NJ Transit Train Gets Stuck In Hudson River Tunnel, Officials Say

MIDTOWN MANHATTAN, NY — An NJ Transit train got stuck Wednesday morning in the tunnels running underneath the Hudson River causing delays on trains heading in and out of New York City, transit officials said.

Delays as bad as 45 minutes for all trains heading in and out of Penn Station were reported around 9 a.m., NJ Transit officials said. Officials did not say what caused the train to become disabled inside the Hudson River tunnel.

The PATH train was honoring NJ Transit tickets and passes at Newark, Hoboken and 33rd Street New York stations.

The Hudson River tunnels, which serve as the primary route for commuter trains between New York City and New Jersey, have long been in a state of disrepair. Bloomberg's Devin Leonard went on a ride-along of the tunnels with in January, revealing sections of the tunnels where concrete is crumbling and chemicals are eating away at the tubes' structural stability.

Here's a brief excerpt from the Bloomberg reporter's article:

As we descend into one of the Hudson tunnels—there are two, both 107 years old, finished in the same year the Wright brothers built their first airplane factory—a supervisor flips on the rear headlights, illuminating the ghastly tubes. Our train (unsurprisingly) is operating at reduced speed because of an electrical glitch, which just gives us more time to gawk at the damage.

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