Wire train fire

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Have not seen any details but a wire train east of Trenton fire caused delays as long as 2=1/2 hours . Hope no one was injured on the wire train.

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This is apparently the equipment involved (credit CBS):

ALL the news stories focus on the delays, the crowds of commuters, the inconvenience. Not a word about the workers’ welfare.

3

Typical.

Here’s the story from nj.com I’ll check tomorrow for any updates.

https://www.nj.com/news/2019/07/part-of-northeast-corridor-shut-down-as-firefighters-battle-blaze-on-train-tracks-nj-transit-says.html

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A you tube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNn_MNg-fv8

another article

https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2019/07/01/amtrak-halts-westbound-trains-to-trenton-due-to-fire-on-railroad-officials-say/

5

Thanks Blue Streak!

According to CBS Philly there were no injuries to Amtrak personnel.

6

How old is the equipment? Glad everyone is OK. My family passed this spot a few hours earlier.

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No further news from yesterday’s New Jersey papers on-line. As I expected the news cycle’s moved on and the pressies are concerned with other things.

How old’s the equipment? Good question! I doubt it goes back to when the Northeast Corridor belonged to the PRR, but who knows?

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I believe the equipment is not very old, although the references I found for it are now, mysteriously, vanished. Dim memory and old posts say the equipment was Italian, spec’d around 2012, specialized for work with constant-tension.