Yes, this reminds me of the awful chain of events that happened when I was on an Amtrak train that ran over someone on the tracks in the middle of the desert just outside of Winslow AZ: the train stayed in place for 10 hours, was not allowed to move, no one was allowed on or off, the porters kept not telling us what was really going on, once the train was finally allowed to move, it went just a short distance (like 20 minutes) and pulled up outside a restaurant/bar that was next to the tracks, and then we found out that the current crew (conductor, engineer etc.) were maxed on the number of hours they could work in a row, and that no one at Amtrak had "seen that coming" and a replacement crew had been assembled at the last minute and was somewhere driving across the AZ desert in a mini-van to get to our train, and 2 hours later when they arrived we all thought "okay we can be on our way now", but no, Amtrak's authorization to use the train tracks had expired, and we waited another 2 - 3 hours before we got the authorization and had to have the actual physical authorization papers driven to the train, and so after being delayed 20 hours, I finally bailed and had my sister's girlfriend drive halfway across the state to pick me up and get me to their house with about 2 hours of time left before my sister's graduate school graduation ceremony began, which was the whole reason I was traveling there in the first place.

Needless to say, this put me off traveling on Amtrak ever since, except for the short trips between Seattle and Portland, and no, I don't have much sympathy at all for the poor schmucks who manage to get run over at least once a month in WA state because they are too dumb to get off the train tracks. I'd be fine with suing all of their families for the inconvenience they cause.

Yayyy! mass transit ftw! (And hipsters here wonder why the VAST MAJORITY of the public will never accept mass fucksit as a daily viable transportation option)

but keep on tryin' folks!

we always need a laugh when commentors here suggest it!