Hundreds of passengers found themselves trapped on a broken-down Amtrak train for hours, left to fend for themselves, many missing onward travel connections and flights.
The chaos began when a train horn, a mandatory safety feature, failed, leading to the breakdown of the Silver Service 92, which was travelling from Miami to New York. The train, which departed on the morning of Friday, June 21, has been stranded just outside Wake, North Carolina, for the past four hours.