"I looked out the window and saw a shower of sparks coming out the side of the train," Exum said. "Pretty quickly, the train came to a halt and the Amtrak folks rushed forward. mused Steve Rosen, 45, who had just arrived in Penn Station on an Amtrak train from Philadelphia. 31, 2018 - A train carrying several members of Congress crashes into a garbage truck in Charlottesville, Va., killing a passenger in the truck.Feb. 4, 2018 - An engineer following orders from a dispatcher puts his train on the wrong track in Cayce, SC, where it crashes into a freight train, killing two crewmen on the passenger locomotive.