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Amtrak canceled all service between New York City and New Haven, Connecticut, Tuesday evening after an earlier freight train derailment, the railroad service announced

The new bridge will replace a 110-year-old swing bridge that occasionally becomes stuck after it opens to allow boats to pass under, causing delays along the corridor between Boston and Washington, D.C.

Amtrak began requiring customers to cover their faces in stations, on trains and thruway buses Monday.

Amtrak will resume Acela train service on June 1 for those traveling between Washington D.C., Philadelphia, New York, New Haven, Boston and other cities. Acela express trains, which travel at speeds up to 150 mph, were shuttered back in March due to the coronavirus pandemic and customers were told to use Northeast Regional service instead. Amtrak has seen overall ridership…

Starting Sunday May 3 at midnight, the concourses for Amtrak and NJ Transit will all be closed overnight so the transit hub and trains can be thoroughly cleaned, Amtrak said in an announcement Friday evening

The new plan calls for more extensive repairs that will require further service disruptions — including a potential “complete outage at some point,” according to an Amtrak executive

The bridge, like the current Hudson River tunnel seeking repairs, is more than 100 years old and prone to malfunction, leading to rampant commuter delays

A man was stabbed at Penn Station on Monday afternoon, according to the NYPD. It’s not clear what sparked the stabbing near the entrance at West 33rd Street and Eighth Avenue around 6:38 p.m. That’s near the station’s entrance to the Amtrak concourse. The victim was taken to the hospital but should survive. The attacker hasn’t been arrested. Anyone...

Involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment charges have once again been dropped against the Amtrak engineer at the controls during a deadly 2015 derailment in Philadelphia.

Work begins on new railyard to store New Jersey Transit and Amtrak trains during storms.

All New Jersey Transit’s Morris & Essex Midtown Direct trains to Penn Station will be diverted to Hoboken during the weekslong overhaul at Penn Station this summer, Gov. Chris Christie announced Tuesday.

A veteran pizza delivery man in Delaware got an order from an unusual address: an Amtrak train that got stalled on the tracks for hours on its way from New York to Washington.

Amtrak said Monday that it was a NJ Transit mechanical problem that caused a NJ Transit train to get stuck in a Hudson River tunnel for hours Friday evening, not Amtrak’s infrastructure, as Gov. Chris Christie had said earlier in the day.

Multiple people were killed when an Amtrak passenger train and a vehicle collided in Jupiter Saturday afternoon, according to Palm Beach County Fire Rescue.

Dashcam video from a West Windsor Police Department patrol car captured the moment an Amtrak train slammed into an alleged drunk driver’s car stuck on the tracks Tuesday night. The harrowing event began when police responded to a report of a disabled car on the west bound train tracks beneath the Route 64 Bridge at the Princeton Junction Station, just...

If you’ve wanted to travel by train, now’s a good time to buy your tickets. Amtrak is offering 50% off fares as part of a two-day sale this Tuesday and Wednesday. Travel dates run from

Travelers wishing to have a shorter train ride between New York City and Washington, D.C. don’t have to wait any longer – Amtrak on Monday begins its Acela Nonstop service, offering direct service between the two emblematic cities.

Cory Booker’s presidential campaign manager is warning supporters that without a fundraising boost to end September, the Democrat’s campaign does “not see a legitimate long-term path forward.”

New York and New Jersey submitted a new plan for a rail tunnel project under the Hudson River that cuts nearly $1.5 billion off the previous cost estimate, as officials seek to break a funding impasse with the federal government that has stalled progress in recent years.

Travelers wishing to have a shorter train ride between New York City and Washington, D.C. are in luck – Amtrak announced the launch of Acela Nonstop, offering direct service between the two emblematic cities.

Cancellations and delays continue to plague New Jersey’s rail commuters, a year after similar issues led officials to vow to fix the problem

Police are planning safety exercises at New York state rail stations. State security officials say the multi-agency emergency preparedness exercises will begin Wednesday at 2 p.m. State and local police will work with Amtrak and MTA police.

A reported fire near the tracks of Penn Station briefly halted Amtrak service into and out of the midtown station Thursday night, and NJ Transit faced heavy delays for the second straight day

The man accused of kidnapping and strangling a nanny with a cellphone cord before dumping her body in a lake in New Jersey last month will face a judge Thursday.

Enhanced security is expected to continue around the New Jersey park where a nanny was found dead in a lake last week, apparently kidnapped and strangled by a stranger when she left home to exercise two weekends ago. Calling the death of 45-year-old Carolina Cano a “stranger on stranger attack,” Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop reaffirmed Monday the increased security...

A man was charged Sunday with murder and kidnapping in the death of a nanny whose body was dumped in a New Jersey lake just a block from her home, prosecutors said.

A nanny pulled dead from a park lake a block from her home may have been strangled and dumped in the water.

An Amtrak worker killed himself in a Cadillac SUV after shooting his supervisor at the railroad’s Sunnyside Yard in Queens and fleeing the scene Thursday, officials say.

A New Yorker who urged leniency for the teenager who nearly killed her in 2004 by throwing a frozen turkey through her car windshield has died. Victoria Ruvolo was 59 years old.

An Amtrak train derailed in New York Penn Station, NJ Transit tweeted early Saturday morning, forcing the diversion of some trains.

A $13 billion project to build a new rail tunnel between New York and New Jersey received another blow from federal authorities Friday in the form of a rating that continues to make it ineligible for critical grant funding.

An employment post for a part-time nanny on a site used by millions of people to find part- and full-time child care is raising questions about what parents can and can’t say in those job descriptions.

Two congressmen announced Monday they are filing legislation to force federal rail authorities to issue a contingency plan in the event the century-old tunnel between New Jersey and New York has a major failure, the latest attempt to gain traction for a project to build a new passage under the Hudson River.

Authorities in Northern California have reopened the roads into two towns cut off for days by a rain-swollen river and residents and work crews have started cleaning up the muck that flooding left behind.

Floodwaters that turned two Northern California wine country communities into islands reachable only by boat began receding Thursday as a rain-engorged river finally peaked after swamping thousands of homes and businesses.

Nearly 200 people were stuck on an Amtrak train in rural eastern Oregon for two nights after it hit a tree that fell onto the tracks in a snowed-in city dealing with power outages. The Amtrak Coast Starlight train was near Eugene, Oregon, on its way to Los Angeles from Seattle Sunday evening when it struck the tree. None of...

Tilting trains? It might sound strange, but Amtrak’s new Acela line trains that lean into curves and bends will shave time off trips, and they plan to roll them out over the next couple of years.

A Harlem mother desperate to escape her cramped, bug-infested public housing apartment invited I-Team cameras to chronicle her life for an entire night — from 5 p.m. to 5 a.m.

Because it is impossible to know how long the 108-year-old Hudson River tunnel walls can last before a catastrophic failure, New York and New Jersey lawmakers have joined Amtrak, imploring the Trump administration to greenlight the new tunnel. But for months, the project has been stalled.

New Jersey Transit says it has paid $182 million to Amtrak to make good on missed payments for use of the Northeast Corridor line.

New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker entered the Democratic presidential race announcing he is running for president.

MTA officials say there’s now a deal with Amtrak to move forward on four Bronx stations for Metro North, with the first ever Metro North service to New York Penn Station.

Bitter cold is setting in after a major winter storm blanketed a wide swath of the country in snow, sleet and rain this weekend, creating dangerously icy conditions that promise to complicate cleanup efforts and make travel challenging on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Some of the coldest temperatures felt so far this season started to set in across the...

Multiple LIRR trains will be canceled or diverted for infrastructure projects next year — including the East Side Access megaproject that sources say is more than four years away from completion.

The MTA announced today that multiple trains will be cancelled or diverted ahead of multiple infrastructure projects taking place in the coming months.

NJ Transit trains in and out of Penn Station New York were experiencing up to 90-minute delays due to a malfunction on the Portal Bridge that caused it to get stuck in an open position.

Airlines canceled dozens of flights on Wednesday in the Southern U.S. as “life-threatening” Hurricane Michael approached Florida’s Gulf Coast, packing 140 mph wind. The Category 4 storm was expected to make landfall on Wednesday. Federal forecasters warned that the storm could cause severe flooding along the Florida Panhandle and the Alabama coast as well as bring heavy rain through the...

Trains traveling into and out of Penn Station were operating on a 30-minute delay Saturday morning after wire problems temporarily suspended service, officials said.

After Amtrak — the owner and landlord of New York’s Penn Station — announced in April that it’s fixing tracks and switches at the crumbling transit hub, many commuters were bracing for the worst.

New Jersey Transit will not meet the December 31 deadline to have a crucial safety system known as Positive Train Control up and running, Executive Director Kevin Corbett told News 4 New York on Tuesday.

Storms made an abject mess of the evening commute Tuesday, as Metro-North suspended all its lines out of Grand Central Terminal, and some of those commuter headaches are lingering into Wednesday morning.

There are several suspensions, service changes and delays on at least three Metro-North train lines after powerful storms wrecked havoc on the rails on Tuesday.

New Jersey Transit says limited service has been restored in and out of Penn Station following an earlier train derailment at the nation’s busiest train station.

This summer’s overhaul of the tracks below Penn Station has gone so smoothly that an Amtrak official said the transit agency is more likely than ever to push for future repairs next year — that means more fixes to the station’s aging infrastructure, but also more service disruptions for the thousands of commuters who pass through America’s busiest rail station...

The audit performed by Amtrak’s inspector general found several security vulnerabilities including fencing issues, open doors and a lax security badge system.

NJ Transit trains in and out of New York Penn Station faced massive delays due to Amtrak overhead wire problems for most of the day Monday.

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A long-delayed MTA Megaproject known as East Side Access will cost $11.1 billion instead of the prior estimate of $10.2 billion, the NBC 4 I-Team has learned.

Actor and comedian T.J. Miller was arrested Monday for allegedly calling 911 to report a fake bomb threat while aboard a New York City-bound Amtrak train last month, federal investigators said Tuesday.

A Long Island woman died while shoveling snow Wednesday, marking the fourth storm-related tri-state death from the latest nor’easter.

The tri-state, for the fourth time this month, is digging out after yet another nor’easter in less than three weeks clobbered the region for more than 24 hours, burying the area under swirling snow, knocking out power to thousands and crippling Wednesday’s commute.

The fourth nor’easter in less than three weeks tore into the tri-state area Wednesday, burying parts of New York City under more than a foot of snow and creating whiteout conditions on Long Island.

A sheriff’s office in Pennsylvania has issued a wanted poster for Punxsutawney Phil, citing the groundhog’s deception for a six-more-weeks-of-winter promise that failed as the fourth nor’easter of the month hit the East Coast on the second day of spring.

Storm Team 4 is closely monitoring the development of another possible nor’easter – the fourth in about 18 days – that could slam the tri-state with rain, snow and strong winds on the first day of spring.

The latest track for what could be the fourth nor’easter to hit the tri-state in less than a month, this time landing on the first day of spring, includes potentially good news for the region.

Amtrak is considering suspending service on tracks that don’t have sophisticated speed controls by a Dec. 31 deadline, the railroad’s top executive said Thursday, threatening to disrupt operations across the U.S. in a push to strengthen safety after a series of deadly wrecks. President and CEO Richard Anderson told a House subcommittee that Amtrak is worried passengers are being put...

Federal investigators are still looking at how CSX railway crews routed an Amtrak train into a parked freight train in Cayce, South Carolina, last weekend. But even if CSX should bear sole responsibility for the accident, Amtrak will likely end up paying crash victims’ legal claims with public money. Amtrak pays for accidents it didn’t cause because of secretive agreements...

It’s been a complete nightmare for NJ Transit riders.

The railroad industry is playing down expectations that a safety technology that could have prevented recent deadly train crashes will be in operation across the United States by the end of the year. Indeed, freight and commuter rail officials speak as if there never was any plan to complete their work on the technology known as positive train control, or...

An Amtrak engineer was ordered Tuesday to stand trial for a deadly 2015 derailment in Philadelphia as a judge reinstated involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment charges.

Federal investigators are trying to figure out why a switch was in the wrong position, sending an Amtrak train into a freight train and killing a conductor and an engineer in South Carolina.

An Amtrak train that crashed head-on into a parked freight train in South Carolina early Sunday, killing two crew members and injuring 116 people, had been given verbal approval to proceed down the track, sources said.

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A massive building fire near the tracks in Newark caused Amtrak and New Jersey Transit to briefly suspend trains on Saturday, but service had returned to normal by the late afternoon.

Rail and bus commuters are continuing to deal with a bevy of issues out of Penn Station and Port Authority on Friday, with delays of up to an hour out of Port Authority and widespread delays on multiple NJ Transit rail lines, including one sparked by a broken down train and another caused by signal problems.

New Jersey Transit rail service was suspended in and out of New York Penn Station Thursday morning because of a bridge stuck in the open position in Secaucus.

New York train commuters are bracing for a second round of track repairs at Penn Station that will cause some service changes.

The “bomb cyclone” storm that slammed the East Coast Thursday grounded thousands of flights and was affecting entire airports in New York City, Boston and elsewhere. Flight-tracking website FlightAware reported more than 5,000 canceled flights across the U.S., with more cancellations anticipated for Friday as the region braced for the extreme temperature drop expected to follow the storm.

Three cars on an Amtrak train carrying more than 300 people from Miami to New York derailed in snowy Savannah, Georgia, but no injuries were reported, Amtrak said early Thursday.

Three cars on an Amtrak train carrying more than 300 people from Miami to New York derailed in snowy Savannah, Georgia, but no injuries were reported, Amtrak said early Thursday. Amtrak spokesman Jason Abrams said the Silver Meteor train No. 98 was backing slowly into the Savannah station about 10 p.m. Wednesday when two sleeper cars and a baggage car...

A power problem at Penn Station briefly prevented trains from entering or leaving the station on Monday evening, officials said.

A plan to pay for an estimated $13 billion rail tunnel under the Hudson River raises serious concerns, including that it relies on a “non-existent” agreement that would have the federal government foot half the bill, an official at the nation’s federal transportation agency wrote Friday.

A plan to pay for an estimated $13 billion rail tunnel under the Hudson River raises serious concerns, including that it relies on a “non-existent” agreement that would have the federal government foot half the bill, an official at the nation’s federal transportation agency wrote Friday.

Whimpering in pain, bleeding from head injuries and dazed by the enormity of the crash, victims in the Amtrak train derailment south of Seattle begged 911 dispatchers for help and said “tons of people” had been hurt. Dozens of emergency recordings released Wednesday by South Sound 911 Dispatch provided a vivid account of what happened during the deadly Dec. 18...

Nearly 300 people have died in train crashes that could have been prevented if railroads across the U.S. implemented critical speed-control technology that federal safety investigators have been pushing for close to five decades, according to rail crash data obtained by The Associated Press. But despite overwhelming evidence it could save lives, Congress extended the deadlines for railroads to implement...

Experts say it’s possible the engineer on an Amtrak train that derailed as it hurtled into a curve at more than twice the speed limit was distracted for an extended period of time before the train plunged off an overpass and onto a busy interstate, a key factor in the investigation. Authorities on Wednesday reopened two southbound lanes of Interstate...

It was a given that the two pals who loved trains and spent their lives advocating for better rail access would be there on that day in history. Jim Hamre, 61, and Zack Willhoite, 35, hopped on an Amtrak train together Monday, becoming some of the first passengers to take the maiden voyage of a faster route between Portland, Oregon,...

Federal investigators in the deadly Amtrak wreck want to know whether the engineer was distracted by a second person in his cab as his train hurtled into a curve at more than twice the speed limit. Three people were killed Monday when the train barreled into a 30 mph zone at 80 mph and plunged off an overpass, sending rail...

NJ Transit trains in and out of New York Penn Station are facing delays up to 90 minutes due to an Amtrak wire problem, the railroad said Tuesday.

An Amtrak train making the first-ever run along a faster new route hurtled off an overpass south of Seattle on Monday and spilled some of its cars onto the highway below, killing at least three people, injuring dozens and crushing two vehicles, authorities said. Attention quickly turned to the train’s speed. Federal investigators say the train was traveling at 80...

A computer-based system designed to prevent train accidents has been stalled by high costs and technological hurdles, NBC News reported. It was not being used by the train that derailed Monday in Washington state, killing at least three people. Investigators are looking into the possibility that the Amtrak train was going 80 miles an hour in a section of track...

Hours after an Amtrak train derailment in Washington State left several dead and dozens injured Monday, President Donald Trump tweeted about his “soon to be submitted” infrastructure plan as a way to prevent future tragedies. But his tweet is misleading on a number of fronts, NBC News reported. His plan to rebuild America’s infrastructure has been delayed several times over,...

A pair of fires at Grand Central Terminal and Penn Station Wednesday morning have sent firefighters scrambling to two of the nation’s busiest train terminals.   The fire at Grand Central Terminal was reported in the high-rise office building above the terminal, the Graybar Building at 43rd Street and Lexington Avenue, shortly before 9:30 a.m. More than 85 firefighters responded....

A severe storm packing hurricane force wind gusts and soaking rain swept through the Northeast early Monday, knocking out power for more than a million and forcing hundreds of schools to close in New England.

A judge on Tuesday dismissed criminal charges against the engineer in an Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia that killed eight people, citing a lack of evidence.

Full service has resumed on commuter rail lines into New York’s Penn Station after a two-month repair project. New Jersey Transit, Long Island Rail Road and Amtrak trains resumed their normal schedules on Tuesday. Amtrak wrapped up an extensive summertime track repair project at New York’s Penn Station on Thursday that officials had warned could create an infernal bottleneck...

It was billed as the “summer of hell.” Thankfully, it was more like the summer of “meh,” New York rail commuters say.

Amtrak officials said Thursday that the summer repair work at Penn Station is done following a nearly two-month overhaul, infamously dubbed the “summer of hell,” that forced rairloads that share the busy transit hub to curtail service.