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Run-no-way train

“Looks like long night ahead.”

When TV reporter Stephen Tschida tweeted that message on a stalled New York-bound Amtrak train, he had no idea how long — and cold — a night it would be on the train ride from hell.

Tschida and the 400 other passengers on board Train 188 got stuck between Baltimore and Philadelphia for almost eight hours overnight into yesterday morning with little heat, little power and little provisions.

“This whole night is like some weird agonizing hallucination,” read another tweet.

Amtrak officials blamed the delay on a commercial power line that fell on top of Amtrak’s overhead power wires about 10 miles south of Wilmington, Del.

Tschida and others complained the railroad kept them in the dark.

“No one is telling us anything!” Tschida said in another tweet.

The ABC 7/WJLA-TV News reporter told The Post, “I was thirsty, hungry and cold — and there were a lot of other people in the same boat.”

“It was horrible. It was an hour-and-a-half trip that took 10 hours. The uncertainty was the most horrific part, because you just didn’t know what was happening.”

Passengers said that the train would periodically move forward — and then backward — but that most of the time it sat idle, without any explanation from crew members about what was happening.

At one point, an angry passenger became so incensed that he seemed ready to slug a conductor, forcing the Amtrak employee to back away.

“1 man grabbed intercom demanded answers. Another started screaming we have 2 get home,” Tschida tweeted.

Also aboard the train was a veteran of nightmare travel experiences, Justin Gordon.

In March, the 24-year- old law student was aboard a Virgin America flight from Los Angeles to JFK that resulted in travelers’ being delayed 16 hours.

That “flightmare” resulted in furious passengers running so low on supplies that they were near tears and had to ration Pringles chips before being rescued.

“This time, there weren’t any Pringles or water — only cups of ice,” Gordon said.

He got on board the train in Washington at 7:10 p.m., expecting to arrive in Philadelphia at 9:04 p.m. He and Tschida wound up getting there at 4:28 a.m. The train arrived at Penn Station at 6:13 a.m. — seven hours and 41 minutes late.

Amtrak spokesman Steven Coleman said the railroad was attempting to assess how the emergency was handled.

Tschida was back on Amtrak — and Twitter — last night.

“Exhausted, but back on a TRAIN. Keep fingers crossed,” he wrote.

ABC reporter Stephen Tschida (below) tweeted from aboard ill-fated Amtrak train 188, which left Washington, DC, at 7:24 p.m. Thursday, lost power 10 miles south of Wilmington, Del., and didn’t arrive in Philadelphia until 4:28 a.m. yesterday.

“En route phili. Train broke down. Terrrible, cold, no info.

Train stalled again. Pitch black all around, cold air blowing on me. It’s like twilight zone

OMG backing up all the way 2 baltimore. Asked what then, conductor said “don’t know.” Asked about heat, he shrugged.

1 man grabbed intercom demanding answers. Another started screaming we have 2 get home.

Oh God. Can see Phili, but train has stopped again. Really it just does not end!

philip.messing@nypost.com