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Has any one exspierienced anything weird on Amtrak, besides thinking the train is going in reverse. Sometimes when I have been asleep on a long distance train, all of a sudden I wake up realy fast and have a very, very, stong feeling that my coach or the entire train is going to derail and flip over and crash and blow up or get all smashed up and that its gonna happen at any second and theres nothing I can do about it. But the feeling is so strong that you start to pannic when you havent even left your seat, but then after about 7 seconds it goes away just as fast as it started.
Also one time, just sitting my seat and suddenly blood just starts gushing from my knees, elbows, and just from benieth the finger nails, has any one exspierienced that before?
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Some rough track is out there but never had anything this dramatic.
I've been on two different trains that have gone into emergency braking but there were no accidents or collisions. The trains just slowed down quickly; it was not a bunch of panicked nonsense like they show on TV.
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Jonathan, it seems you have potential as an imaginative scary movie writer.
Reflections in the train windows spook me at night. Sometimes I am trying to make out something in the distance that turns out to be a reflection from the other side, things that move in the wrong direction.
Is there a Bermuda triangle for trains?
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quote:Originally posted by JONATHON: TV nonsense?, this really happened.
Your description was over the top, so it sounded like you had watched too many movies.
When Fox re-dramatized the BNSF/Metrolink collision in Atwood they made it look much worse than it really was, even though they included real footage from a security camera. I know the deaths and injuries were real, but Fox just put way too much of a Hollywood spin on it.
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Just about anything can run through your head when you are traumatically awakened, especially when you're young and creative like J here. What's so unusual about a rude awakening when you're twelve years old anyway?
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One time some friends and I were on the (then)Southwest Limited,and we met a man in the diner who was an Amtrak engineer,and he bought our dinners for us.
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