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An armed man got into a locomotive on an Amtrak train passing through southwest Nebraska early Saturday and pulled the emergency brake while about 175 passengers were on board, authorities say.

Deputies from Furnas and Harlan counties responded to the incident in Oxford around 1:54 a.m. after being alerted that the eastbound California Zephyr was in emergency response mode, Furnas County Sheriff Kurt Kapperman said in a news release.

Oxford is 23 miles southwest of Holdrege.

Amtrak staff detained Taylor M. Wilson, 25, of St. Charles, Missouri, and turned him over to the Furnas County Sheriff’s Department, the release said.

Kapperman's deputies found a loaded Smith and Wesson .38-caliber revolver on Wilson’s waistband and a speed loader for the weapon in his pocket. They also seized two bags containing three more speed loaders, a box of ammo for the revolver, a knife, tin snips, scissors and a ventilation mask, Kapperman said.

Wilson was traveling from Sacramento, California, to St. Louis, and somehow got into the second locomotive and stopped the train using the emergency brake, the release said.