(The Associated Press circulated the following article on August 16.)
NEWARK, N.J. — Police activity along the Northeast Corridor closed down the busy commuter rail line outside New York City for more than an hour as the evening rush hour geared up Tuesday.
NJ Transit was in the process of restoring service, Dan Stessel, a spokesman for the agency, said shortly before 5 p.m.
“The police are off the tracks,” he said.
By about 6 p.m., Stessel was saying that service was back to normal.
In a statement, Amtrak said service was restored at 4:35 p.m. after an investigation determined that a drum of hydraulic oil had fallen off a work train on nearby tracks.
Amtrak temporarily suspended service about 3:40 p.m. due to the discovery of a leak of what was then an unknown substance near tracks on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River Tunnel, Amtrak officials said in a statement.
Stessel said police had been on the tracks just east of Secaucus.