Posted on 02/26/2019 7:50:23 AM PST by Hojczyk
(CNN)As record snow keeps falling in Oregon, almost 200 people remain trapped on an Amtrak train that came to a sudden stop Sunday evening south of Eugene.
The train hit a tree that had fallen onto the tracks. It hasn't moved more than 30 hours. But with heat, power and (so far) food, passengers say the mood onboard is surprisingly upbeat.
"It's just been like a giant kumbaya party," Rebekah Dodson told CNN early Tuesday. "Strangers are playing cards. A teenager played his ukulele to kids to get them to sleep. Ladies who have never met before were dancing in aisles."
Still, she said the "ordeal" is stressful, of course, as passengers cannot go anywhere. The train is surrounded by feet of snow. Some Los Angeles-bound college students have "panicked" because their professors won't accept their excuse for missing class, Dodson said.
Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari told CNN that none of the 183 passengers and dozen crew members were injured, but that "conditions further deteriorated with numerous track blockages from snow and fallen trees."
"Due to worsening conditions, area road closures and no viable way to safely transport passengers or crews via alternate transportation, Train 11 stopped in Oakridge, Oregon," he said. "We are actively working with Union Pacific to clear the right of way and get passengers off the train." The train had power and enough food on board -- for which passengers will not be charged, Amtrak said on Twitter on Monday.
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It is GLOBAL Warming again??:
Global warming can be fun!
But with heat, power and (so far) food, passengers say the mood onboard is surprisingly upbeat.
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If you’re gonna go cannibal do it right away. That way you get the freshest meat.
Was there a Belgian by the name of Hercule Poirot onboard?
“Why, with the Green New Deal, you’ll be able to get across the country in days, or even weeks, instead of just hours! REJOICE PROLS!”
Hopefully WILLIE GREEN is aboard . . .
It would be interesting to see how long after the food ran out that they would start eating each other. I bet two weeks.
It will go downhill fast when the food and booze runs out.
[Was there a Belgian by the name of Hercule Poirot onboard?]
Beat me to it!
That’s in 2019.
After the 2020 election New Green Deal goes in they will be stranded on a train on top of the Pacific Ocean.
They’d better hope another train isn’t heading in the opposite direction across the ocean on their tracks.
Maybe an illegal helicopter could lift them up one by one and fly across the ocean.
If they told me I couldn’t smoke on the train, I’d have dug us out by now.
I don’t understand why Amtrak couldn’t run a train up to the back end of the stranded one, pull the PAX off, then reverse.
I’m sure they’ve thought of that.
I’m still waiting for reports of victims having “end of the world sex”.
Better to be on a train than in a plane that fell out of the sky. I did two AMTRAK round-trips from Cleveland to Baltimore last year. People on that train aren’t in any hurry; they tend to take things in stride.
How long was it before the Donner party started eating each other?
How long was it before the Donner party started eating each other?
Read the article. They’re snowed in and the nearby town only has two small motels.
Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari told CNN that none of the 183 passengers and dozen crew members were injured, but that “conditions further deteriorated with numerous track blockages from snow and fallen trees.”
“Due to worsening conditions, area road closures and no viable way to safely transport passengers or crews via alternate transportation, Train 11 stopped in Oakridge, Oregon,”
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