Amtrak train reaches destination 28 hours late
Amtrak‘s Silver Meteor train arrived in New York from Florida more than 28 hours late on New Year’s Eve, releasing more than 100 exhausted, hungry and angry passengers.
“I’m tired. I just want to sleep,” said Jonathan Papik, 11, who was headed home to Long Island with his mother, Teresa Papik, after their marathon trip from Orlando, Fla. The train was idled in Jacksonville, Fla., for 12 hours while a derailed CSX freight train was removed.
Teresa Papik said the only free meal Amtrak offered them during the marathon delay was “a crappy sandwich, a can of soda and chips. No water. I’m starving.”
The Silver Meteor pulled into New York’s Pennsylvania Station at 11:24 a.m. Saturday – more than two days after leaving Miami. A litany of complaints echoed through the station as passengers stepped off the escalator from the tracks below.
“Many people take the train because they’re afraid of flying. Well, Amtrak made a lot of fliers out of a lot of people today,” said Karen Chiel, who boarded the train in West Palm Beach, Fla., with her two young children.
Source: The Post and Courier.
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