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Local Amtrak conductor weighs in on derailment
Bay News 9 ^ | May 14, 2015 | Holly Gregory

Posted on 05/14/2015 6:56:31 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative

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To: indthkr
If the wreak had caused the windshield damage, I would have expected the windshield damage to be distributed on both sides.

There's also external damage to that car, but that's only on the right side as well.

61 posted on 05/14/2015 8:43:22 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

The man was seriously messed up. A sane man doesn’t post this type of self porn to the internet.

You can substitute the letters for the asterisks to go to the link, but you might not want porn on your computer.

http://gotnews.com/breaking-nsfw-here-are-amtrak-engineer-brandonbostians-disturbing-d**k-pics/


62 posted on 05/14/2015 8:43:23 PM PDT by FR_addict (Boehner needs to go!)
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To: Flag_This

The odds of throwing a heavy brick, with such force as to do damage, from a distance not to get run over by the train, while it’s going by at 100 mph...is near zero.


63 posted on 05/14/2015 8:53:44 PM PDT by Swanks
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To: Swanks

Exactly. His concussion came because his cab rolled several times.


64 posted on 05/14/2015 9:06:58 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

There are ways for a train to go into emergency stop without human intervention, if the conditions merit.


65 posted on 05/14/2015 9:23:06 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

Those are *great* cab photos. Thanks for positing them.


66 posted on 05/14/2015 9:24:45 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.)
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To: Fester Chugabrew

—>posting<—


67 posted on 05/14/2015 9:25:33 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

If some thug threw a fairly big sized rock that blasted through the window of a moving train and knocked the drive out....the Yankees need to find this thug and sign him to a ten-year contract as a starting pitcher.


68 posted on 05/14/2015 9:52:40 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

Knowing this short of rock trowing or brick trowing does happen one would think that the builders of those engines would have put bullet proof glass or plexiglass on those windows.

Bird trikes happen all the time on those engines I have seen it my self while riding in one of those engines.

The newer Acelia Trains should have bullet proof glass or plexiglass in those windows.

This is BS, they are covering up something.

Amtrak would not knowingly put glass windows on those that would brake or shatter.

The windows on the passenger cars are bullet proof or plexiglass..

Someone is freaking lying.

This engineer did not pass out from a head injury.


69 posted on 05/14/2015 9:54:51 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (BeThe Keystone Pipe lik ProjectR : build it already Congre)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

The only way a rock or brick could have hit him in the head is if he had that side window open.

Going 106 miles an hour you do not want that window open.

Where is the X-rays and hospital proof that he was hit in the head with something ?

He is lying.


70 posted on 05/14/2015 9:59:35 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (BeThe Keystone Pipe lik ProjectR : build it already Congre)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

A servalance camera will prove whether a brick could have came through the window or not.

How come they haven’t released the video evidence yet ?

A brick or rock coming through that window even at 50 miles an hour would have seriously injured him or killed him.

His story does not hold water.


71 posted on 05/14/2015 10:04:04 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (BeThe Keystone Pipe lik ProjectR : build it already Congre)
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To: caww

Shadows of Germanwings past..... except in this case this person survived.

A lot of speculation happens since Germanwings last month when he won’t allow the NTSB to speak with him.


72 posted on 05/14/2015 10:10:20 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (BeThe Keystone Pipe lik ProjectR : build it already Congre)
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To: Cementjungle

Windshield is most likely made of bullet proof material or plexiglass.

Those engines experience bird strikes every day.

Remember, the engineer never said he was hit by anything, he only said ( lawyer most likely told him to say that ) that he doesn’t remember anything.


73 posted on 05/14/2015 10:14:37 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (BeThe Keystone Pipe lik ProjectR : build it already Congre)
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To: American Constitutionalist

It doesn’t matter whether he recalls anything or not. Once they download the black box, it will tell them everything they need to know.


74 posted on 05/14/2015 10:17:50 PM PDT by sport
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To: erlayman
applying the brake is an action....the engineer did it....he wasn't knocked out at that point, if ever...

seems the media totally are covering for this guy....

if he fell asleep, then just say it....its an accident...

if he was doing something else and not paying attention, its a whole different story....

the cell phone records will tell...

and besides, are we to believe that this was the first time this engineer took that route?....that he didn't know about the curve or the speed limits?....

stinks to high heaven....

75 posted on 05/15/2015 12:47:07 AM PDT by cherry
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To: caww

does it matter to you to know a little bit about this guys character?....because he posts pictures of his little head on the internet.....does that show good judgment and common sense to you?....


76 posted on 05/15/2015 12:48:55 AM PDT by cherry
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

if a brick was thrown by a human being with the train going that fast the windshield would crack but I doubt the brick would go any farther....


77 posted on 05/15/2015 12:51:39 AM PDT by cherry
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To: MeshugeMikey
the DBM has a really big problem...they either have to conjure this story up about inner city yutes throwing stuff to derail a train or they have to throw the gay engieneer under the train so to speak...

who they gonna protect?

78 posted on 05/15/2015 12:53:59 AM PDT by cherry
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To: Fester Chugabrew; FredZarguna; The Ghost of FReepers Past; FR_addict; ROCKLOBSTER
Those are *great* cab photos.

Yes they are. However none of them are of the cab of an ASC64. It looks like this:

Or, there's this one with Ol Joe checking out his future career...

Amtrak Cities Sprinter - ACS-64

79 posted on 05/15/2015 1:05:16 AM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

Yoots!


80 posted on 05/15/2015 4:12:40 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (WSC: The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end...)
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