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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:
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Maryland; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: abcnews; amtrak; maryland; pennsylvania; rail; shtf
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To: dynachrome
Doesn't take long, does it? In America at least, I think panic is still the exception rather than the rule. Not one person was trampled or pushed aside in the Hudson River plane crash; 9/11 was much the same.
61
posted on
12/18/2010 5:40:33 PM PST
by
denydenydeny
(Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak-Adams)
To: dynachrome
We are just across the Mason-Dixon line above Perryville Md. It was 18 degrees last night.
To: nwrep
Trains suck, which is why the airplane was invented.Well, at least if something goes wrong while you're in transit in a plane, the wait isn't so long...
63
posted on
12/18/2010 5:44:54 PM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Graybeard58
Didn't he get banned in the great Rudy purge of '08? He tried his trash talk on Jim Rob after Jim told him "we don't want fricken government trains!" Willie had a message on his FReep Page saying he would stay away from FR.
Just recently, I took a look and noticed his account was suspended. I don't know if he acted up again or if he simply asked for it to be wiped.
64
posted on
12/18/2010 5:45:51 PM PST
by
Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
To: GunsAndBibles
Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
W. C. Fields
65
posted on
12/18/2010 5:48:44 PM PST
by
ansel12
(Lonnie, little by little the look of the country changes, because of the men we admire.)
To: dynachrome
Stuck on a train?????
This is stuck and it happened this past Monday and Tuesday just outside of Windsor. Actual reports had approx. 350 motorists stranded in their cars for over 24 hours and ultimately had to be airlifted out via military helicopters...........
Stranded on Canadas 402
66
posted on
12/18/2010 5:50:32 PM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(There's only one cure for Obamarrhea......)
To: dynachrome
Societal norm in 2010 is anarchy within one hour of not getting their way.
To: dynachrome
Was thinking of taking the train to Fla rather than submit the family jewels to close examination. But maybe not.
ML/NJ
68
posted on
12/18/2010 6:01:39 PM PST
by
ml/nj
To: dynachrome
Typical D.C. media castrato from an affiliate of one of the alphabet networks. Legends in their own minds when they're in their own warm, pampered element, but they turn into 5 year old girls if they have to rely on their own atrophied (if even existent) primal sense of self-survival. And no, it doesn't take indigenous urbanites long to panic and lose it. They're too used to that hive-like mindset that expects someone else will provide them everything from sustenance to salvation.
![](http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m270/Viking2002/vikings.jpg)
Props to cripplecreek for the graphics!
69
posted on
12/18/2010 6:01:41 PM PST
by
Viking2002
(2012 - NO PRISONERS! NO QUARTER!)
To: dynachrome
Sounds a bit like something from
Atlas Shrugged.
ML/NJ
70
posted on
12/18/2010 6:05:54 PM PST
by
ml/nj
To: Presbyterian Reporter
To: pnh102
Or, if 95 is jammed, hop over to US 1 and enjoy the drive through some mighty fine countryside. I’ve done it many times.
To: ml/nj; Viking2002
My guess is that the inhabitants of that train were mostly “the elite”, used to being catered to and not prepared for anything. It’s winter and these people didn’t have any warm clothing/jackets? And yeah, it did remind me of the train in Atlas Shrugged
73
posted on
12/18/2010 6:09:26 PM PST
by
dynachrome
("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Our thruway here in NY got jammed near Buffalo...Of course, they kept letting people on....just plain STUPID!!!
To: Tijeras_Slim
Those trains run out of DC into NYC and often North to Boston. Baltimore/Philly are 2 of the intermediate stops. I’m thinking it’s more urbane DC types who just can’t have their lives interrupted or made uncomfortable in any way.
Amtrak ain’t cheap. I think poorer folks (like me) take the bus when traveling from DC to NYC. You see, there is LOTS of competition among bus companies for that route; Amtrak owns the rails and sets the fare.
75
posted on
12/18/2010 6:17:26 PM PST
by
EDINVA
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). just did this in June during my visit to Albuquerque... had no idea this happened! glad i didn't know...
76
posted on
12/18/2010 6:27:55 PM PST
by
latina4dubya
( self-proclaimed tequila snob)
To: getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL
Dang! He is a drama “queen” alright!
77
posted on
12/18/2010 6:28:24 PM PST
by
dynachrome
("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
To: dynachrome
As a matter of fact, a percentage of the elite rabble in D.C. do use Amtrak to get back and forth. As someone who used the Metro rail a bit back in the day, I can't understand how anyone would willingly do it over the long haul - how tedious. I can understand not wanting to pull up roots, especially given the price of housing in the the region, and if you're in a professional position that may not last beyond a month, a year, or an election, but jeez - getting up every day, getting your head and ass wired together for the daily grind, schlepping to a terminal, enduring a train ride sitting beside God-knows-who and not knowing if they're a nut case, if they have bad gas, if they even bathed that morning, etc., then having to catch a bus or slug in to your office, log an eight hour shift, then reverse the process just to return to your own personal toilet seat and warm bed.......no money is worth that. No amount of power is worth that. That isn't living; that's just
existing.
![](http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m270/Viking2002/vikings.jpg)
Props to cripplecreek for the graphics!
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posted on
12/18/2010 6:28:26 PM PST
by
Viking2002
(2012 - NO PRISONERS! NO QUARTER!)
To: Holen1
“ABC7StephenStephenTschido...you must be a fag’
heh. see the link in #71
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posted on
12/18/2010 6:29:54 PM PST
by
dynachrome
("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
To: Viking2002
Check out #71 for a link to a pic of the reporter. The gaydar broke on that one!
80
posted on
12/18/2010 6:31:34 PM PST
by
dynachrome
("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
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