By Bruce Landis
Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- About two dozen Providence and Amtrak officers, including K-9 units and SWAT members, were patrolling Providence's Amtrak station Friday morning.
Providence Police Chief Hugh Clements said the officers were there to "put people at ease."
Meanwhile, about 70 people waiting at the station for trains.
It was going to be a while. Amtrak announced that the Acela Express and Northeast Corridor train service was suspended between Boston and Providence indefinitely. A train arriving from Washington, D.C. was stopped in Providence, where passengers disembarked, and turned around.
Billerica, Mass., resident Marion Smith, with her daughter and grandchildren, had driven from the closed Amtrak station at Route 128 to Providence in hopes of getting a train to New York City for a family visit.