The train service said it would be down until at least 2 pm Wednesday
We rely on your support to make local news available to allGothamist is funded by sponsors and member donationsuntil Wednesday afternoon“Amtrak personnel are currently assessing and repairing damages done to the tracks,” the company wrote in an update on its site, adding that normal service likely would not resume until 2 p.m. Wednesday. Agency officials were not available for questions Wednesday morning.
Customers will still have to get from Penn Station – where Amtrak train service stops – to Grand Central Station, which is the hub for Metro-North service. FDNY Chief of Operations Kevin Woods said the fire spread to three cars nearby, and firefighters had to use foam to extinguish the blaze and suppress burning vapors.Tuesday evening. “We had to have all train traffic stopped, we had to have the overhead catenary wires, we needed power also removed from the transformer.”
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