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The Harrowing Tale of an Amtrak Train Stuck on the Rails for 10 Hours (Baltimore-Philly)
The Gawker ^ | 12-17-10 | Stephen Tschida

Posted on 12/18/2010 4:24:33 PM PST by dynachrome

A train from Baltimore to Philadelphia stalled on the tracks for ten hours last night. With doors locked and electricity waning, passengers cried and fought for emergency rations. A local news reporter happened to be on board, and tweeted it.

D.C. reporter Stephen Tschida, of ABC affiliate WJLA-TV, was on the train as rations fell short, cold set in, and passengers swelled into an anarchic mob. As @ABC7Stephen, he chronicled it all, 140 characters at a time. Here is our brave correspondent's story, unabridged and arranged chronologically:

(Excerpt) Read more at gawker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Maryland; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: abcnews; amtrak; maryland; pennsylvania; rail; shtf
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To: Sacajaweau

Cried and fought for emergency rations! And I bet a lot of the people on the train could’ve easily gone 10 days without food. Wimps.


21 posted on 12/18/2010 4:37:24 PM PST by definitelynotaliberal
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To: JayVee
As a senior citizen, he sounds like a perfect lunch for a cougar.

Hope he's not a parent....I sure wouldn't go camping with him for a dad...

22 posted on 12/18/2010 4:39:05 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: 1rudeboy

This guy IS a weenie! Heck, I remember one expedition where after three days we ran out of supplies and had to live on nothing but food and water.


23 posted on 12/18/2010 4:42:51 PM PST by GunsAndBibles
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To: 1rudeboy

If the train had a bar car, I would have helped you liberate it for sure.


24 posted on 12/18/2010 4:43:40 PM PST by alarm rider (The left will always tell you who they fear the most. What are they telling you now?)
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To: BenLurkin
Hard to believe this could happen in America.

Sounds like Taggart Transcontinental just as the bottom was falling out.

25 posted on 12/18/2010 4:43:52 PM PST by BfloGuy (It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect . . .)
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To: dynachrome

Just FYI, WJLA (the station that this weenie is on) is the same station that fired Doug McKelway a few months ago for mentioning during a broadcast all the money Obama received in contributions from BP.


26 posted on 12/18/2010 4:45:31 PM PST by Echo4C (We have it in our power to begin the world over again. --Thomas Paine)
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To: Charlemagne on the Fox

Steve Tschida is actually a pretty good guy, decent reporter, not a noticeable lib.


27 posted on 12/18/2010 4:46:17 PM PST by La Lydia
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To: HiTech RedNeck

“Reminds me of the story of the tourists stuck overnight on a jammed tramway car that goes up Sandia Mountain in Albuquerque NM (yes, New Mexico is in the USA).”

Dang. I’ve ridden on that thing, great ride. I’m wondering how the Ladies took care of.......


28 posted on 12/18/2010 4:47:50 PM PST by dljordan ("His father's sword he hath girded on, And his wild harp slung behind him")
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To: dynachrome

See Mark Twain’s “Cannibalism in the Cars”


29 posted on 12/18/2010 4:48:09 PM PST by ThirdMate
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To: alarm rider

If the SHTF, head for the alcohol. Deal with the problem later.


30 posted on 12/18/2010 4:48:27 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: dljordan

I’m told that they, too, “went over the side.”


31 posted on 12/18/2010 4:48:51 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: Charlemagne on the Fox
This “brave reporter” sounds like a real Nancy-boy . . .
Couldn't agree more and I noted in one of his "brave" messages he said he was crying again.
32 posted on 12/18/2010 4:49:19 PM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Sacajaweau
"Oh come on....It took 10 hours to get to these people...ridiculous..and you don’t starve in 10 hours."

11 hours and we'd have been talking Donner Party.

33 posted on 12/18/2010 4:49:36 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: dynachrome

“Harrowing” sure isn’t what it used to be.


34 posted on 12/18/2010 4:49:54 PM PST by niteowl77 (I don't mind them stewing in their own juices, but I do mind them stewing me in their own juices.)
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To: dynachrome

I was once on an Amtrak when the train nailed a car at a crossing. We didn’t move for about five hours while they cleaned up the mess and finished all of their investigations. Then, the journey continued.


35 posted on 12/18/2010 4:50:09 PM PST by JPG (Sarah dedicated her new book to Trig: "I'm glad you're here.")
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To: Paladin2

I think they ate Willy back at the Donner Pass.


36 posted on 12/18/2010 4:52:48 PM PST by nkycincinnatikid
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To: Paladin2
Where’s Willie Green

DADT

37 posted on 12/18/2010 4:52:48 PM PST by palmer (Cooperating with Obama = helping him extend the depression and implement socialism.)
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To: dynachrome

In 1965 our senior class made a 10 day trip by rail from the Florida Panhandle to Washington D.C. and the New York Worlds Fair.

We rode on the Silver Meteor and the Silver Comet. Coming home we got to within 20 miles of home and the engine tore up. No problem. They simply took one off a passing freight and we got home only a few minutes late.


38 posted on 12/18/2010 4:56:59 PM PST by yarddog
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To: BenLurkin
“Hard to believe this could happen in America. But then — it's not really America anymore, is it? “

Yes it is. Some of the residents of this country have been allowed, even encouraged, to give their base, animalistic side free rein. The rest of us have been restrained from reacting by legal, cultural and religious concerns.

The core of America is still there and the people who are trying to destroy it are walking a fine line. They hope to gain social control before things spiral out of control and there is a sudden, fatal readjustment.

39 posted on 12/18/2010 4:58:15 PM PST by dljordan ("His father's sword he hath girded on, And his wild harp slung behind him")
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To: dynachrome
Doesn't take long, does it?

No, it doesn't.

I would have opened a door and left. Walked away, rented a car, gone to a restaurant. There's plenty of food and civilization between Baltimore and Philadelphia. What the hell is the matter with these people? If they were on a narrow bridge over the Susquehanna in the darkness I could understand some hesitation about leaving, but waiting there freezing and hungry for ten hours...? Crying, for God's sake? Where is the logic?

This is so sad. This used to be America.

40 posted on 12/18/2010 4:58:45 PM PST by ottbmare (off-the-track Thoroughbred mare)
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