It Was Like Swimming Through Black Smoke
Similar scenes were played out in other trains too. On the 9 a.m. Amtrak from Philadelphia to New York, half the passengers got off and decided to go back home. One elderly couple from Philadelphia was particularly upset by the news. “We’ll never get to see the show!” the woman wailed. “We had such a nice trip planned.” The two had tickets to “The Producers.” Workers at the high-rise Penn Plaza fled their building as building security announced that they should evacuate....