WASHINGTON — Train passengers can expect delays Tuesday during their commute, as Amtrak’s Northeast Regional Service will operate on a modified schedule following Monday’s derailment in New York’s Penn Station.
Due to reduced track capacity, Amtrak said in statement that there will be reduced frequencies between D.C. and New York but will be providing additional stops in Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Customers arriving or departing Penn Station may experience delays of up to 60 minutes during rush hour and 30 minutes during non-rush hour.
The Empire Service (New York-Albany) and the Keystone Service (New York-Philadelphia-Harrisburg) will run on a modified schedule, as well. Long-distance trains on the Northeast corridor will maintain a normal schedule.
A New Jersey Transit train with some 1,200 passengers was pulling into New York’s Penn Station around 9 a.m. when it derailed, leading to cancellations and delays that affected train riders on Amtrak and the Long Island Rail Road, The Associated Press reports.
Passenger Tiffany Mazzone told The Associated Press that getting out of the disabled train took over an hour, as she and others were led out of the train onto the tracks and then back into another car so they could walk through the train and onto the platform.
This is the second derailment in the same station in less than two weeks. An Amtrak Acela Express train bound for D.C. partially derailed on March 24.
There were no serious injuries in both derailments.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Editor’s Note: The story was updated to indicate that this is the second derailment in less than two weeks at Penn Station.
