Passengers describe ‘smelly, disgusting’ conditions inside train stranded for hours

BATTLE CREEK, MI — For a group of University of Michigan Dearborn students, a train ride from Chicago turned into the “ride from hell.”

Passengers weren’t permitted to leave the train for hours as bathrooms overflowed and temperatures inside the cabins rose, said Tayeful Islam, a 21-year-old student at U of M Dearborn.

“People were crying, having panic attacks,” Islam told MLive…

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