3 cars on Amtrak train with 311 passengers derail, none hurt
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Three cars on an Amtrak train carrying more than 300 people from Miami to New York derailed in snowy Savannah, Georgia, in the aftermath of a brutal winter storm but no injuries were reported, authorities said early Thursday.
Amtrak spokesman Jason Abrams said the Silver Meteor train No. 98 was backing slowly into the Savannah station about 10pm Wednesday—hours after the storm clobbered the Southeast coast—when two sleeper cars and a baggage car derailed.
"All three cars -- a baggage car and two sleeper cars—are fully upright," Abrams said in an email early Thursday.
He said there were 311 passengers on board, in addition to crew, but he had no reports of anyone hurt.
