The approximately 400 passengers who were stranded in the Sierra Nevada on Saturday are on their way to the destination after the line was cleared. A large snowplow had fallen through the tracks and caused the block.

The snowplow blocked two Amtrak trains initially on Friday night, but one of them was pulled to Reno and its 165 passengers were up in a hotel, according to Karina Romero, spokeswoman for Amtrak.

The second train, which was headed from Emeryville, Calif., to Chicago, couldn’t be taken from there. Only 60 of its passengers were taken by bus to the San Francisco Bay Area overnight. The rest of the passengers, 155 of them, had to stay on the train for the night and hope that the line would reopen as soon as possible.

Some of the people who remained on that train slept in reserved sleeping cars, but the other had to settle for their seats, which can become very uncomfortable when one has to spend the entire night.

However, the passengers were taken care off. Ms. Romero said that the train had heating and lights and the passenger were given food.

The intervention teams managed to clear the tracks early Saturday and the Amtrak train resumed its voyage at about 8 a.m. its passengers will probably arrive in Chicago Monday morning with a 16 hours delay.

Reporters interviewed several passengers and their accounts were different. Some weren’t very angry about the whole deal and said they had sleeping cabins and were comfortable. Other passengers felt neglected during the ordeal.

"Being in the last car we had no heat, no blankets. We asked for water, never got water. (It was my) first time on Amtrak and my last," said passenger Pat Sullivan for the Reno Gazette-Journal.