{"id":127738,"date":"2026-02-09T17:19:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T17:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/127738\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T17:19:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T17:19:17","slug":"amtrak-overhead-wire-problems-delay-nj-transit-trains-to-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/127738\/","title":{"rendered":"Amtrak overhead wire problems delay NJ Transit trains to New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/\" title=\"Navigate to News\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a>Published: Feb. 09, 2026, 8:28 a.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Amtrak wire problems delay NJ Transit commuters \" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/DTSU5Q635ZAG7CBJTEDUEGKJBA.jpg\"  \/>A Trenton Bound NJ Transit train leaves Elizabeth station on the Northeast Corridor line  this week in a file phot. Commuters faced 60 minute delays Monday morning due to Amtrak overhead wire problems.SL<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"3EUPRRBN5BEU5OADGWBJM6PXMM\">Amtrak overhead wire problems and a disabled train caused 60-minute delays on NJ Transit rail lines to and from New York on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"PSLTJKYBW5E3HBPGKC36TWA3FE\">Commuters faced double trouble \u2014 a train that broke down near Newark around 7:30 a.m. and overhead wire problems on the Northeast Corridor line, according to agency alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"5HQAE5MLGZCQPFWIDZBZ5GLTCI\">NJ Transit police and a rescue train were sent to take passengers off the disabled train. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"4NQGMCYMDRGX7BTGIYFQUKVVIA\">PATH is cross honoring NJ Transit rail tickets at Newark, Hoboken and 33rd Street. However commuters faced delays on PATH\u2019s Newark-World Trade center line due to a police investigation at Harrison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"4EPZIARDCRHBTEBM25BUUZWKXA\">The Northeast Corridor is owned by Amtrak and NJ Transit leases space on it for commuter trains.<\/p>\n<p>Larry Higgs is the transportation and commuting reporter at NJ.com and the Star-Ledger, covering a wide range of topics affecting how we travel in one of the most congested states in the country. Whether on&#8230; more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NewsPublished: Feb. 09, 2026, 8:28 a.m.A Trenton Bound NJ Transit train leaves Elizabeth station on the Northeast Corridor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-127738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}