Zarr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPHVnlsRkts&t=3m38s
Any news on the crew?
The engineer is said to have survived.
Bob Nelson
schlimm No PTC.
No PTC.
Surprised?
Andrew Cuomo: “It could be personal to the conductor.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa61Q8j6Cxk&t=20m47s
08/09/2011
Buslist schlimm No PTC. Surprised?
No. But I'll bet victims and their families are angry about the delays in implementation, especially on commuter and passenger lines.
lionelsoni The engineer is said to have survived.
In critical condition.
schlimm Buslist schlimm No PTC. Surprised? No. But I'll bet victims and their families are angry about the delays in implementation, especially on commuter and passenger lines.
If only they had the $! Cut trains or spend the $ on PTC? Which would the public prefer?
Commuter operations are generally short of cash. Look at the current news in your own backyard. Only now is METRA considering PTC for the ex MLW lines. Almost 2 years after the deadline. As we used to try to teach young engineers, in spite of the "no question should go unasked" think it through before asking it.
Which would you prefer?
narig01 http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Major-Train-Accident-in-Hoboken-Injuries-Reported-395249051.html WNBC New York is reporting 3 deaths. WNBC New York corrected their story, they are now saying 1 death. Train was #1614 originating at Spring Valley. I will speculate that the train may have gone into the ticket office.
PTC - you don't go down to the signal supply store today and buy a PTC system and install it tomorrow on all the field signals and operating equipment and get all the required employees trained in it's operation.
I have no idea how far along NJT is in their PTC efforts, however, I suspect they have not been totally sitting on their thumbs. I suspect the same politicians that are now criticizing them for not having PTC installed and operational are the same politicians that have defeated funding bills that would have advanced the installation and operation of PTC on NJT.
It is up to Congress to shut down operations not having PTC or to let them run without it. They are in the driver’s seat.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2016/09/29/hoboken-crash-pelosi-rips-congress-for-delaying-ptc-deadline.html
EuclidIt is up to Congress to shut down operations not having PTC or to let them run without it. They are in the driver’s seat. http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2016/09/29/hoboken-crash-pelosi-rips-congress-for-delaying-ptc-deadline.html
It isn't 12/31/2018 - YET!
NJT Expenditures for the past 12 years
http://www.njtransit.com/tm/tm_servlet.srv?hdnPageAction=AwardsTo
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