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Crews managed to clear debris — trees, brush, dirt and rocks — from railroad tracks along the Hudson River on Sunday, allowing service on Amtrak and Metro-North trains to resume Monday after a A mudslide brought operations to a standstill at the weekend.
The landslide occurred around 9:45 a.m. Saturday and blocked all four tracks of the Metro-North Railroad near the Scarborough station in Briarcliff Manor, New York, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said.
Late Sunday, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said it still expects “near-normal” commutes on the Hudson Line to begin the workweek because two of the four tracks affected by the slide had been cleared.
That appeared to be the case Monday, as the agency reported that all but four trains were operating normally. Two morning trips and two afternoon trips were canceled out of 158 scheduled trips, said MTA spokeswoman Joana Flores.
Near-normal Hudson Line service resumes today, with two morning and two afternoon peak services canceled/consolidated and reverse peak service bypassing Philipse Manor and Scarborough. For more information, see our TrainTime app.
— Metro-North Railroad (@MetroNorth) October 23, 2023
The reverse peak service bypassed the Philipse Manor and Scarborough stations, the MTA said. Travelers were advised to check the agency’s TrainTime app for further updates.
Crews were out throughout Sunday repairing tracks and clearing debris.
Amtrak service between Albany and New York City has been suspended while crews continue to work. On Sunday, some trains ran with limited capacity.
Amtrak offered bus transportation between the Tarrytown North-Metro and Croton-Harmon stations as an alternative, MTA spokesman Aaron Donovan said. He said different bus operators were used to ferry passengers between the two stations.
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Trains continued to run north and south of the closed areas between Poughkeepsie and Croton-Harmon and between Tarrytown and Grand Central Station.
The mudslide broke through a retaining wall in the back of a house on Country Club Lane South and spilled onto the tracks, said Peter West, chief of the Archville Fire Department, which was called to the cleanup effort.
A large portion of the home’s backyard slipped as the retaining wall gave way. In other parts of the yard, large cracks were visible, breaking through a stone patio and coming dangerously close to an in-ground pool.
Staff writer Kyle Morel contributed to this article.