Four early morning mudslides knocked out Sounder commuter rail service from Everett to Seattle, officials said.
Sounder trains didnt roll this morning and service wont return until Friday morning, at the earliest, said Bruce Gray, a spokesman for Sound Transit.
Mud slid over the tracks between 1 a.m. and 3:30 a.m., he said.
“We apparently had a series of mudslides between Ballard and Edmonds four of them,” he said. “At least one of them covered both sets of tracks.”
Sound Transit hired the Gray Line bus company to take Sounder riders to work this morning. More buses will run this evening and on Thursday, Gray said.
Burlington Northern Santa Fe cleared the tracks of mud, but federal law requires that no passenger trains run until 48 hours after a mudslide, Gray said.
Sound Transit’s two round-trip Everett-to-Seattle trains carry about 365 people per day.
Sounder service was also interrupted for at least one day in November after a freight train derailed along the Everett waterfront.
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