Freight train derailment. 1000 feet of track, railroad ties, the third rail and two switches. Railroad officials hope to have it restored by this evenings rushhour but that is clearly not going to happen. The delays and cancellations will affect nearly tens of thousands of commuters over the next few hours. We call this the main line and this line feeds both the port jervis branch and the ron Port Jefferson branch and the Ronkonkoma Branch and those taken together will take half of the ridership on the Long Island Railroad. Reporter this contingency plan just went into effect. If youre in penn station tonight, there will be Eastbound Service and you will be able to get out to long island but there will be cancellations roughly 1 3 of the evening schedule out of penn station is going to be cancelled, and there will be no service into new york city on the ronkonkoma and port jeff branches. The advice, get to the Babylon Branch or the Fort Washington branch because those drains are trains
Fall begins next wednesday. We will talk about that in the accuweather sevenday forecast. How is it going . Not too long for Long Island Railroad commuters. Its 6 00 a. M. These changes are starting to take place. No Eastbound Service to ronkonkoma, huntington or Port Jefferson. That is starting now until 10 00 a. M. According to Long Island Railroad. Train service westbound is bypassing westbury, bypassing carle place. Take bus service to mineola to those stations and from there a train to mineola. Cancellations. New Jersey Transit trains on or close. All path trains are okay. No major problems there. An incident on the new england thruway north pelham parkway a disabled vehicle. I found an accident on the h. O. V. Lori, over to you. Lets get more on the commuter alert on the Long Island Railroad. Riders should expect delays and cancellations because of a Freight Train that derailed yesterday afternoon. Overnight the train car was removed from the tracks. Now there are concerns about
And it was really late. Then had to spend 25 minutes on a bus or so. Now i will be late for meetings so im trying to figure out what to do next. Reporter overnight rail workers removed the derailed freight care and spent the next 16 hours struggling repair the damage. It would not come soon enough to save the evening rush hour. Our track guys have been at it for many hours and they got a good look at the damage. I was told it was in excess of a thousand feet of track damaged, significantly damaged, third rail, regular rail, ties, all of that. Reporter with one of the two tracks out of service, the railroad canceled Westbound Service on the ronkonkoma and port jeff branches at 3 00 p. M. To make way for eastbound trains. The priority, to get commuters out of new york city. Most seemed resigned to the inconvenience. Sometimes things break and you got to adapt to it and do the best you can. How do you think they are doing the best they can . I think they are doing a good job. You can alwa
What special day oh, loris birthday. You know, bill, the earth stands still on this day as you have your accuweather forecast. Because it is miss loris birthday. Thank you. Happy birthday, lori. Thank you, billy. Have a happy birthday and so many more. Me and ken on the other hand not so much. Great day on loris birthday. The sun always shines on loris birthday. Comfy temperatures, 67 degrees. A wind out of the southwest. Humidity in check. 53 kingston and poughkeepsie. 62 bridgeport and 55 around wrightstown and 59 to we will warm back up to the mid 80s quickly. By afternoon, it will hit 87 degrees. What a nice day. Heather, we can thank lori for the beautiful weather. Already have. Lets go to the maps. We will talk about mass transit and the situation with Long Island Railroad. There was a Freight Train derailment. So, the Port Jefferson Ronkonkoma Branch is running wearing 10 to 15minute delays. Service changes eastbound after 6 00 a. M. Hicksville expect delays. Track work at 14th
I was told it was in excess of 1,000 feet of track damaged, significantly damaged, third rail, regular rail, ties, all of that. Reporter back to a live picture. 1,000 feet of track. That has to be repaired. Im told that two switches have to be replaced. All of that, the railroad is hoping to have done by 4 00, 5 00 tonight roughly. If that is not done, im told they will revert to the plan that they had in effect for the morning rush hour and they will reopen the main line one track at least to get trains out of new york city to points east. Again, that is if they dont get all of this work done in time for the evening rush hour. Again, they are crossing their fingers. They have 150 rail workers out here and hoping to have it done by the evening rush hour. We will stay on top of the story. We will have a report for you first at 4 00. N. J. Burkett, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you, n. J. A lot of people are crossing their fingers. New information in the case of a new Jersey High Scho