Amtrak Train With Nearly 200 Aboard Has Been Stranded In Oregon For Over 36 Hours

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n Amtrak train carrying nearly 200 people to Los Angeles has been stranded in snowy Oregon since Sunday evening after hitting a fallen tree on the tracks.

Amtrak Coast Starlight Train 11, which operates a daily service from Seattle to Los Angeles, hasn’t moved from its position outside Oakridge, roughly 150 miles south of Portland, since approximately 6:18 p.m. Sunday.

None of the 183 passengers and dozen crew members were injured, Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari told CNN. Worsening conditions such as snow and more fallen trees have made it impossible for the train to continue or for rescue crews to transport those aboard via alternate transportation.

Crews working to clear the track were expected to reach Train 11 by 6 a.m. local time Tuesday, a spokesman for Union Pacific railroad company told The Associated Press. He said the train will not continue on to Los Angeles, but will return to Eugene and Portland.


https://www.huffpost.com/entry/amtrak-train-stuck-oregon_n_5c752e0ce4b03a10c231b04a

[Historic NY]

1. Don't they have snow trains anymore......

[A HERETIC I AM]

2. Do you mean snow blowers and plows?

Sure, plenty. But there isn't much you can do if a tree falls over the tracks.

Granted the following is footage taken quite a bit south and East of where the Amtrak train was and this is 2 year old footage, but I understand they have used this very machine in the last week;

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[nolabear]

3. They're moving again now. Ever read Cannibalism in the Cars?

Mark Twain at his snarky finest. A train gets snow stranded and the passengers decide someone has to be eaten. But it’s full of politicians. Hilarity ensues! 😄

[Rhiannon12866]

4. Update:Amtrak train stranded continues north to Portland. The trip's not over for all the passengers

After more than 36 hours in limbo, dozens of passengers exited an Amtrak train that had been stranded in deep snow in Oregon feeling a mix of relief and frustration.

"We really wanted for nothing except for maybe someplace comfortable to lie down and a shower," passenger Marcia Trujillo told CNN affiliate KOIN shortly after leaving the train.

The train -- originally bound for Los Angeles -- arrived Tuesday afternoon in Eugene, Oregon, with nearly 200 people aboard. It was the first time most of them had a chance to leave the train since Sunday.

At the platform, they ate muffins, talked to reporters and carried their luggage away before leaving the station.

"We played cards, we took naps and we looked at the snow piling up (outside)," passenger Alberto Hernandez told KOIN as he left the station.

But for some passengers, the journey in the train is still far from over.

Some opted to find their own transportation from Eugene but many are riding the train back north.

The train is now on it's way to Portland after receiving maintenance and will continue to Seattle, Amtrak spokesperson Olivia Irvin said.


Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/amtrak-train-stranded-in-oregon-on-the-move-again/ar-BBU5lIZ?ocid=spartanntp



The area has seen record-setting snow. KATU / Rebekah Dodson