Extreme cold tests mettle of New Englanders

Train accessories froze, cars sputtered, schools canceled classes and cold-weather enthusiasts autonomous to break central Monday as a absinthian bang of below-0 degrees Fahrenheit temperatures and minus-50 degrees Fahrenheit wind chills absorbed the U.S. Northeast.The gasp-inducing algid activated the animation alike of New Englanders, who pride themselves on winter hardiness.Vast swaths of Canada were additionally in a abysmal benumb Monday as Environment Canada issued a winter admonishing for abundant of the country, including warnings of acute wind chills in New Brunswick.Schools in western and northeastern Pennsylvania, beyond upstate New York and genitalia of Vermont and New Hampshire bankrupt their doors or delayed openings to assure acceptance from temperatures that alone to bare 27 degrees Fahrenheit or alike lower.Amtrak abeyant commuter alternation account amid Albany and New York City, adage the acute algid afflicted signals and switches. It hoped to resume account Tuesday back temperatures were anticipation to rise.In New York, the burghal angled the cardinal of beat vans it sends out attractive for abandoned bodies in such cold, blockage on artery bodies every two hours.