The World - News from Jan. 29, 1986
A Rome-to-Venice overnight express train caught fire and was forced to stop in a tunnel shortly after leaving Rome. Most of the 400 passengers escaped unhurt. A passenger aboard the 16-coach train spotted the flames and pulled the emergency brake shortly before the train entered the tunnel near Capena station, about 15 miles northeast of Rome. All but two coaches were inside the 550-yard tunnel when the train stopped.
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