After Historic Rainfall, Metro-North Railroad Re-Opens After Clean-Up

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NEW YORK CITY – Metro-North Railroad re-opens between Albany and New York City after severe weather and subsequent track repair.

In a press release from the MTA, the Metro-North Railroad reopened after “historic rainfall and flooding hit the region on July 9.” Clean-up involved removing fallen debris such as trees boulders, as well as water and mud. 

In order to clean-up, “service was suspended north of Croton-Harmon on the Hudson Line and north of Southeast station on the Harlem Line.” Most service was restored on the Hudson and Harlem Lines within just a few days after the storms hit with the Hudson Line continuing to see some clean-up as of writing this article. 

Regarding weather, Janno Lieber, MTA Chair and CEO, remembered back to Hurricane Ida in 2021 “hitting the Metro North operations especially hard, and now here we are in the aftermath of another once-in-a-generation storm. The MTA team stepped up once again to get the railroad back on track. I have to thank the hundreds of crew members who worked around the clock to make this happen.”

As “these weather emergencies are quickly becoming our new normal,” Governor Hochul reiterated the need to “strengthen infrastructure so it’s resilient for generations to come.”