{"id":247481,"date":"2026-05-29T09:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T09:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/247481\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T09:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T09:50:13","slug":"nj-transit-lirr-suspended-at-penn-station-due-to-train-car-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/247481\/","title":{"rendered":"NJ Transit, LIRR suspended at Penn Station due to train car fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A train car fire that erupted early Friday morning has shut down <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/video\/nj-transit-bus-driver-8-passengers-injured-in-collision\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NJ Transit<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/lirr-strike-refund\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Long Island Rail Road<\/a> service at Penn Station.<\/p>\n<p>The overnight fire is growing into a major commuter headache for thousands of people trying to get into New York City for work.<\/p>\n<p>What we know<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews are at the scene after the FDNY declared a two-alarm fire inside the station. The video showed a chaotic scene with a massive response.<\/p>\n<p>Transportation officials said the fire was reported just after 1:30 a.m. on an Amtrak work train car in one of the Hudson River tunnels. The incident escalated to a second alarm response nearly an hour later.<\/p>\n<p>More than 140 fire and EMS personnel were called to the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two people are suffering serious injuries and were rushed to the hospital. Three others refused medical attention, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>NJ Transit train alternatives \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Midtown Direct service is being diverted to Hoboken.<\/p>\n<p>Train tickets and passes are being cross-honored by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.njtransit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NJ Transit<\/a>, private carriers, and PATH at Newark Penn Station, Hoboken and 33rd Street, New York.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LIRR being diverted<\/p>\n<p>Trains are currently being diverted to and from Grand Central.<\/p>\n<p>The subway is also cross-honoring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mta.info\/agency\/long-island-rail-road\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">LIRR<\/a>\u00a0tickets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Amtrak suspended until afternoon<\/p>\n<p>Amtrak officials said service to and from New Jersey to New York and points south isn&#8217;t expected until the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Service from northern and eastern locations is also reduced.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Amtrak apologizes for the inconvenience and is providing rebooking opportunities and refunds while it works to return to scheduled service levels,&#8221; a statement read.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A train car fire that erupted early Friday morning has shut down NJ Transit and Long Island Rail&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1607,9,11,10,17250,7968],"class_list":["post-247481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-long-island-rail-road","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-nj-transit","tag-penn-station"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247481","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=247481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}