This week, a passenger riding a train in India pulled the vehicle’s emergency chain, causing the vehicle to stop in a “neutral zone” — a short length of track with no power in the overhead wires. Though a train’s momentum usually carries it through these short power-free zones, this time luck was not with the engineer. With only 12 feet to go until the train could reach sweet electricity, the driver did what he had to do: he asked his passengers to get out and push.
It took more than 1½ hours to move the stalled train the short distance. According to Deepak Kumar Jha, a spokesman for Indian Railways, “In so many years of service in the railways, I have never come across such a bizarre incident.”
Hmmm…somehow I doubt that.