Train Derailment Update: Carson Street To Reopen

PITTSBURGH, PA - There’s no timetable as to when the Station Square light-rail station will reopen, but the area around Sunday’s freight train derailment on the South Side is getting back to normal.

Here are the latest developments:

• According to the Pittsburgh Department of Public Safety, three lanes of East Carson Street that have been closed since the derailment should be open by 4 p.m. The lane next to the T tracks will remain closed while Port Authority inspects lines.

• Repairs are underway to the damaged tracks at the Station Square light-rail stop. “There’s a lot of work to be done at Station Square, but it has begun,” the authority stated via Twitter.

• The Wabash Tunnel will be open outbound Thursday afternoon and possibly inbound on Friday morning.

• The Red and Blue light-rail lines continue to detour around Station Square via the Allentown tracks.

• The Monongahela Incline and Smithfield Street Bridge have reopened.

File photo of East Carson Street via Google Maps.

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