Passengers Held ‘Hostage’ For 37 HOURS

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Passengers took a nightmare ride through the Carolinas on Amtrak. After being stranded in the middle of nowhere for 37 hours, they started thinking they were being held hostage and called 911. One small disaster started a chain reaction that left riders terrified.

Hostage passengers in panic

Passengers left the station on time at 5 p.m. and were scheduled to arrive by 10 a.m. the next day at their final destination. The Auto Train is a popular alternative to driving the freeway from Lorton, Virginia, to Sanford, Florida, near Orlando.

The perfect storm started brewing when “a CSX freight train hit a vehicle left on the tracks in South Carolina.” That forced a detour onto another track and seems to be the point when someone dropped the ball.

When the train was re-routed, Amtrak started reporting “significant delays.” They had to stop in Denmark, South Carolina to wait for “the arrival of a new crew.” There wasn’t one.

The company claims they kept passengers informed with “ample updates” but apparently, nobody was believing them. Concerned riders started “calling 911 from the train” to report being held hostage. By the time it started rolling again, it was 37 hours late.

One passenger took a phone video as the conductor got on the announcement system. “For those of you that are calling the police, we are not holding you hostage.” It only seems that way.

We are giving you all the information in which we have. We are sorry about the inconvenience.” It turned out that they may have been giving all the information they had, but they didn’t really have any to start with. It’s no wonder that passengers weren’t believing it.

No smoking on the train

Despite being held captive for nearly two days, the conductor was enforcing the rules like a Nazi, berating the nicotine addicted passengers for opening their windows to “smoke on the train.

They had to fight for a few minutes outside, taking turns with folks who had to walk their pets. “After nearly 20 hours of delays, the 563 passengers and 333 vehicles were able to disembark Wednesday morning after the train pulled into the station in Sanford, Fla., concluding the 37-hour saga.

Amtrak is working hard to spin the damage. The statement they issued notes passengers were given “regular updates” along with “meals, snack packs and beverages.” One woman who was there appeared on Tucker Carlson to tell her tale of woe.

Colleen McKenna was one of many riders “stranded on the train in the Carolina woods.” She “woke up about 6 a.m. on Tuesday, and we were stopped in North Carolina and I spoke with one of my attendants, and he just said that there was a derailment of a train in front of us, so we’re going to have to take a detour.” That was all they were ever told.

McKenna relates that “the crew had little idea what was going on either, nor did they know when the train would finally arrive in Florida.” Passengers were thrilled when the train started moving again, but all it did was “move across the state line from North to South Carolina before stopping again for another six hours.” That was for the crew change.

She thought the hostage announcement was funny but understands why people were calling the cops. They “were not allowed off the train as it was in the middle of South Carolina’s rural expanse. So we were locked in.

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