The pink, rectangular icon on the computer screen representing the progress of PATH train 5780 blinked, as the cars rolled out on the westbound tracks from the World Trade Center station.
Officials with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said the agency was deploying additional staff and is assembling snow-fighting equipment for area's airports, bridges and tunnels, and the PATH train system.
One eastbound train derailed, coming to rest in the path of a westbound train that sideswiped it, damaging several cars and tearing up rails.
Using interviews, inspections of wreckage and reviews of maintenance data, NTSB investigators have determined that the first, eastbound Metro-North train derailed and came to a stop in the path of an approaching westbound train.
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Last month, two men were killed when they were propelled into the path of a train by a stranger.
Fifty kilometres along the train route from Kandy lies the path to Sri Pada, a holy shrine of a much different nature.
"The defendant is accused of committing what is every subway commuter's worst nightmare - being suddenly and senselessly pushed into the path of an oncoming train, " he said.
There, 58-year-old Ki-Suck Han got into "some type of dispute" with another man, who then pushed him into the path of an approaching Q train, the official said.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority was preparing for the storm by moving some sensitive equipment out of the path of the now, and by adjusting train schedules to accommodate an earlier-than-usual afternoon rush hour on Friday.
As each eastbound train arrived at the front of the platform at Exchange Place last week, a PATH worker, Raishea Haines wrote down the number of the lead car.
Meanwhile, in the two under-river tubes that cross between Exchange Place and the World Trade Center, PATH workers have jury-rigged a system of walkie-talkies and train-spotting staffers to get service there running at all.
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