It’s only been a few weeks since Amtrak took down the legendary old-school "Big Board" of arrival and departure times at Penn Station and the new digital system has already gone on the fritz.

They took down the old board in NYC Penn Station and added this one - which does not work. @CJontheHudson pic.twitter.com/Pd6dolM4qC — James Ketterer (@jpketterer) February 17, 2017 Seriously @Amtrak? We miss the old mechanical track listing at penn station NYC. All screens look like this. 😭 pic.twitter.com/QPH5LLr3u5 — Rebecca Klein (@bkleinNYC) February 17, 2017

Commuters reported Friday morning that the system, which features a series of smaller screens distributed around the terminal, briefly stopped working, leaving them to fend for themselves/look at their phones/ask other humans for help IRL.

Some, or at least one, were calling the meltdown the "Big Board Blackout."

.@Amtrak Jermaine at Penn Station is absolutely amazing during this big board blackout. Someone give this man a raise! pic.twitter.com/kdj3LgxAKC — Adam Murray (@AMurrayState) February 17, 2017

Kimberly Woods, a spokesperson for Amtrak, confirmed that the system had gone down for approximately an hour beginning at 10 a.m. It is apparently now up and running. During the outage, Amtrak employees fanned out at the terminal to make announcement to commuters. (Presumably that's what the employee in the photo above is doing.)

"We’re looking into exactly what was the cause of the outage," Woods told Gothamist.

New boards are ... okay. Track announcements sound like Rosie the maid from #thejetsons. Overheard 3 business dudes saying they still miss the old clicking flipboards. A post shared by shiftynj (@shiftynj) on Feb 17, 2017 at 6:55am PST

We’ll remember the Big Board Blackout of ‘17 as long as we live, or until the system breaks down again next week.

Meanwhile, some people continued on with their lives, somehow.