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It’s been a tough couple of weeks for rail riders along the busy Northeast Corridor

April 3, 2017 at 12:04 p.m. EDT
New York City firefighters stand by near Penn Station in New York April 3, 2017 after responding to a derailment of a NJ Transit train at Penn Station Monday morning. NJ  Transit said all 1,200 passengers on board were offloaded with only four minor injuries. (AFP PHOTO / TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)

Travelers along the busy Northeast Corridor are dealing with service delays for the second time in as many weeks after a NJ Transit train derailed near New York’s Penn Station.

In a service alert, Amtrak officials said that the incident is likely to affect Acela Express and Northeast Regional service between Newark and New York.  Amtrak also may modify its Keystone Service, which runs between New York and Harrisburg, Pa. Its Empire Service, however, is currently unaffected.

This is the second time in less than two weeks that a derailment has snarled traffic into New York’s  busy Penn Station. On Mar. 24, officials with NJ Transit reported that a D.C.-bound Acela Express train sideswiped one of its trains headed into the station. No serious injuries were reported in the incident, which is under investigation. Officials with the Federal Railroad Administration also were investigating.

Three days later, an Amtrak train derailed at Chicago’s Union Station as it was arriving from New York.

Monday’s derailment of the NJ Transit train happened just after 9 a.m. According to CBS New York, at least 5 people were injured. FRA inspectors are traveling to the scene.

Monday’s derailment may increase scrutiny of operations at NJ Transit. Last month, Bloomberg Politics reported that the system had the most crashes of the 10 largest commuter railroad systems, according to federal statistics. Last September, one person was killed after a NJ Transit commuter train crashed at the Hoboken station.