Jeremy Wladis both stared into the night train home from Washington, Tuesday, alternating it at least once a week, his tablet, smart phone her, notebook and pen are arranged in front of it to work.
The train stopped at the curve, and then suddenly, bruises. "I do not think about it, unless you are on the Amtrak train and you do not usually get a bump," he recalls. Then shake, "shaking mad," said Mr Wladis, "everything was rattling, you hear the tears and metals and you think you are going to end up."
As the cars landed on the corner of 30 degrees, two people from several rows back vaulted into the luggage rack on top. Mr Wladis, 51, an owner of several restaurants, snapped up from the hallway to the window seat, and pinned the tray table.
Jeremy Wladis both stared into the night train home from Washington, Tuesday, alternating it at least once a week, his tablet, smart phone her, notebook and pen are arranged in front of her un "People were screaming, 'We got to get off, we got to get off!
'"Mr. Wladis said. Passengers who had managed to hold onto their devices as flashlights held them up while trying to find an exit. A passenger who identified himself as a police officer pushed open a door and began helping people out. People shouted a warning, not to step on the rails, to watch out for the live electrical lines and downed telephone wires.
As people stood on the cars at the back of the train that were resting on their sides, they looked ahead to the first two cars, and realized that the damage was even worse there.
What had been a regular commute for so many throughout the Northeast Corridor - with all its routine and its frustrations - quickly became chaos on Tuesday night when a seven-car Amtrak train derailed as it sped around a curve heading north from Philadelphia.tuk work.
As people stood on the cars at the back of the train that were resting on their sides, they looked ahead to the first two cars, and realized that the damage was even worse there.
What had been a regular commute for so many throughout the Northeast Corridor - with all its routine and its frustrations - quickly became chaos on Tuesday night when a seven-car Amtrak train derailed as it sped around a curve heading north from Philadelphia.tuk work.
The train stopped at the curve, and then suddenly, bruises. "I do not think about it, unless you are on the Amtrak train and you do not normally get cut," he recalls. Then shake, "shaking mad," said Mr Wladis, "everything was rattling, you hear the tears and metals and you think you are going to end up."
As the cars landed on the corner of 30 degrees, two people from several rows back vaulted into the luggage rack on top. Mr Wladis, 51, an owner of several restaurants, snapped up from the hallway to the window seat, and pinned the tray table.
"As we were traveling along I felt the impact and heard a voice and thought: 'What just happened? Does this car is really just an accident?'" He recalls. "My initial thought was: 'This is real. I'm in shock. I could not believe the accident had just happened.'"
"Soon after the accident," Ms. Richards said, "I looked to my left and there was a woman in the hallway and he had blood streaming down his face. He was lying on the floor."
Her train car stayed upright, and Ms. Richards went to the rear of the car to get out. The other passengers were able to open enough so that people can go through. "Passengers who were out were helping to pull us through," he said.
Mr Wladis, who was unhurt, said the shock of the accident Tuesday was that nothing seemed unusual in the moments before the accident.
"There was no warning," he said. "Nothing."
"Soon after the accident," Ms. Richards said, "I looked to my left and there was a woman in the hallway and he had blood streaming down his face. He was lying on the floor."
Her train car stayed upright, and Ms. Richards went to the rear of the car to get out. The other passengers were able to open enough so that people can go through. "Passengers who were out were helping to pull us through," he said.
Mr Wladis, who was unhurt, said the shock of the accident Tuesday was that nothing seemed unusual in the moments before the accident.
"There was no warning," he said. "Nothing."
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