Defects Not Found F-train Derailment Tracks

New York City emergency crews converge at 60th Street and Broadway to evacuate passengers from a subway train after it derailed in the Queens borough of New York, Friday, May 2, 2014. The express F train was bound for Manhattan and Brooklyn when it derailed at 10:40 a.m. about 1,200 feet (365 meters) south of the 65th Street station, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Dozens of firefighters and paramedics with stretchers converged on Broadway and 60th Street, where passengers calmly left the tunnel through the sidewalk opening. A few were treated on stretchers. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has been working on recreating the conditions of the F-train derailment in Woodside, Queens this May, leaving 1,000 passengers stuck, in a lab. Preliminary reports found there were no defects to the rail, said Transit president Carmen Bianco Monday.

“The rail itself conforms to transit specifications,” Bianco said.

Transit officials previously said the rails had been newly made and recently installed. The investigation continues and they will study other aspects. 

Nineteen were injured in May when the middle eight cars of the train derailed near the 61st Street station in Woodside, but there were no deaths. The F-train had derailed that Friday morning and local service returned later the same day. Full service resumed in time for rush hour Monday.