PA: Port Authority Sees 'Extensive Damage' to Tracks after Freight Derailment

Port Authority engineers found what officials feared Thursday when they were able to inspect the track on the light-rail system at Station Square: “extensive damage” to about 1,600 feet of track, some rails lifted out of place and some mangled like to look like pretzels as a result of debris and cleanup efforts from Sunday’s derailment of seven Norfolk Southern cars on railroad tracks above the authority’s tracks.

Authority spokesman Adam Brandolph said the agency expects it will have to replace about 1,600 feet of light-rail track and about 4,000 feet of overhead electrical wires used to power the system. Structural engineers are still reviewing the approach to the Panhandle Bridge, where falling rail cars damaged the concrete.

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