Amtrak train service between New York and Boston has been restored after a lightning strike is believed to have caused a circuit breaker to trip
NEW YORK — Amtrak’s New York-Boston train service has been restored after a lightning strike is believed to have caused a faulty circuit breaker, the railroad announced Saturday night.
The outage caused a power outage on all tracks between Penn Station in New York and Union Station in New Haven, Connecticut, starting Saturday afternoon.
Amtrak announced in a statement on its website that service had been restored.
Evening trains between Boston and Virginia ran as scheduled Saturday. Most trains were scheduled to run as scheduled Sunday, although some Sunday services were canceled and others were scheduled to run on a modified schedule, the company said.
Customers with reservations for the trains in question will be accommodated on trains with similar departure times or on different days, the railway company said on Saturday.
Amtrak said it would not charge additional fees for customers who want to change their reservations.