WATERBURY, Conn. (WTNH) — Transportation leaders took a tour of the Metro-North tracks on Thursday, to assess the destruction after last weekend’s flash flooding.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority [MTA] and Connecticut’s Department of Transportation [DOT] said that the Metro-North Waterbury Branch Line was hit hard by Sunday’s storm.
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The worst of it was a stretch of train tracks near the Naugatuck River Reservoir.
“It’s a big project to bring the line back,” Catherine Rinaldi, president of the MTA Metro-North Railroad, said. “We’re going to have to dump a lot of stone. We’re going to have some logistical challenges in terms of completing the work.”…