Originally Posted by
CKinMD
In all my years riding Amtrak, I've never experienced this. I've been on plenty of trains that needed to be rescued via other engines and towed into stations, but never a direct train to train transfer.
I'd never experienced a "rescue" in 30+ years of riding Amtrak until last year. Immediately after the huge snowstorms that hit DC & Phila in February 2010 -- or rather, as soon as Amtrak resumed service northbound out of DC -- I took an Acela to Phila. Somewhere in Delaware we pulled alongside another train that had apparently hit a snowbank & suffered sufficient damage to put it out of commission. (I'm guessing an electrical box and/or cabling was damaged; the train did not derail.) We took on an extra 200+ pax, creating an intimate SRO situation.