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
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
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