Commuters in New York and Connecticut were experiencing heavy delays Friday after a Thursday evening outage hampered Amtrak and Metro-North Railroad service through Connecticut, and sources said

Passenger train service in the U.S. Northeast was still not back to full capacity early Friday afternoon after crews worked overnight to repair a power outage in Connecticut.

Fire officials said two Metro-North trains had to be evacuated after the lines came down on the tracks in Fairfield.