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    Amtrak Derailment Near Union Station Leads to Delays, Cancellations

    Posted by Harry - Today, 06:08 AM

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    An Amtrak train traveling from New Orleans to Chicago derailed Sunday with at least 197 passengers on board, according to officials. The City of New Orleans train No. 58 was scheduled to arrive in Chicago, but derailed at 9:30 a.m. just outside Chicago’s Union Station on 16th Street, officials said. Shuttle buses transported passengers to Union Station and no injuries have been reported, authorities said. Amtrak officials said the wheels of the train "lost contact with the tracks," but no further details were immediately available Sunday morning.

     

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    Metro-North trains collide in Conn. during rush hour, 60 hurt, 5 critically

    Posted by 6 Lexington Ave - May 17 2013 06:21 PM

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    Two Metro-North trains collided in Connecticut during the evening rush hour Friday, sending 60 people to the hospital, including five critically injured and one very critically injured, Gov. Dannel Malloy said. There were no reports of fatalities. The accident happened about 6:10 p.m. just east of the Bridgeport-Fairfield line when an eastbound train heading to New Haven from New York derailed and collided with a westbound train on a section of track near a viaduct that is under renovation.

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    MTA blows up inflatable subway plug at South Ferry station

    Posted by Harry - May 16 2013 11:23 AM

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    The Super Subway Plug is here. Transit workers on Wednesday inflated a 30-foot-long, 14-foot-diameter plug in an unused subway tunnel for evaluation as a possible defense against flooding such as the inundation of Hurricane Sandy, the Daily News has learned. The device was placed in a tube just north of a No. 1 train platform at the South Ferry station, which was largely destroyed when it filled with water during the disastrous storm.

     

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    MTA token booth clerk Tracy King arrested in inside-job subway heist

    Posted by alekr - May 16 2013 09:55 AM

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    Two arrests were made in a weekend token booth robbery in Queens after a fingerprint lifted from the scene allowed detectives to grill a suspect, who confessed the clerk who had been tied up was actually in on the scheme. Clerk Tracy King, 48, was arrested Wednesday morning, a day after police caught up with her friend and accomplice, Anthony Brown, police said. Both were waiting to face a judge Wednesday evening.

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    Bronx Officials Want Additional Metro-North Stations In Borough

    Posted by Harry - May 15 2013 09:51 AM

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    Folks who live in the eastern Bronx know the commute to Manhattan is long. "There are a lot of things you could do with that hour and a half to three hours in extra commuting time that we have," said Joseph Oddo, treasurer of the Pelham Bay Civic Association. Oddo said that's turning potential investors away. "Once we start discussing transportation, their attitude changes," he said.

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    Donohue: MTA sees progress from safety measures meant to prevent the death of transit workers

    Posted by Harry - Feb 11 2013 08:43 AM

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    Nearly 240 transit workers have been killed on the job since 1946, most of them hit by trains. The last such death was in 2007, which makes this the second-longest stretch without a fatality on record. NYC Transit and the Transport Workers Union imposed new safety regulations for track workers, train crews and dispatchers after the 2007 death. A group of workers took in safety lessons this weekend.

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    Pols: Let’s make a spot for the G train

    Posted by Harry - Jan 28 2013 10:45 AM

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    How about a little respect for the (G) train? Straphangers and a pair of politicians will rally Sunday outside of the Lorimer St. stop and call for a comprehensive review of the line that only runs through two boroughs. Regulars on the truncated train between Church Ave. in Brooklyn and Court Sq. in Queens complain most about the frequency of trains and bad communication about service disruptions, according to the Riders Alliance advocacy group.

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    Rabbi Harry Berkowitz is sent to soothe shaky subway operators who witness death

    Posted by Harry - Jan 28 2013 08:15 AM

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    When there's trouble on the tracks, transit workers turn to police, firefighters, paramedics — and The Rabbi. There’s no need for his full name. Anyone who has operated a train, welded rails or directed traffic from a radio tower in the last three decades probably knows Rabbi Harry Berkowitz. The 65-year-old has been a subway chaplain for 34 years. He started ministering to the men and women of the transit police force, whose trust he earned by spending midnight shifts going on patrol with them in stations and on trains.

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    Long Island Rail Road employees face bust in big copper caper

    Posted by Harry - Jan 23 2013 08:50 AM

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    More than a dozen Long Island Railroad workers will be slapped with criminal charges after a probe into the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of copper from the MTA, the Daily News has learned. A source said the scrap-metal scam — which gives new meaning to ‘work gang’ — dates back to at least 2010. Participants in the scheme sold the highly sought-after metal to a Long Island scrap yard for cash and split the proceeds, sources said.

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    Sandy's Effects Still Evident at Coney Island Rail Yard

    Posted by Harry - Jan 21 2013 12:37 PM

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    It takes a lot to turn a modern railroad back into a 19th century operation—but, about four feet of salt water, mounds of storm-driven sand, sustained high winds and the absence of electrical controls did just that. Those are the conditions out at MTA New York City Transit's massive Coney Island Rail Yard after Superstorm Sandy blasted through the City last year.

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