That is certainly a lot of wire. Wonder if it had been constant tension not as much would have burned? Amtrak cannot catch a break this winter. All trips up to that time were on time or within ten minutes. Amtrak ended up cancelling about 4 hrs of trips both directions. and the ones operating after that were 2 - 1 - 1/2 hr late for rest of day.
Yeah, I heard about that on another forum.
The P40DC on the train, 4800, caught fire somewhere around Morrisville, PA and melted the catenary.
It seems like it may have been the turbo, but no one's sure as of now. The ACES cars and the ALP on the other end were not damaged.No one was seriously injured.
The passengers were bussed the rest of the way to NY. From a luxury train to a bus!
General Explosion at its best!
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Last night a NJT train.....ACES burned up a loco and ripped down 1400' of catenary last night
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