(The Associated Press circulated the following story on July 14.)
SECAUCUS, N.J. — Two cars of a 12-car New Jersey Transit commuter train jumped the tracks shortly before 8 a.m. Monday in a remote area near the new Secaucus rail transfer station.
The cars remained upright and there was no immediate word on injuries, but rail traffic was disrupted in both directions at the height of the morning rush hour on the busy Northeast Corridor line between Newark and New York.
Tim Donnelly of Upper Southampton, Pa., who was a passenger on the Trenton-to-New York train, said the train had just crossed a bridge over a small waterway when there was an odd sound and the train came to a halt.
“Then we saw people out on the tracks and no one knew why,” he said.
A New Jersey Transit spokesman said one track was open, and Midtown Direct trains were being rerouted to Hoboken.
Many of the passengers from the disabled train were walking along the tracks to the Secaucus station, which is still under construction several hundred yards from the crash site.