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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCNN Breaking: Metro North Commuter Train Derailment in the Bronx
Here's a USA Today link:
A train derailed Sunday morning at a station in the Bronx, media outlets are reporting.
CNN, citing the New York Fire Department, said about 100 firefighters are responding to the scene in the Bronx. The Associated Press, quoting a woman at the scene, is says the some cars of the Metro-North passenger train toppled into water. A woman at the scene, Rebecca Schwartz, told AP that numerous emergency vehicles have responded.
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BusinessInsider has images:
http://www.businessinsider.com/metro-north-train-derails-in-the-bronx-2013-12
...and an aerial shot from Twitter:
https://twitter.com/SheldonDutes4NY/status/407135212565299200/photo/1
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)ananda
(28,858 posts)Some of the cars are submerged in water.
I really hope they can get people out safely, but this worries me.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Many injuries, no fatalities as of yet.
spanone
(135,830 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)ProdigalJunkMail
(12,017 posts)let's hope that's true...
sP
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)passengers say going very fast on the curve.
Sanity Claws
(21,847 posts)That's the Hudson River, not the Harlem River, as someone up thread reported. I live in the area and am sure it's the Hudson.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)the Bronx to Manhattan, you are travelling over the Harlem---to your right is the Hudson. The Deegan goes on the Harlem, too. (Damn 87!)
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)you learn things.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)...Spuyten Duyvil was the the shortcut I'd take (and then down the Harlem to the East River) to avoid the heavy marine traffic around lower Manhattan.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)year there at the steep curve. Engine for this train in the back, which might have prevented further damage.
First responders, neighbors, went through the woods to get to the train.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014660954
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)...and was heading to Grand Central Station.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)...due at Grand Central Terminal @ 7:43am.
Sanity Claws
(21,847 posts)Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)Are_grits_groceries
(17,111 posts)@nycjim:
WABC-TV reports that July freight train derailment occurred at exact same spot on Metro North line.
They need to really check the rail line up and down the tracks in that area.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)Are_grits_groceries
(17,111 posts)I would also put in some kid of alarms to wake up the damn conductors before this point.
It must be easy to zone out at times even for the best.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)dorkzilla
(5,141 posts)I hope it isn't some sort of sabotage, but i think its near/on the spot where a freight train derailed earlier this year. I've never been on a train where the engineer did not go reeeeaaaaallllllyyy slowly through that area as its right where the MetroNorth and Amtrak rail lines connect and its incredibly curvy. I've taken that train every day for many many years.
EDITED TO ADD- officials have just said this is completely unrelated to the July freight derailment.
MetroNorth and Amtrak suspended from the Croton-Harmon station on down.
Thank you, Cooley Hurd for posting. I didn't know about this till I saw this post, and my little sister was going to get on the train early afternoon from Hudson back to NYC to where she goes to school. I just called my dad to make sure he knew (he didn't) and for the two of us to jump into action to go up and get her and take her into the City.
Watching live copter shots on WNBC
it looks like a horrible accident.