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4 days ago
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Passenger on Amtrak train stuck for hours near Fairfield shares experience
FAIRFIELD, Conn. (WTNH) — Three trains were stuck for multiple hours Thursday night in the Fairfield-Westport area due to downed power lines. Passengers no longer stuck after multi-hour train suspension near Fairfield The trains were Metro-North and Amtrak trains. Passengers were stuck with the windows down, trying to get air into the hot compartments. Two hundred people were stuck on the Metro-North train and 400 were stuck on the Amtrak, which was headed from Boston to Philadelphia. Laura Lambert, a passenger on the Amtrak train, explained her experience. 'There's a woman having a panic attack very, very upset, crying,' Lambert said. 'There's a woman with a cat and worried about her cat not having water. A little child has been worried.' Passengers on two trains were all transferred either by another train or bus towards New York. Passengers on the Amtrak train were able to resume service. Watch the full video in the player above. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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20-05-2025
- Business
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NJ Transit rail service resumes after 3-day engineer strike
NEW YORK — Morning service on NJ Transit's rail lines was back on track Tuesday following an engineers strike this weekend — and back to old ways as a stranded Amtrak train caused delays into Penn Station. Train service resumed as planned Tuesday morning, with trains operating on their regular schedules throughout the New Jersey rail network and on Metro North's NJ Transit-run lines west of the Hudson River. The resumption of rail service came after NJ Transit train crews spent Monday performing safety inspections and moving rail equipment into place following a handshake deal on a contract Sunday that ended a three-day long strike by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen. The engineers had walked off the job first thing Friday morning after contract talks stalled Thursday evening. For commuters headed to Gotham, however, the good news was short-lived. Shortly after 9 a.m., NJ Transit reported 30 minute delays into New York Penn Station — the result, they said, of a stalled Amtrak train. An Amtrak spokesman confirmed that Northeast Regional train 170 was delayed after applying its emergency brakes just outside Penn Station on Tuesday morning. The delays came after reports of signal issues on the Northeast Corridor line, causing delays on southbound trains into Trenton. Both Penn Station and the tracks of the Northeast Corridor are owned and maintained by Amtrak, the federal commuter railway. Other than Amtrak-related hiccups, NJ Transit spokesman Jim Smith said Tuesday that the poststrike restart went off without a hitch. The Garden State transit agency also ended its so-called 'contingency' services Tuesday, ceasing operation of four regional 'park and ride' bus routes. Details are still scant on Sunday's tentative agreement between NJ Transit management and the railroad's 450 train engineers. Both sides had described wages — and specifically pay parity between those who operate trains in the Garden State and their MTA colleagues across the Hudson River — as the major sticking point in negotiations. This weekend's tentative agreement is the second time BLET and NJ Transit management have shook hands on a wage bump. An initial tentative contract agreement, penned in March, was overwhelmingly rejected by the union's membership, 87% of whom voted against the deal. Sunday's agreement will need to be ratified both by union membership and the NJ Transit board. Both are expected to vote on the deal in early June. _____
