That article did leave a lot of unanswered question. I agree: it doesn’t exactly sound like a crisis.
Still in training.
Typical overreaction people have to environmental problems. The railroad car was cold and the bathrooms were out of service for a time, so now they think they are sick because of mass hysteria. Nothing further needs to be said about this "problem."
I'm probably the wrong person to ask about Newswire stories, because as a non subscriber I don't read them unless Brian Schmidt links them here. I don't recall having seen one about a snowplow.
I got the impression, wacky as it seems, that some weather-related issue caused the train to stop not once but twice to remove unserviceable cars from the consist (and presumably leave the train dark while a single locomotive went off to spot what was removed somewhere). I am at a relative loss as to what this could have been, and if you can tell me how a snowplow failure could cripple cars (tearing underfloor cables or hoses??) I'd be grateful.
I am hoping for some in-the-know tech updates to come in as more people read the item.
Who got sick with what illness? Not having an operating restroom is an inconvenience and low heat is uncomfortable but neither are a sickness.
Over, is this the same story in Newswire about the bent snow plow?
Modeling the Cleveland and Pittsburgh during the PennCentral era starting on the Cleveland lakefront and ending in Mingo junction
But a highly interesting technical issue. What could be 'weather-related' that made them stop not once, but twice, removing cars each time (for so I understand the coverage; there is little else that could have occupied them a total of 4 hours with presumably much of that the standing train's cars having been left off HEP while the engine ran somewhere with the uncoupled cars)? I don't know how we can find out the details here, but I for one would like to hear Amtrak's side of the problems and the responses taken.
More discouraging media coverage for Amtrak.
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/02/13/amtrak-train-unexpectedly-stops-passengers-sick/
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