An event recorder from the New Jersey Transit train showed that it was going about 21 miles per hour, higher than the 10-m.p.h. limit for trains entering the terminal, federal officials said.
The engineer, Thomas Gallagher, also told investigators that the train was traveling about 10 miles an hour when it entered Hoboken Terminal, contradicting initial reports that it was moving faster.
The Federal Railroad Administration began an audit of the railroad in June after an increase in safety violations, an official said.
Adrianus de Kroon and his family had moved to Hoboken, N.J., from Brazil not long ago. On Thursday, his wife was killed when a train crash caused a portion of the station’s ceiling to collapse, officials
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Investigators have retrieved an event recorder from the passenger train that crashed Thursday in Hoboken, New Jersey, and information from
The morning commute via Hoboken is part back-to-normal after Thursday’s train crash and part still a mess.
The agency has been operating without an executive director for nearly a year and has not explained how it will close a $45 million gap in its budget.
With no train, light-rail, bus or ferry service into or out of Hoboken Terminal, here are alternative ways to get home during this evening’s commute.
Commuters said nothing seemed out of the ordinary as they approached the Hoboken train station. Then they were thrown from their feet and plunged into darkness.
About 100 people were injured in the accident Thursday morning, the authorities said; rail service was suspended into and out of the station.
A New Jersey Transit commuter train crashed into the station at Hoboken, N.J., on Thursday. Video shot by witnesses shows the damage moments after the crash.