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Originally Posted by LuvNH
Never forget. Do you remember where you were?
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I was an engineer for NJT and had made one trip into NY CITY for that morning's commute. I often wonder if any of my passengers never made it home. We had close to 1000 people on that rush hour train. After the RR was reopened we were sent back to NYC but we're held out for hours waiting fo authorities to check the tunnels for bombs etc. All we could do was watch smoke rise from where the towers should have been. We also saw many fire and rescue vehicle travel on I-280 heading to the city to assist.
To the best of my knowledge, we were the first train back into NYC from NJ after the inspection.
For several days afterwards we saw many cars with chalk marks on the tires to show they had not been moved and local police could begin tracking down the owners. Many were people that died on that day.