Scary moments for SEPTA passengers traveling in Delaware County after a Regional Rail train caught fire.
About 350 passengers on board were evacuated and waited at the stop for transportation to their destination.A SEPTA train leaving Philadelphia caught fire somewhere in Delaware County.The train was heading to Delaware when services were halted near Crum Lynne due to the fire about 6:15 Thursday evening.SEPTA officials say it started in the first car of the six-car train.
A woman on the train, Dnasia Buckner, described the scene saying everything was fine when they left Philadelphia, but somewhere between Ridley Park and Norwood, in Delaware County, the car she was riding in began to smell strange."We had to get up and relocate to another car and then we had to get up and relocate again and that’s when I started to see smoke coming from the side of the train.
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