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On June 7, hundreds of riders on Amtrak’s Lake Shore Limited and Capitol Limited experienced what, to them, may have felt like one of their own longest days, at least in recent memory. That experience was a trip on Amtrak between Chicago and the East Coast.
A a freight train derailment, in turn caused by an abandoned road vehicle blocking the track, caused severe disruption for many passengers on several trains. One of them arrived 12 h 48 min behind schedule, another 14 h 44 min late, another 16 h behind schedule. Passengers at two other affected trains were lucky (or rather less unlucky): Train 29 arrived 8 hours behind schedule and Train 49 only 7 hours late.
The article describes in details what some passengers were subject to:
(my emphasis).The train finally left—with all riders facing backwards—more than nine hours after [its] scheduled departure time
There was some kind of consolation, though:
Schadenfreude (or epicaricacy), anyone?Amtrak provided a free slice of pizza for passengers on [two of the affected trains] in the lounge car . By the time the pizza was served, it was cold.
Source (Railway Age)