Passenger Trains > SEPTA, Re: Amtrak Chaos in Pennsylvania July 13-14

Re: Amtrak Chaos in Pennsylvania July 13-14

1. It appears it took Amtrak from 1pm Wednesday to 5am Thursday to repair the downed wires*  blocking the southbound tracks south of 30th Street. This disrupted service on the Wilmington-Newark SEPTA line, which was partially running from the lower level but skipping all Pennsylvania stops except Marcus Hook.

2. Amtrak’s dispatching system crashed this morning. My morning train was not impacted on the Paoli Thorndale Line (actually early), but it appears Amtrak continues have trains severely delayed resulting in SEPTA trains getting delayed.

3. It appears Amtrak is having a separate problem between Lancaster and Harrisburg with trains running anywhere between a half hour and two hours late. 


*This all came about because we (SEPTA) turned our Lenni-Lamokin transmission line back on after it was taken offline for Elwyn to Wawa. Amtrak gave us the go ahead, and didn't prepare adequately (absolving us from any guilt in the process). When it was turned on, one of their transformers in the area exploded and the excess current running on Tracks 3 and 4 completely destroyed the wires.


https://www.septa.org/events/recent-service-delays.html



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/15/22 00:04 by GenePoon.

>>>the excess current destroyed the wires.<<<

How about the trains that were pulling power from those wires at that time? Could have been a resurrection of the toasters in New form.

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