NEW YORK — Metro-North Railroad says it will operate a “near-normal schedule” Monday following a mudslide in Scarborough, N.Y., that disrupted its services and those of Amtrak, while Amtrak has announced its operations between New York City and Albany, N.Y., will be “substantially restored.”
Metro-North said service will resume between Tarrytown and Croton-Harmon on the Hudson Line following some 43 hours of around-the-clock work by crews to clear a Saturday morning slide that blocked all four tracks [see “Mudslide disrupts Metro-North, Amtrak …,” Trains News Wire, Oct. 21, 2023]. To avoid congestion as work in the slide area continues, four trains of 158 trains will be cancelled and during peak hours, reverse-peak moves will operate express between Tarrytown and Croton-Harmon.
Crews removed some 350 cubic yards of soil and debris and 250 cubic yards of rock and cement walls from two tracks, and are breaking apart the rock walls to help stabilize the area where the slide occurred. Other debris is being used to stabilize the coastline. Work was to continue into Monday morning to rebuild 140 feet of third rail on the two operable tracks; clearing the other two tracks at the site is expected to take days.
“I want to applaud the Metro-North workforce for their quick work recovering from this storm and helping to ensure hundreds of customers could continue their travels via a temporary shuttle bus,” Metro-North President Catherine Rinaldi said in a press release. “… A restoration of service this fast also would not have been possible without the support we received from MTA Construction & Development, Westchester County, the Town of Mount Pleasant, regional law enforcement partners including the MTA PD, the Westchester County PD, the Mount Pleasant PD, and also from MTA New York City Transit which didn’t hesitate when we asked for buses to help customers.”
Cancelled will be the 6:42 a.m. departure from Poughkeepsie, the 7:08 a.m. departure from Tarrytown, and the 5:30 p.m. and 6:11 p.m. Poughkeepsie express trains from Grand Central Terminal
An Amtrak advisory says four Empire Service trains — Nos. 233, 235, 238, and 244 — will be cancelled “as equipment is repositioned.” All other trains are scheduled to operate.
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