The full story from NY Newsday.A fire erupted aboard the 2:14 p.m. train from Penn Station to Ronkonkoma Friday, forcing the evacuation of about 800 people onto the snowy platform at Merillon Avenue in Garden City.
On a personal note; while I was not on the above train, I was on a train behind it and was delayed for well over an hour. Since it had snowed that morning I had taken the day off from work to combine two of my favorite things, trains & snow.