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3 Amtrak Trains With Hundreds of Passengers Stranded Since Monday
ABC News ^ | 1-7-14 | ANTHONY CASTELLANO

Posted on 01/07/2014 8:51:21 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic

About 500 passengers aboard three Amtrak trains were stranded overnight in a remote part of northern Illinois because of blowing and drifting snow, Amtrak officials said today.

The trains were halted late Monday near Mendota, about 80 miles west of Chicago. The passengers were aboard the Southwest Chief from Los Angeles, the Illinois Zephyr from Quincy, Ill., and the California Zephyr from the San Francisco Bay area, Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari told The Associated Press.

The trains became stuck around 4:15 p.m. ET Monday after they hit a 12-foot snow drift that paralyzed the engines, passenger Bryan Plummer told ABC News today by cellphone.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amtrak; cold; discomfort; railtravel; snow; strandedamtraktrain; weather; willie
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1 posted on 01/07/2014 8:51:21 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Im surprised they didnt derail, not because of the snow. because they are amtrak.


2 posted on 01/07/2014 8:53:31 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Hopefully they had plenty of evil hydrocarbons in the tanks to keep these things running while they wait.


3 posted on 01/07/2014 8:53:32 AM PST by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Considerably warmer temps are on the way.


4 posted on 01/07/2014 8:55:50 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

NYT headlines:

Global warming kills hundreds as they froze to death...


5 posted on 01/07/2014 8:55:56 AM PST by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalism_in_the_Cars


6 posted on 01/07/2014 8:57:27 AM PST by Tawiskaro
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To: driftdiver

I’ve had great experiences riding amtrak in the northwest. I know they are government subsidized, but it’s usually a well run operation, unlike 0bozocare.


7 posted on 01/07/2014 8:57:40 AM PST by PROCON (Those who are capable of Tyranny are capable of Deceit to sustain it.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

“About 500 passengers aboard three Amtrak trains were stranded overnight in a remote part of northern Illinois”

Funny, I never thought that Mendota (which in the area where I live was remote) Chicago does not realize there is live beyond Chicago.


8 posted on 01/07/2014 9:03:58 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Sounds like Atlas Shrugged.

Winter had come early, in the last days of November. People said that it was the hardest winter on record and that no one could be blamed for the unusual severity of the snowstorms. They did not care to remember that there had been a time when snowstorms did not sweep, unresisted, down unlighted roads and upon the roofs of unheated houses, did not stop the movement of trains, did not leave a wake of corpses counted by the hundreds.
The only difference is now that we know that the cold weather is caused by global warming.
9 posted on 01/07/2014 9:04:40 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Everyone get online for Obamacare on 10/1. Overload the system and crash it hard!)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
...became stuck around 4:15 p.m. ET Monday after they hit a 12-foot snow drift that paralyzed the engines...

Hate to rant, I hate lousy journalism, but I really, really despise lousy writing.

Should read "...stopped the engines cold in their tracks..."., not "paralyzed engines". imho

10 posted on 01/07/2014 9:05:03 AM PST by logi_cal869
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To: afraidfortherepublic

In the 1880`s here up til 1950`s the steam trains ran thru town -all the passenger cars had wood stoves inside and a supply of small logs to throw into it during wintertime.
Up to the 1960`s all the cabooses had wood stoves in case of snowstuck. I rode the steam trains in the 1940`s with my grandfather. [yea, I know, I`m OLD.]


11 posted on 01/07/2014 9:10:12 AM PST by bunkerhill7 ("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")
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To: afraidfortherepublic; All
hmm..Trains..songs
Train called, The City of New Orleans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piUWIqWSthA&feature=youtube_gdata_player

12 posted on 01/07/2014 9:26:50 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi :-)
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To: All

This weather is God’s way of telling the AGW crowd to stay outta His business........


13 posted on 01/07/2014 9:27:18 AM PST by Boonie
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To: bunkerhill7
I rode the steam trains in the 1940`s with my grandfather. [yea, I know, I`m OLD.]

I wouldn't call that old.

If you would have said "I rode the steam trains in the 1960`s with my grandfather. [yea, I know, I`m OLD.]", that I would have agreed with. That is old.

What you are is something else entirely. /s>
;)

14 posted on 01/07/2014 9:28:13 AM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: bunkerhill7
see #12 (above :)

15 posted on 01/07/2014 9:28:21 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi :-)
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To: PROCON

Well run meaning turning a profit? If not, then it is not “well run” period.


16 posted on 01/07/2014 9:29:35 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: afraidfortherepublic

The people are reportedly now on buses headed to Chicago.

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/01/06/three-amtrak-trains-stranded-in-illinois/


17 posted on 01/07/2014 9:32:26 AM PST by iowamark (I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
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To: Popman



18 posted on 01/07/2014 9:33:04 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ( a Safe..and Sane....2014 To All!)
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To: Popman

I hear they are changing the name of the route to the Donner Express.


19 posted on 01/07/2014 9:34:20 AM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Awesome pic. Algore makes a better pj boy than the original!


20 posted on 01/07/2014 9:36:09 AM PST by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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