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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Destroying expensive things and killing innocent people?
Some groups are now beyond criticism. Fortunately for him, he belongs to one.
Whitewash begins.
Now a “human interest “ story.
Geezus
For Amtrak Engineer Brandon Bostian, Childhood Passion Became a Career
And now he can’t remember anything.
Gee, it sounds like he almost knew he would have to crash his train some day. Seriously though, listening to this guy and the NYT, I am increasingly convinced that Democrats, en masse, have no conscience. He was asleep AND it’s all the Republicans fault. Talk about old, worn out excuses.
“For Amtrak Engineer Brandon Bostian, Childhood Passion Became a Career”
Any guesses what the headline might have been if the guy was found to be a Tea Party Conservative? Anyone.
Where’s the human interest stories of the 8 people he killed, and the 200 he put in the hospital.......bet they and their grieving loved ones would like a little sympathy about now.
Just when I think the New York Times couldn’t disgust me more.....!
This one is like Bowe Bergdalh wrapped in a rainbow flag.
Isn’t that the kindest, dearest, sweetest little old headline you’ve ever seen? This precious little misfit loved his trains and fresh air. toot, toot! And little junior was “distraught” when him went bump, and now him can’t remember....
That mean ole train ran away with little boy blue and those wascally Wepublicans caused it.
Except for the main character in this death spiral, the media is the next sickest example of cognitive reality ever.
Everything is warm and fuzzy if you’re one of their social, cultural, religious, political perverts.
Really. That didn't take long. He's probably already talking with Hollywood executives to work out a movie deal to produce a film about his wonderful life and how the evil Republicans caused his little accident.
For Amtrak Engineer Brandon Bostian, Childhood Passion Became a Career...What?...going to jail for life?
Beep Beep.....zoooooooooom!
Brandons Big Dream!!
ahahahaha GREAT SHOT!!!
Captain Jihad
by the way I did not alter any of the advertising “copy” in that image....its all as it was publisehd many decades ago..
it almost seems it was written...ESPECIALLY for lil Bran Bran..
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