River North, Chicago
Tonight the train stopped and some recording came on and said “sorry for the delay blah blah blah” and then we didn’t move and it came on again.. and then the driver got come on and said “sorry for the delay, there’s a small track fire ahead.” We looked out the window and could definitely see smoke and some small flames on the track next to us. Our driver (I think) got out and was bashing it with a stick or something and then went back and got a fire extinguishers and sprayed it. Two fire extinguishers. I don’t know if the first one ran out, or what. A bit later I noticed the firefighters on the ground. The woman behind me on the train said they’d been there the whole time and that they were laughing. Nice.
4 responses so far ↓
1 dre // Mar 21, 2007 at 11:28 am
I think I was on the train behind you. They actually got the situation handled fairly quickly. We were only standing still for a few minutes. Our driver said, “We apologize for the delay. There was a small fire on the maintenance track: to the right of our train.”
2 rachelle // Mar 21, 2007 at 11:39 am
yeh, it was not bad.. but i still dont like to see smoke and flames next to me!
3 dre // Mar 21, 2007 at 12:12 pm
I think I was on the train behind you. They actually got the situation handled fairly quickly. We were only standing still for a few minutes. Our driver said, “We apologize for the delay. There was a small fire on the maintenance track: to the right of our train.”
4 dre // Mar 21, 2007 at 12:13 pm
Oops! Sorry about that double post. Stupid refresh button.
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