Other commuter rail lines, including Metro-North in New York and Connecticut, were still running Friday afternoon.
Commuter rail service remains suspended for the day, however, as crews cleared snow off the tracks.
None of NJ Transit's 11 commuter rail lines were spared, Gov. Chris Christie said Tuesday.
Commuter rail, bus and subway service were suspended, and thousands of workers were told to stay home.
The discussion focused mainly on local economic development and Gerlach's support for a new commuter rail line.
Her goal: to make it to the nearest lit area, a commuter rail station about a mile away.
In a limited 4G network (like the commuter rail line between Boston and Worcester), it is very problematic.
This accident involved commuter rail cars built to new codes, he said Sunday.
Public transit, including commuter rail, buses and subways, were halted, and Amtrak closed service to and from the city.
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Commuter rail service remained suspended Sunday, however, as crews cleared snowoff tracks.
More closely watched as the storm approached were the region's commuter rail lines, including Metro-North, Long Island Rail Road and NJ Transit.
Some are already served by local commuter rail lines, such as Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, which connects to the Philadelphia International Airport.
And Amtrak nixed several of its scheduled runs, citing the weather, while commuter rail service in and out of New York and other locales were also impacted.
For the chance at one day riding in a new train tunnel beneath the Hudson River, commuter rail riders may have a strange entity to thank: superstorm Sandy.
Under the proposal examined by Parsons Brinckerhoff, the No. 7 train would cross the river through two new tunnels and connect with the existing commuter rail station in Secaucus.
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More closely watched as the storm approached were the region's commuter rail lines, which move hundreds of thousands of commuters through the suburban territory expecting a wallop from the snow.
Metro-North Railroad says its commuter rail service between South Norwalk and New Haven will be down for at least a few days as crews repair tracks, overhead wires and other equipment.
After a series of mishaps that left passengers stranded for hours, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's commuter rail lines unveiled new proposals Monday that promised better communication with riders with one notable difference.
All three commuter rail systems were planning to add extra train service in the afternoon to help carry an anticipated early rush hour of Manhattan office workers departing ahead of the storm.
And when they're all completed, tentatively in 2019, they will bring subway and commuter rail service to vast, underserved stretches of the city, particularly the far East and West sides of Manhattan.
Houston-based Powell Industries (nasdaq: POWL - news - people ) makes switchboards and other kinds of electric-power distribution equipment for businesses including commuter rail systems, utilities, and oil and gas producers.
The first line of defense, in some cases, is the train engineers themselves, said Michael Doyle, general chairman of the Engineers Division of the Association of Commuter Rail Employees, which represents train operators on Metro-North.
Declared the European Green Capital in 2010, Stockholm is investing in new construction like the City Line tunnel, which will put commuter rail lines underground and double the number of trains able to move through the city.
First of all, every commuter rail system has full time maintenance crews, and they always have plenty of work: changing lightbulbs in the tube, fixing a signal that got bumped, replacing an on-track communication cable that was vibrated out of place and smashed, etc.
Jim Cameron, chairman of a commuter group, the Connecticut Rail Commuter Council, said a Metro-North commuter alert was emailed at 3:30 a.m.
Values have since risen from a commuter-rail connection and nearby Shanghai University.
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For practical, economic and political reasons, these two projects have morphed largely into programs of modest near-term upgrades in existing commuter-rail services in metropolitan areas along the proposed lines, confirming our premise that when money is tight, we should improve on what we already have before building something new.
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Infrastructure investments could include bridge and highway construction and repair, new commuter and high-speed rail lines, upgrading communications systems, renovating or building new schools, community colleges and state-of-the art job training facilities, investing in dams, waterways and water treatment facilities, reclaiming key wetlands, and improving the basic livability of impoverished neighborhoods.
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