Major train crash NJ

[Greg]

Does anyone remember how MarkD commutes?

Looks like a train on NJ Transit's Pascack Valley commuter rail line crashed somehow at (into?) its terminal in Hoboken. Mass injuries, huge service disruptions.

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Ma ... 49051.html

[Steamforger]

Listening in on the scanner app. They're standing down all first responders who are not already on the scene. The number of injured persons has apparently stopped increasing. A number of first response assets that were already in transit are being asked to stage in Washington State Park. The actual number of casualties is expected from Jersey City Medical Center in about 20 minutes. Structural engineers are onsite and it sounds like they are inspecting buildings affected for stability. Contractors are en route to begin further stabilization of damaged structure and no escalation is expected at this time.

Sounds like they have it well in hand.

[MarkD]

Train was the Pascack Valley line train, which is the line I take daily, but it was two trains after mine. I'm perfectly safe, but I have no idea how I'm getting home tonight or to and from work in the foreseeable future.

[rightisright]

Glad you are okay, MarkD.

You would think there would be some kind of automated slow-down system in place. Maybe there was and it failed...

[randy]

Glad you are okay, MarkD..

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[rightisright]

Looks like there is not an automated slow down system in place: http://nj1015.com/speeding-hoboken-trai ... j-transit/

[MarkD]

Looks like there is not an automated slow down system in place: http://nj1015.com/speeding-hoboken-trai ... j-transit/

The 2011 crash was a Path train, not NJ Transit.

Something was seriously wrong here. The yard speed limit on the approach to the train station was reduced to 10 or 15 mph a few months ago because of the condition of the tracks, but the reports state that this train was going "at a high rate of speed", and given that it bounced over the bumper on the end of the track, seemed to have bounced up and hit the roof, and traversed another 20 or 30 feet of floor before coming to a stop, I'd bet it was going faster than that.

It's gonna be a shit sandwich for me and my fellow commuters for a while. I'm seriously considering taking off tomorrow. Maybe by Monday they'll have things figured out well enough.

[Netpackrat]

Glad you are okay, MarkD..

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[Cobar]

Glad you are okay, MarkD..

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Yup. Too many around here have been in figurative trainwrecks lately to have someone in a real one.

[308Mike]

Glad you are okay, MarkD..

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Roger that!!! x10