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Just a complete mess on Amtrak today
By adamg on Mon, 10/05/2009 - 5:38pm
A suicide-by-train near Philadelphia (in a word: blecch) and downed wires outside Providence made Fung Wah look like a good alternative along the Northeast Corridor today. Passengers on one train stuck near Providence for four hours issued desperate tweets for help because they were down to one working toilet, but discovered nobody at Amtrak actually uses Twitter.
Diane Danielson, who was on the Providence train from hell, tweeted at one point:
Irony = getting an email titled "Amtrak rewards" while stuck on train that is nearly 3 hours late.
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Oh. I was at south station
Oh. I was at south station and saw an amtrak train listed as canceled and two others as 30 minutes late, and wondered what was up.
On the plus side, one daily regional train now makes a trip deep into Virginia, and the board at south station reflected that. The old one wouldnt have been able to.