New York-bound train suffers power outage, delay of 5 hours

PHILADELPHIA -- Severe storms that swept through the Northeast caused Amtrak delays, including one of more than five hours on a New York-bound train.

Amtrak announced that service along the Northeast corridor had been restored after an earlier suspension of service Tuesday evening.

The train agency acknowledged that its Keystone train, which travels from Harrisburg, Pa., to New York City via Philadelphia, had been stopped for more than four hours due to weather with about 50 people on board. That train was coupled with another train traveling the same route and was on the move as of 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, Amtrak spokeswoman Christina Leeds said in an e-mail.

Jeff Garis, an Amtrak passenger, left Harrisburg on Amtrak's Keystone at 6:56. "We got into the city of Lancaster, to the station there, and then when we pulled out of that station we went a short distance and due to severe weather, we're gonna have to stop for a while," he said.

"So we stopped there maybe five to ten minutes, then the train started up again. All the power went out on the train; the lights went out," said Garis. "We sat at the train for a while, they said it was gonna get fixed, then they said that they didn't have any info about how long we would be stopped."

Both Keystone and Northeast Corridor service will run normally on Wednesday, Leeds said.

Overall, the weather delayed service between Washington and Philadelphia as well as on the Philadelphia to Harrisburg route, Amtrak said on Twitter.

The restoration of service was announced in a later tweet, although Amtrak cautioned passengers should expect "residual delays."