Passengers spend the night on the Long Island Railroad

[marmar]

150 Stranded in LIRR Overnightmare


Selim Algar
The New York Post


NEW YORK - A perfect storm of bad luck and even worse judgment kept some 150 passengers trapped aboard a stranded, dark and unheated Long Island Rail Road train for as long as five hours, enraged passengers said yesterday.

"People were just going nuts," said Susan Packert, who caught the 2:53 a.m. train from Penn Station after flying into Newark Airport from Costa Rica. "People didn't know what was happening."

LIRR officials said the train was already behind schedule due to snow accumulations when moisture in the diesel engine shut it down near Wyandanch shortly before 5 a.m.

At 8 a.m., the train, which included 50 passengers from a 1:17 a.m. train, was towed back to Farmingdale, where passengers waited for another train that reached its last stop, Ronkonkoma, at 8:45 a.m.


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[Turbineguy]

1. Did it cost

$200?

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2. The 2:53 is the drunk train.

That's the last train before 5AM. Most of the people on that train are hammered from a night of partying, especially on the weekend. I can just imagine the smells.

I remember a stuck train a couple years ago where people opened the doors using the emergency system and jumped off. I'm surprised that didn't happen here, but there was a raging blizzard.

[marmar]

3. When I lived in Westchester, we took Metro-North back to New Rochelle after New Years Eve once....

It was not a pleasant experience, to say the absolute least.

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4. No food on the LIRR.

[Turbineguy]

5. Come to think of it,

It would have gone better with a little music!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvnWuOjJDh4&feature=related