The National Transportation Safety Board continues to update information regarding the September 29 crash of NJ Transit Pascack Valley Line train #1614 into the platform of the Hoboken Terminal:
The first recorder removed for inspection from the locomotive was not working.
Investigators interviewed the accident train engineer. The engineer believes the train was operating normally until the crash, and does not remember the crash itself.
Environmental and structural issues still prevent removal of the train from the station. Extensive debris removal must be completed before investigators can access the train and then have the train removed.
With the assistance of NJ Transit, investigators obtained video from other trains that were at the Hoboken Terminal, to see what those cameras captured from the accident event. The event recorder and camera from the controlling cab of the accident train remain inaccessible to investigators.
There were no signal anomalies found on the tracks leading to the terminal. A full signal study cannot yet be completed because the accident train remains in the terminal.
Investigators completed the walking inspection of the track and found nothing that would have affected the performance of the train.