Chanban Keswarkar, and Karthikeyan Karur Balu wait for a train to Boston at Penn Station during a snowstorm in New York. Balu said that the bus they originally planned on taking back was canceled and the Amtrak train, at the time, was an hour and 45 minutes late.

First published in the December 26, 2010, 10:15 p.m. edition

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