Workers are trying to free an Amtrak train with 183 passengers aboard that has been stuck since Sunday after hitting a tree that fell on the tracks near Eugene, Ore.
Amtrak’s Coast Starlight train pulls into the San Luis Obispo station in August 2012.
“It’s just like relief. I’m just excited to get off of here,” Abbie Jeffrey, 16, told television station KGW.The Coast Starlight train left Seattle for Los Angeles early Sunday. It hit the tree southeast of Eugene, Ore., later that evening. The 183 passengers were kept on the train because the heavy snow had knocked out power in the town of Oakridge, the closest populated place to the train, Amtrak said in a statement.
Rebekah Dodson boarded the train Sunday afternoon in the small Oregon city of Albany and had expected to be in Klamath Falls by 9:50 p.m.
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