WABC Eyewitness News First At 4 September 16, 2015
Freight train derailment. 1000 feet of track, railroad ties, the third rail and two switches. Railroad officials hope to have it restored by this evenings rushhour but that is clearly not going to happen. The delays and cancellations will affect nearly tens of thousands of commuters over the next few hours. We call this the main line and this line feeds both the port jervis branch and the ron Port Jefferson branch and the Ronkonkoma Branch and those taken together will take half of the ridership on the Long Island Railroad. Reporter this contingency plan just went into effect. If youre in penn...