For several frightening minutes, as sparks flew and smoke filled the cars, passengers did not know what had happened. The door, only feet from where he sat, had been knocked off his car as the train crashed into a wall. “Smoke filled the entire car.”He said people were having trouble breathing and some passengers opened windows. But that caused more smoke to pour in, he said, so they closed the windows again. PhotoFor Mr. Lhota, who is only days into a job he has held once before, the derailment was an inauspicious beginning.

Source: New York Times June 27, 2017 15:27 UTC