FLASHBACK: FBI Warns of Train Derailment Threat

GATEWAY PUNDIT ^ | May 13, 2015 | Jim Holt

[sport]

To be effective, acts of sabotage, must not appear as acts of sabotage. That being said, I would add to your reasons, no law enforcement official has announced, " Terrorist act not suspected in this incident", or "No evidence of terrorism uncovered." When and if this or words to the effect of them are made public, you can bank on it being terrorism.

[MeshugeMikey]

this IS the first incident in years that hasnt immediately been deemed not terror related.....

[Myrddin]

The train was going 100 MPH. The entrance speed for the curve was 70 MPH. The max speed in the curve was 50 MPH. The terrorist was the train engineer. I think he's dead.

[FreedomPoster]

If it was terrorism, the train engineer was in on it, based on the early reports of the train’s speed being much higher, as high as 2X, than the allowable maximum speed on that section of track.

[Myrddin]

Automation exists and is used on many freight runs. The number of qualified engineers is falling. The railroads have been building expert systems and using expert engineers to train them. It's not a glamorous job. There has been trouble attracting talent.

[Albion Wilde]

I grok it.....................

Out of the memory hole and across the interwebs —LOL!!! I had just about forgotten that... thanks for the blip from days long gone.

[MeshugeMikey]

strange that we dont know his name as yet....as far as I have bee able to determine..

if its Ackmed...Mohammed or Abdul...hes a suspect...

[MeshugeMikey]

this just in

the train’s thats TRAINS not TRANS....engineer....... is a Gay Activist...

http://gotnews.com/breaking-gotnews-ids-gay-activist-train-engineer-who-caused-amtrak-crash/

[MeshugeMikey]

http://gotnews.com/breaking-gotnews-ids-gay-activist-train-engineer-who-caused-amtrak-crash/Gotnews.com has independently identified the engineer at the center of the Amtrak crash that has killed at least seven.

Brandon Bostian is the 32-year-old gay man who lawyered up after a deadly derailment in Philadelphia. The train was reportedly going twice the speed limit.

Bostian is a gay activist who previously worked at Target as a cashier before joining Amtrak, according to his LinkedIn.

Read more at http://bit.ly/1F89Js9

well isnt that special

a gay jihad??

[Myrddin]

His work history indicates over 4 years on the job as a "passenger engineer". There really isn't any excuse. He's "lawyered up" because he knows he F'ed up.

[MeshugeMikey]

I think that he was texting...was completely distracted...and doesnt dare own that for fear of losing his job.

Id bet there are records of his texting.

[Myrddin]

It's a reasonable suspicion that a smart phone distraction is part of the mix. It has happened in a few other train wrecks.

[TBall]

http://conservativerefocus.com/blogs/blog5.php/2015/05/13/fbi-bulletin-of-five-days

[Myrddin]

I'm well aware of derail devices. I spent 10 years doing special projects for the Federal Railroad Administration to improve railroad safety. Most of my work was onboard monitoring systems to detect defects in real time and a secondary effort to generate data histories on rail cars that would permit detection of defects that could be scheduled for routine maintenance. The last part of the program was around automating the cutlever, handbrake setting and anglecock setting to that injuries to the switchman and brakeman assigned to a given car could be avoided. The project was progressing nicely until January 20th, 2009 when the new administration pulled the rug out from the program. To this day, my basement has leftover equipment from my design lab that FRA had no funds to recover. The project cars for the automation effort have been rusting away in a yard near Joliet, IL. The 5 cars used to do bearing analysis on runs to the coal mines/power plants have been lost in the field to derailments. My colleague who developed the DSP routines to do the bearing analysis died from cancer in January 2010. I'm left with the software, design notes and some seriously "over the hill" hardware.