Some 1,350 passengers found themselves spending the night on trains stranded in Japan's northern Niigata Prefecture on Sunday, according to The Japan Times.
The trains were stranded by a power outage resulting from heavy snowstorms.

The outage also prompted West Japan Railway Co. to call back a train that had departed for Echigo-Yuzawa Station from Kanazawa. Upon the train's return to Kanazawa Station, the 85 passengers were moved to another train in which to spend the night and were given rice balls and blankets.
Heavy snow in the area has disrupted train services along a section connecting Kanazawa and Niigata Prefectures, which remained suspended on Monday morning.
Comment: Temperatures have been declining for the past 16 years and it looks like that is going to continue, so we will probably be seeing much more of the above scenarios.
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