amtrakadirondack
Lead Service Attendant
- Joined
- Apr 15, 2003
- Messages
- 274
It looked bad, very bad...
I thought to myself, at the scene of yesterday's derailment of the Silver Star. My mom was driving me to school on her way to work, as we saw smoke in the distance. As we got closer emergency units started to arrive on the scene, as more approached behind us. We pulled over the best we could, now being able to see the accident from about 20 ft away. One of the police officers told us that we would have to wait there until some of the EMT's moved and that we might have to get out of our car and leave the scene immediately, incase of an explosion, or something. We watched the crew's work, as the time passed. I had my window down to get some air, and I overheard one of the police officers say "Yeah, its train 91, in route to Miami". Then I thought about it and knew it was the Silver Star, because I know every train name, number, and schedules. Then about twenty minutes later, at about 11:00am we were able to go on our way. That's my eyewitness account of the Silver Star derailment. I'll be online if you want to type a question and I'll do my best to try to answer it.
Sincerely,
Amtrakadirondack
I thought to myself, at the scene of yesterday's derailment of the Silver Star. My mom was driving me to school on her way to work, as we saw smoke in the distance. As we got closer emergency units started to arrive on the scene, as more approached behind us. We pulled over the best we could, now being able to see the accident from about 20 ft away. One of the police officers told us that we would have to wait there until some of the EMT's moved and that we might have to get out of our car and leave the scene immediately, incase of an explosion, or something. We watched the crew's work, as the time passed. I had my window down to get some air, and I overheard one of the police officers say "Yeah, its train 91, in route to Miami". Then I thought about it and knew it was the Silver Star, because I know every train name, number, and schedules. Then about twenty minutes later, at about 11:00am we were able to go on our way. That's my eyewitness account of the Silver Star derailment. I'll be online if you want to type a question and I'll do my best to try to answer it.
Sincerely,
Amtrakadirondack