VentureForth
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Looks like our Global Moderator Anderson is going to be lucky with his train 4(5) being truncated in KCY. At least he may get a bustitution.
Looks like the real train from hell was the one before his. It left Princeton, IL 2 minutes late yesterday afternoon, but it's been sitting on the track about 50 miles outside of the next stop, Mendota, for over 17 hours.
Any word from anyone in the area what's going on? Anderson mentioned "track outage". Fillyjonk then reported:
I'm baffled, to say the least, that the estimated time into Mendota keeps getting pushed out. Is the ETA updated automatically, or is there an optimistic conductor reporting that they'll get there any minute now?
This just in from CNN.com:
Looks like the real train from hell was the one before his. It left Princeton, IL 2 minutes late yesterday afternoon, but it's been sitting on the track about 50 miles outside of the next stop, Mendota, for over 17 hours.
Any word from anyone in the area what's going on? Anderson mentioned "track outage". Fillyjonk then reported:
We need boots on the ground in the frigid farmland of Western Illinois to report!I've also heard of one stalled train and now this morning one that seems to be in distress somewhere west of Chicago.
I'm baffled, to say the least, that the estimated time into Mendota keeps getting pushed out. Is the ETA updated automatically, or is there an optimistic conductor reporting that they'll get there any minute now?
This just in from CNN.com:
Stranded Amtrak passengers
The nasty winter weather left 500 people on three Amtrak trains stranded overnight in northern Illinois, an Amtrak spokesman said.
The Bureau County Sheriff's Office said it responded Monday night after the trains were reportedly stuck in snowdrifts.
The Mendota Police Department received a report from Amtrak around 6 p.m. (7 p.m. ET) about a train stuck about 4 miles west of the city, Sgt. Ken Haun said. Officers tried to reach the train but couldn't because of the weather.
Amtrak worked to make other arrangements, putting some passengers on buses.
On one train, about 300 passengers had to wait more than nine hours to reach their destination, CNN affiliate WXMI reported.
The train was stuck in Kalamazoo, Michigan, en route to Chicago. "It was kind of like purgatory," a passenger told CNN affiliate WLS, adding that it was "not quite hellish because there was good company."
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