September 12, 2005
The Last Train and Another Lost Opportunity
The more you look the uglier it gets. Flooded and useless buses, blocked food and water and now a missed train.
In fact, while the last regularly scheduled train out of town had left a few hours earlier, Amtrak had decided to run a "dead-head" train that evening to move equipment out of the city. It was headed for high ground in Macomb, Miss., and it had room for several hundred passengers. "We offered the city the opportunity to take evacuees out of harm's way," said Amtrak spokesman Cliff Black. "The city declined."Sometimes you wonder if they seriously wanted people to leave town.So the ghost train left New Orleans at 8:30 p.m., with no passengers on board.
Posted by Sid at September 12, 2005 12:02 AM | Disasters
