The train, carrying 183 passengers, hit a fallen tree on the track east of Eugene, Ore., and was forced to stop as a snowstorm came through the area.
An Amtrak train in rural Oregon was extricated on Tuesday morning after its 183 passengers had been stranded since Sunday evening because of a winter storm that dropped a foot of snow and toppled trees, according to Amtrak.
Crews from Amtrak and Union Pacific, which owns the tracks, worked through Monday and into Tuesday to clear trees, power lines and snow and reach the passenger train with a new locomotive. That engine, provided by Union Pacific, was connected to the train around sunrise on Tuesday and began pulling the Amtrak train to the closest station, about 30 miles away in Eugene, Ore., according to Union Pacific and Amtrak.
“We’re moving slowly, so things are looking up,” Carly Bigby, a passenger on the train, said in an interview on Tuesday. “We’re all ready to get off.”
The train is expected to arrive in Eugene around noon local time, she said.
The Amtrak train, the No. 11 train on the Coast Starlight route along the Pacific Coast from Seattle to Los Angeles, pulled out of the Eugene station around 5:10 p.
