(The following article by William Neuman was posted on the New York Times website on February 8.)
NEW YORK — Several hundred passengers aboard a Metro-North train were stranded for about an hour yesterday morning, after it jumped the tracks as it was pulling into Grand Central Terminal, the railroad said. None of the passengers aboard the train, the 7:42 from Stamford, were hurt, according to Marjorie Anders, a spokeswoman for the railroad. She said the train was going about five miles an hour when it jumped the tracks, and that the passengers would have felt “a little bump.” The first two cars of the seven-car train had reached the platform when the third car and the front set of wheels on the fourth came off the rails as the cars went over a switch.