RICHMOND, Va. — Passenger train service through Amtrak’s station in Henrico County was halted yesterday because of a small duffel bag that apparently had been accidentally left on an Amtrak train that ended its run at the station Saturday night, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports.
At last four Amtrak passenger trains were delayed yesterday while Henrico police bomb technicians examined the bag.
Henrico police Sgt. Thomas Shumate said the bag contained no bomb.
“It had clothing and toilet articles and an electric razor that had been rewired,” Shumate said last night.
He said a cleaning crew found the bag Saturday night and put it in the station’s lost-and-found. By 3 p.m. yesterday, when no one had claimed the bag, he said, Amtrak officials called Henrico police.
Bomb technicians x-rayed the bag and saw the rewired razor, which led to the evacuation of the station about 5 p.m., Shumate said.
Meanwhile, Amtrak halted service through the station.
An Amtrak official said at least four trains — including trains traveling between Boston and Newport News, New York and Miami and New York and Richmond — were held up.
Normal traffic was resumed about 8 p.m.
A spokesman for CSX Transportation Inc. said the incident had little impact on freight service. Spokesman Robert Gould said Sunday is “not a heavy day, usually.”