Well at least this time someone from the train OBS crew knew about it. I was on a Silver Star that was evacuated in Jacksonville and held there for over six hours while dogs and bomb squads sat around with thumbs up their you know whats. All this was based on a 911 call from someone on the train mentioning suspicious people and movements. CNOC based on the 911 call apparently decided to call out in the artillery, without bothering to talk to their own train crews aboard that train. It turns out a Conductor was moving 6 Asian looking guys from one car to another to free up a group of seats in a single car to accommodate that a large group that was boarding in JAX. The lady (we were told) saw an attempted hijacking of the train in that act and went into a panic and called 911.
So instead of sleeping in my bed in the sleeper I got to spend most of the night hanging out at JAX station consuming Donuts and Coffee provided courtesy of the JAX Fire Department and Amtrak.
