In connection with the Bridgewater incident, RVL train 5451 was involved. The engineer saw that Middle Brook was overflowing and stopped, but too late.
A worse incident took place with NJT NY-Trenton train 3881 went into emergency about 1/2 mile east of Newark Airport Station, on TK 5. According to press reports, it stopped at about 8:30 pm on Sept. 1. MM14, NJT ENG 4303, pulled the train to EWR station about 5 the next morning. 200 passengers aboard.
What we don't know is why it took so long to rescue the train. About an hour after 3881's unscheduled stop, NJT train 3883 overtook it on TK 4. About that time I heard Amtrak's CETC-9 dispatcher talking with NJT rescue crew MM92, which may have come over from the Meadows Maintenance Facility. When he learned that it had an electric motor, he said there was too much water on the tracks west of Hunter for an electric - the crew returned to MMC. Next CETC-9 talked with Amtrak KN 704, which had GP-15 575 for power. Not known why this crew did not perform the rescue; it's possible that by this time (about 10:30 pm) there was too much water covering TK 5, the northernmost of the six tracks. Later I heard KN 704 proceeding west on TK 2 to Adams, where the M./W base is. I also heard that some point during the night there was 4-5 ft of water above the rails where 3881 was sitting.
Andy
A worse incident took place with NJT NY-Trenton train 3881 went into emergency about 1/2 mile east of Newark Airport Station, on TK 5. According to press reports, it stopped at about 8:30 pm on Sept. 1. MM14, NJT ENG 4303, pulled the train to EWR station about 5 the next morning. 200 passengers aboard.
What we don't know is why it took so long to rescue the train. About an hour after 3881's unscheduled stop, NJT train 3883 overtook it on TK 4. About that time I heard Amtrak's CETC-9 dispatcher talking with NJT rescue crew MM92, which may have come over from the Meadows Maintenance Facility. When he learned that it had an electric motor, he said there was too much water on the tracks west of Hunter for an electric - the crew returned to MMC. Next CETC-9 talked with Amtrak KN 704, which had GP-15 575 for power. Not known why this crew did not perform the rescue; it's possible that by this time (about 10:30 pm) there was too much water covering TK 5, the northernmost of the six tracks. Later I heard KN 704 proceeding west on TK 2 to Adams, where the M./W base is. I also heard that some point during the night there was 4-5 ft of water above the rails where 3881 was sitting.
Andy