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500 passengers spend night on stranded Amtrak trains
More than 500 passengers spent the night aboard three Amtrak trains stranded 80 miles west of Chicago by ice and snow that had drifted over the tracks, officials said. The trains -- the Southwest Chief from Los Angeles, the Illinois Zephyr from Quincy and the California Zephyr from the San Francisco Bay area - were halted around 5 p.m. Monday near Mendota, according to Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari.
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Nice to hear that the trains' staff did right by their passengers.