After stepping off at the station in Eugene, Ore., Amtrak passenger Emilie Wyrick told NPR she was thrilled to be 'just moving' her legs.
, Amtrak apologized to customers for the"extended delay," blaming"extreme weather issues" consisting of"more than a foot of heavy snow and numerous trees blocking the track."
The region was hit with a rare heavy snowstorm over the weekend, with accumulations reaching about a foot by Monday,Tim McMahan, a spokesman for Union Pacific, which owns the rail line, told NPR that crews worked through Monday night to clear the tracks so that a locomotive could pull the Amtrak train northward — a change of course for what had been a Los Angeles-bound journey.
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