Passenger Trains > What Penn Station looked like this rush hour

I received these cellphone photos of the mess in Penn Station, New York during Wednesday's rush hour,
with many trains cancelled and others short of cars due to an Amtrak power outage at Sunnyside Yard.

Amtrak claimed the problem was resolved by around 530pm but it took hours longer to return to a semblance
of normalcy.

 

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Too many people start threads without enough geographical information, as if we are all familiar with their local areas.  So I'll help Gene out, Sunnyside Yard is east of Penn Station, located in the state of Good Repair.


GenePoon Wrote:
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> I received these cellphone photos of the mess in
> Penn Station, New York during Wednesday's rush
> hour,
> with many trains cancelled and others short of
> cars due to an Amtrak power outage at Sunnyside
> Yard.
>
> Amtrak claimed the problem was resolved by around
> 530pm but it took hours longer to return to a
> semblance
> of normalcy.
>
>  

darkcloud Wrote:
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> Sunnyside Yard is east of Penn Station,
> located in the state of Good Repair.

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You can say that again!

Stuff happens.

Yup.  Even on the airlines.  OMG.

Is it time to start a "Rebuild Penn Station" campaign? And I thought Chicago Union Station was a mess at rush hour.

NY Penn station was a mess at 10pm last night.  Channel 5 news did a live stand up shot with residual delays making for good footage.

NJ Transit cancelled a number of trains before they reached NY Penn, which may have caused some crews out of position issues, too.

New Jersey Transit's last report on the fallout from the Amtrak/Sunnyside Yard SNAFU: 

> Trains are now operating on/close to schedule in/out of New York.

This was at 120am and was the only official report of near-normalcy.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/28/15 09:03 by GenePoon.

This isn't too bad.....honestly, I've seen and been in worst. Many who would have normally used NYP are now working from home two days a week - expanded from the one day a week!!!!

NYP is nothing but a glorified subway station largely made to resemble Swiss cheese....

Interesting that the commentator above mentioned Swiss cheese--I have seen NY Penn compared to a rat maze.

NY Penn Station during a regular rush hour is only slightly better than this. The thing is that this lasted into late evening, which is the unusual part of all this.

DNRY122 Wrote:
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> Interesting that the commentator above mentioned
> Swiss cheese--I have seen NY Penn compared to a
> rat maze.

I hope that comparison favored the maze.  At least the rats get a nice reward when they're done.

LIRR passengers are far more street-wise in finding work-arounds than NJT passengers. They know how to get to Jamaica, Woodside  or Atlantic Terminal by subway, or if all else fails, head to their Aunt's place in Queens. But they have more options.

When NJT sends Midtown Direct trains to Hoboken, passengers act a bewildered as though they were dropped in Peking Central. 
Taking PATH to Newark or Hoboken, or to PABT and take the "competing" NJT or Private bus to their community, they are clueless, even though all tickets were cross-honored with everybody.