Good evening im Ukee Washington im jessica dean. Eyewitness reporter groegdz greg argos is live in center city. Reporter there was panic with passengers here on Regional Rail line, they were on a train they thought was in a real emergency, they decided to self evacuate that vehicle right there. That train car, and that decision caused big headaches for thousands of commuters. Passengers at the 30th street station seeing red during the evening commute im a little frustrated but i cant do anything about it. Reporter anger and frustration over massive delays, some well past the hour mark. Because of a total system shutoff at 5 35 we received reports that passengers were starting to evacuate from the train. Reporter lets back up 15 minutes when septas assistant general manager said the train lost power for some unknown reason, a breaker tripped not once but twice ylikely trishinged the passengers to believe something was wrong. They thought there may have been a fire and with possibly no c
Passengers at the 30th street station seeing red during the evening commute im a little frustrated but i cant do anything about it. Reporter anger and frustration over massive delays, some well past the hour mark. Because of a total system shutoff at 5 35 we received reports that passengers were starting to evacuate from the train. Reporter lets back up 15 minutes when septas assistant general manager said the train lost power for some unknown reason, a breaker tripped not once but twice ylikely trishinged the passengers to believe something was wrong. They thought there may have been a fire and with possibly no communication from the crew to those inside. Do you know if anything was said at all i dont know. Reporter those passengers opened emergency windows and dropped four to six feet on to active rail lines. For that reason we had to stop service through center city. Reporter which leads us back to the red, delays and thousands of passengers stuck for waiting for the ride home they