Just want to warn others about delays! 4 hour delay NYC to Boston Amtrak that made me miss a flight, train breakdown in Connecticut

Literally the first time I took Amtrak about a month ago, I needed to make a flight out of Boston Logan Airport but was coming from NYC. Stupidly I took the first Amtrak train out of NY Penn Station to Boston South Station in the morning at around 5am to make a noon flight. The Amtrak Northeast Regional train that was supposed to make it to Boston by 9am crapped out in the middle of bumfuck Connecticut (somewhere along the Northeast Corridor route) from electrical issues. We were stranded out there until another train arrived to move us all onto that train.

I arrived in Boston South Station 4 hours past the original arrival time, just as my flight took off without me :( I considered the possibility of this happening, but this route seemed unlikely to be problematic and the weather was literally perfect that day so I really thought I was in the clear.

Just wanted to put this out there as a cautionary message to others looking to connect from Amtrak to flights out of Boston Logan since I didn’t see this anywhere when I was doing my research on Amtrak delays, reliability of the NYC to Boston route, train-to-plane connections, or whether it’s safe to rely on Amtrak the same day as a flight. I made the decision to not take a train the night before instead and it was the worst mistake. Hopefully my shitty experience prevents others from having the same happen.