Amtrak Passengers Stranded For 23 Hours

Several Amtrak trains were delayed or cancelled due to frozen equipment.

CBS 2’s Jim Williams reports that some passengers were fortunate. Their Amtrak train was able to leave union station for Milwaukee Tuesday afternoon.

Others were delayed for hours. The worst case – more than 600 passengers trying to get to the Pacific Northwest were stuck on the train and in cold waiting rooms for nearly a day. Some said they had little food and water.

“We kept getting updated notifications that the toilets were frozen, the switching lines were frozen,” a passenger said. “No one really knew what was going on.”

The train finally left Tuesday afternoon – 23 hours late – but would only go as far as St. Paul, Minnesota. more