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Trains to and from Penn Station were running 30 minutes late Saturday morning after wire problems temporarily suspended service, officials said.
The service was suspended Saturday morning at Penn Station after two different trains were turned off Friday night, blocking hundreds of passengers. Power was restored on the northbound lanes from 9 am and the trains were running 30 minutes late.
Amtrak had no estimate for the restoration of food on southbound lanes. The crews "were working to repair the catenary cable problems" at the station around 7:45, Amtrak said in a tweet.
PATH was honoring NJ Transit tickets at a number of stations, NJ Transit said.
The service problems occurred after the passengers had to be rescued from two different trains on Friday night.
On Friday night, passengers on a NJ Transit train to Penn Station from Secaucus told News 4 New York that a metal pole had crashed on the roof of their train.
A spokeswoman for NJ Transit confirmed that the Amtrak overhead cables had been dislodged at around 11:45 pm, causing a metal bracket to fall over the train on a railroad car.
About 700 passengers on the train were transferred to a rescue train. A female passenger stated that she had back pain after the incident, but no one else was injured, the spokeswoman said.
Later that evening, another NJ Transit train departed Penn Station at approximately 23:20. was heading towards Bay Head when he hit a metal object.
The train was also deactivated, and about 350 passengers were transferred to an emergency train, the spokeswoman said, adding that no one had been injured.
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