Amtrak suspends NYC - BOS - July 6, 2024

Reported on the NBC network:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...oston-suspended-remainder-saturday-rcna160572

Amtrak suspends NYC - BOS for remainder of the day (7/6) - (electric) power failure (circuit breaker?)

What a mess. I m planning a trip for August. I would hate to be caught up in that mess.

Steve4031 said:

What a mess. I m planning a trip for August. I would hate to be caught up in that mess.

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This will probably be fixed by tomorrow morning. Problems in August are mostly unrelated and unpredictable. The key is to stay flexible and allow plenty of time for connections.

I was planning to take the star from Miami to Washington or New York. I was planning to allow a day, a Sunday, to take an Acela to Boston. I'm not sure what the plan b would be in such a situation. Worst case would be to rent a car or fly.

I have a friend in the company who said this is a stumper. No catenary problem, allegedly no substation problem. At least a few hours ago they couldn’t figure out what was wrong. Usually it is fairly obvious.

Guys It has been suspended since 0800 this morning.

Septa9739 said:

I have a friend in the company who said this is a stumper. No catenary problem, allegedly no substation problem. At least a few hours ago they couldn’t figure out what was wrong. Usually it is fairly obvious.

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A tripped circuit breaker can usually be reset after it cools down AND as long as the source that tripped it is still
not in play !

Amtrak website reporting:
Service Is Restored Between New York Penn Station and Boston South Station

If the outage was caused by a lightning strike the strike might have fused a not visible connection. There are locations in substations where a feeder wire might jump just a couple inches from one insulator to another. That might leave no visible indication that the wire was burned apparat.

That is the one way IMO that it took Amtrak so long to fix the problem. Now it could be that Amtrak gave all qualified electricians for the Hell Gate CAT off for a long July 4th weekend and then could not find a qualified person to trouble shoot the problem?