Transportation For Amtrak Train 188 riders, the world turned upside down in a flash
Not Now Transportation For Amtrak Train 188 riders, the world turned upside down in a flash Amtrak train from D.C. derails in Philadelphia View Photos Seven people were killed in the crash Tuesday night. By Paul Schwartzman , T. Rees Shapiro and Michael Laris May 13 at 9:31 PM The bump-bump-bump sounded like someone falling down a flight of stairs, a brief, rhythmic clatter that turned into a catastrophic boom and suddenly halted Amtrak’s Northeast Regional Train 188. In the next instant, everything and everyone aboard the train — a cut of humanity that included the grandmother in her seat, the couple from Singapore in theirs, a former congressman in the cafe car — began tipping over, then tumbling and crashing into a contorted mess of steel. “Am I going to die?” Andrew Cheng, 64, asked himself, as he landed on his wife, seated next to him in the fifth of the train’s six cars. A...