Someones having a bad day

My wife is currently stuck on a train in Nebraska, seems the train ran into a herd of cattle late last night. Several cows down, train damaged. Not sure how long it will be until they are able to get moving again.

Poor cows were probably just out looking for a blade of green grass and didn't know any better. Glad no one is hurt though. Is this on an Amtrak track? Any idea where about at in Nebraska?

Might make hamburgers profitable, on amtrak!

Technology is amazing, just the fact that you know she is / was stuck and running late is wonderful. When I was a wee tot I was on a train with my Mom going from California to Ohio. We were asleep as it was around 1 or 2 AM when the train began jerking around violently waking everyone up. It was obvious we were no longer moving, but looking out the window all you could see was dark. Finally after quite some time we could see flashing lights and then the conductor came through telling everyone to stay in their seats, that we had hit a car. We were there for hours before we finlly got underway again. Upon arrival at the Depot, we were told what had happened. 4 teenagers racing the train had lost their lives. The conductor told us we could see the damage to the front of the train when we departed, it looked like half the front of the train had been cut away with a torch. Granddad had made several trips to the station to pick us up only to be sent back home with a new estimate of time of arrival. He was not happy, but after finding out what happened he was relieved to know we were OK explaining that the train could have derailed.

Not sure of the exact location. The were heading east back to Chicago and are somewhere in western Nebraska. Apparently there was damage to the underside of several cars. My wife said it sounded like the we're driving through the bushes. Not sure how many cattle were hit, but it sounds like quite a few.

No cow catcher on that engine?

Im on the train right now. Found this thread looking for info about our accident. It is currently 2:10 and we are in Omaha.

Several years ago, my parents took Amtrak from Omaha to Sacramento California. They had several delays, both ways-no one on the train would tell them why. I would go on line, enter their train number, and I would see why there was a delay. I would call my Dad back, then he would know!