An Amtrak train travelling through Northern Washington hit a fallen tree, causing the tree to impale the train's front windshield Tuesday night during a major bomb cyclone storm, authorities said.

An Amtrak engineer escaped serious injury when a tree impaled the front cab of a train caught in Tuesday’s bomb cyclone windstorm near Seattle.

The train was on the way from Vancouver to Seattle on Tuesday when it struck a tree that had fallen on the tracks, heavily damaging the cab.

An Amtrak engineer was nearly impaled after the train struck a fallen tree as a powerful storm hit Washington, the railroad company said. The incident happened at about 7:50 p.m. Nov. 19 in Silvana, a spokesperson for Amtrak said in a release.

The cab of an Amtrak Cascades train was heavily damaged after striking a tree that had fallen onto the tracks during Tuesday night's windstorm.

An Amtrak train traveling from Vancouver B.C. to Seattle struck a tree near 212th Street Northwest and Knutson Road near Stanwood Tuesday night, according to Amtrak officials. The incident occurred around 8:30 p.