Posted on 05/14/2015 1:27:07 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
For Brandon Bostian, the engineer in the fatal Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia this week, a childhood passion for trains turned into a career.
Growing up outside Memphis, Mr. Bostian was an “unabashed nerd,” said Lee Allen, his best friend through middle school and high school.
“When you heard the name Brandon Bostian, the first thing you would think is trains,” Mr. Allen said on Thursday. “His walls were covered with pictures, he had several model sets. Sometimes we’d just go down to the tracks that ran through town and watch trains and shoot the breeze.”
Mr. Bostian was at the controls on Tuesday night when an Amtrak train hurtled off a sharp curve in north Philadelphia, killing eight people and injuring more than 200. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating to determine why the train was traveling at 106 miles per hour — more than double the speed limit — when it derailed.
Mr. Bostian, 32, who lived in Queens, began working for Amtrak nearly a decade ago, first as a conductor and then as an engineer, Mr. Allen said. His lawyer, Robert Goggin, told ABC News on Thursday morning that Mr. Bostian did not remember the crash and was “distraught” to learn of what happened.
On the online forums of trainorders.com, a writer who signed many of his posts as “Brandon” routinely criticized railroad companies for not doing more to prevent accidents. Details strongly suggest the posts were by Mr. Bostian — the subjects and locations of the posts correspond to the places he lived and the jobs he has had at Amtrak. In a cached version of a deleted topic page, other members of the site identified Mr. Bostian by name and his online handle, saying he was the conductor of the train that derailed.
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Meaning he was a reckless homo as a teenager, too?
1. He’s gay? I never would have guessed from the picture. That’s like guessing that Barney Frank was gay - miraculous.
2. I don’t think driving a train is his career any more.
flaming !!
Maybe he will try to get his old job back at target now?
The fact that there is another AMTRAK engineer out there who thinks that "it could have been any one of us" is scary. (I may walk to DC the next time I need to get there.)
This horrible event began to change all that. Watch.
Yikes...I am starting to get a feeling that he is like the nutcase that flew the jet into the alps....
I either got make jokes out of these insane fiascos or go down in flames..
Thanks!
The NYT will go to any lengths to protect a homosexual.
Next year around this time, the NTSB will find that it was a faulty disgronificator that caused the crash, which is related to the Republicans hating Obama by not giving him more money to waste.
8:5 odds.
5.56mm
With all those smart MSM journalists digging for stories it should be easy peasy to interview friends and family to ascertain who exactly it was that raped or molested him.
“The NYT will go to any lengths to protect a homosexual.”
Little Pinch says so.
5.56mm
Not anymore.
He may not even remember. or he may think it was his imagination...
A touching story. Now arrest him on eight counts of manslaughter, along with any other applicable charges.
Funny, I don’t see articles like this when a Police officer is involved in a fatal shooting incident. What explains the difference? Let me think......
So his passion was to engineer a bullet train?
What if a gay police officer kills an unarmed Black heterosexual? PC PARADOX!!!
His childhood passion....being a man whore in a men’s prison?
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