A fire in the Hudson River Tunnel connecting Penn Station to New Jersey suspended all NJ Transit service into and out of Manhattan’s Penn Station Friday morning. The incident triggered cancellations for LIRR service, with limited service returning to Penn around 7 a.m. Amtrak reported severe delays between New York City and points north, and suspended all Northeast Corridor service to points south. NJ Transit outages also affected Metro-North service on the west-of-Hudson Pascack Valley and Port Jervis Lines. NJ Transit stated the suspension was due to Amtrak overhead wire damage linked to an earlier Amtrak track car fire in a North River Tunnel tube. Amtrak said the fire began around 1:25 a.m. after an incident involving an Amtrak contractor maintenance vehicle outside the tunnel, with southbound service expected to remain suspended until Friday afternoon.
"All NJ Transit service into and out of Manhattan's Penn Station was suspended Friday morning following a fire in the Hudson River Tunnel connecting the Manhattan transit hub to New Jersey, causing a rush hour nightmare for thousands of commuters."
""Due to Amtrak overhead wire damage resulting from an earlier Amtrak track car fire in one (tube of the North River Tunnel), NJ Transit rail service is suspended between Penn Station New York and Newark Penn Station," the Garden State railroad posted to social media early Friday."
"An Amtrak spokesman said the fire began around 1:25 a.m. following an incident involving "an Amtrak contractor maintenance vehicle" just outside the tunnel. The spokesman said Amtrak's southbound service was expected to remain suspended until Friday afternoon."
"The fire is the second to strangle service at the nation's busiest rail hub in as many weeks. As first reported by the Daily News, a dangling panel from an Amtrak Acela train sparked an electrical fire earlier this month that knocked out service to the station for two days."
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