[Scan-DC] Amtrak issue in Alexandria

[Andrew Clegg]

VSP responded with lights and siren. I wonder if they were responding  
to a passenger mutiny situation? I couldn't tell much from the radio  
traffic, which I was trying to hear over my son playing Rock Band. One  
officer on the scene reported 240 passengers (not sure where he got  
that from), and a female officer enroute to the scene reported butting  
heads with Amtrak (on cell phone) over jurisdictional issues.

The first officer on the scene told the dispatcher to wait a minute,  
another train was coming and he couldn't tell if it was on the same  
track. He ended the transmission telling someone to "look out."  
Fortunately he came back on a few long seconds later to report the  
oncoming train was on a different track. I'll have to pull up the RR  
feed archive to go back to the beginning and see what this was all  
about.

Thanks for the update.

Andy

On Feb 14, 2010, at 0:30, b_thom at juno.com wrote:

>
> On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:48:30 -0500 Andrew Clegg <w4jecom at w4je.com>
> writes:
>> VSP is working an Amtrak issue in Alexandria. They have to walk to it
>>
>> and they don't have good radio coverage there. Best I can tell is
>> the
>> train is broken down, and they possibly need to transport the 240
>> passengers by bus.
>
> http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?4,2125144
>
> copied from Richmond Times Dispatch published: February 13, 2010:
>
> Amtrak train bound for Richmond breaks down for at least 6 hours
>
> RICHMOND, VA - An Amtrak train bound for Richmond broke down today  
> just
> outside Alexandria, stranding 111 passengers for hours on dark, cold
> cars.
>
> Train 195, which was due to arrive at the Staples Mill Road station  
> at 5
> p.m., lost power at 3:45 p.m. because of a mechanical problem with the
> locomotive, said Amtrak spokeswoman Karina Romero. The passengers were
> without heat and lights until 8:14 p.m.
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