The scariest experience on a NJTransit train

On January 19, 2009, on an outbound NJTransit train leaving New York Penn Station at 5:05 PM (North Jersey Coast Line Train #3507), just suddenly stopped in the middle of the rail tunnel under the Hudson River and the lights even went out and the whole train was quiet! That was a scary experience. But luckily, the lights went on again and the train started to move within a few minutes.

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• Jersey
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• Secaucus
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[MasterAlchemist1]

power interuption. happens all the time. Nature of the beast. Amtrak's catenary infrastructure is ancient.

[NHRHS2010]

@MasterAlchemist1 It does indeed. Two years later I was on an Amtrak train at around 3 AM, right after leaving NY Penn Station and it was probably somewhere in Queens when something similar happened. And that Boston-bound train was also a "ghost train" as everyone was asleep!

[admiralfaffy]

can u say deadspace 2 ????

then the lights come on and every passenger except you is a necromorph

[NHRHS2010]

@admiralfaffy What are you talking about? I am not a big video game player so I don't understand what you're saying

[P40BH]

What did the conducter say when the train started?

[NHRHS2010]

@P40BH "we just got lighted up so lovely up yourselves..."

[NHRHS2010]

@martin63961 The same exact tunnel? This tunnel is between New York Penn Station and Secaucus Junction.

[martin63961]

that also happened but the lights went of and the train stopped at the bottom of the under water tunnel

[martin63961]

thta also happened but the lights went of and the train stopped at the bottom of the under water tunnel

[NHRHS2010]

@Hitmonchan107 good, this situation is comparable to being trapped in an elevator...