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Posted 25 November 2015 - 06:23 PM
Tribune-Review, Pittsburgh, PA 11/25 2 pm:
Derailment impacting Amtrak service eastbound from Pittsburgh
A freight train derailment around Harrisburg caused an interruption in Amtrak service from Pittsburgh heading east Wednesday afternoon.
Two cars of a Norfolk Southern train lost contact with the track. . . .
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Posted 26 November 2015 - 08:03 PM
PennLive.com, 11/25:
2 freight train cars derail, causing delays to Amtrak service to Harrisburg
Two empty Norfolk Southern freight cars derailed on tracks near the Harrisburg Transportation Center Wednesday, limiting Amtrak access to the train station.
Dave Pidgeon, a spokesman for Norfolk Southern, said the empty train cars derailed Wednesday afternoon. He said he had not arrived at the scene to determine how severe or how long the delays would be.
Mike Tolbert, an Amtrak spokesman, said the delays are affecting trains No. 42 and 43, which travel from New York to Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh to New York, respectively. Tolbert said passengers affected will take buses from Harrisburg to Rockville and vice versa in order to get to their respective destinations.
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Posted 26 November 2015 - 08:11 PM
PennLive.com, 11/26:
Harrisburg train derailment cripples Thanksgiving travel plans for hundreds
HARRISBURG – Some took it as well as they could.
Others who had their travel plans derailed the day before Thanksgiving, typically the busiest day of travel of the year, weren't quite as understanding.
"I'm pissed off," said Cassie Williams of Harrisburg, who waited for a bus from the Harrisburg Transportation Center to an alternate train stop after a more than two-hour delay to Pittsburgh on late Wednesday afternoon.
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