Well over 500 city subway passengers spent a harrowing 90 minutes in train tunnels between stations the night of Aug. 29 when a Con Ed power outage, along with the failure of the MTA's communications system, left managers unable to locate dozens of stranded trains or provide information to those aboard them.
Some straphangers, in a serious breach of safety procedures, self-evacuated between stations onto the tracks, where the electrified third rail may still have been hot.
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