The Charlotte Fire Department put out a fire on an Amtrak train car early Saturday morning after passengers noticed smoke filling the cabin.
It happened around 2:23 a.m. near the Charlotte Amtrak station off of N. Tryon Street. Firefighters arrived and confirmed the smoke, then they started working on evacuating passengers.
Fire crews found one train car with the brakes on fire. CFD said the fire was only in the brake pads and didn’t spread to the rest of the train car…