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What We Know About Engineer of Derailed AMTRAK Train
ABC Local News - Philly ^ | May 13, 2015 | by MEGHAN KENEALLY

Posted on 05/13/2015 3:02:36 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I forwarded this article to my boy, who is an engineer on a Western railroad.

He wrote:
“It was either deliberate, or he fell asleep. I tend to think deliberate, since I’m pretty sure that Amtrak’s engines have “alerters” on them. Its an alarm that starts off as a flashing light, then turns to a light and audible alarm that gets louder and louder.
If you don’t hit a button to reset it, it will put the train into emergency braking automatically after about 15 seconds. Its designed to keep the engineer from accidently dozing off.
A couple of our engines have them, and they work..... ask me how I know :-)


61 posted on 05/13/2015 4:25:40 PM PDT by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate. [URL=http://media.photobucket.com/user/currencyjunkie/me)
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To: Cementjungle

The photo of the engineer on CBS tonight showed Bostian sitting in front of the ‘Gay’ banner.


62 posted on 05/13/2015 4:25:53 PM PDT by dogcaller
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To: LegendHasIt

This accident is Dagny’s fault.

If she had rebuilt those tracks with the Rearden Metal instead of wasting it on building the Rio Norte Line to service that capitalist pig and earth raper Ellis Wyatt, after Wesley Mouch and I told her that it was needed in Pennsylvania for the Chick Morrison Special, this wouldn’t have happened.


I quit.


63 posted on 05/13/2015 4:30:14 PM PDT by OwenKellogg (CRUZ to Victory! Donate at tedcruz.org)
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To: dogcaller

He was an affirmative action hire, making the move from working as a cashier at Target to running a choo-choo train. The hussein regime wants to put more incompetent sodomites and muzzies into power. Bostian went to a far-left university and a “church” that preaches the false doctrines of tolerance and social justice. In other words, a typical ‘RAT.


64 posted on 05/13/2015 4:30:16 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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To: dogcaller

If he’s a poofter, maybe he’s got AIDS dementia and wasn’t paying attention to his job.
Either that, or maybe he was texting ahead to NYC for a date.
Or maybe all of the above.


65 posted on 05/13/2015 4:30:20 PM PDT by Radagast the Fool (At my signal, UNLEASH PALIN!!)
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To: Mean Daddy
Whether he’s guilty or not, he’s well within his rights to do so and I would suggest that you would too if you’re in a similar situation.

I agree ,even an honest police detective would agree.

66 posted on 05/13/2015 4:30:59 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: dogcaller

He took his Facebook photo down last night sometime... just a black/blank photo there now.


67 posted on 05/13/2015 4:31:30 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Inquiring Minds already kinda know.
His name will come out, and soon. This is too big to keep bottled up, no matter who you are trying to ‘protect’.
Once we see who it is, we will say, “Oh, now I understand, why they were playing those delaying games.”


68 posted on 05/13/2015 4:32:40 PM PDT by lee martell (The sa)
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To: Oatka

Interesting, thanks for sharing.


69 posted on 05/13/2015 4:32:46 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: tcrlaf

bump #60


70 posted on 05/13/2015 4:35:56 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Usagi_yo

Trouble ahead, trouble behind, Casey Jones, watch your speed. ..


71 posted on 05/13/2015 4:52:27 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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What We Know About Engineer of Derailed AMTRAK Train

He’s either a doper, a texter, or a Muslim extremist ... just sayin ...

About as much as the MSM wanted us to know about George Zimmerman in the day after the shooting of Trayvon.........

Go ahead, jump to your conclusion, I'll wait till all the facts are released maybe 6 or 8 months from now.........

72 posted on 05/13/2015 4:57:50 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (November 2016 shall be set aside as rodent removal month.)
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To: Usagi_yo

Most here...probably don’t know what you mean.


73 posted on 05/13/2015 5:02:04 PM PDT by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: Radagast the Fool

“If he’s a poofter, maybe he’s got AIDS dementia and wasn’t paying attention to his job.
Either that, or maybe he was texting ahead to NYC for a date.
Or maybe all of the above.”

Worse than that, he’s a yankee. A gay yankee.


74 posted on 05/13/2015 5:05:23 PM PDT by davetex (Location: The Alamo)
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To: Cementjungle

Charles C Johnson has found nudie pics of him.


75 posted on 05/13/2015 5:16:04 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
..so I want to ask any leftist, how would adding more money prevent an Engineer from going 106 miles per hour in a 50 mile per hour zone..either the train failed or the engineer was up to no good..
Sounds a lot like the worst accident in NYC Subway history, the Malbone St. wreck on Nov.2 1918, near the old Ebbets Field. A southbound express train on the Brighton Beach line was travelling at 70MPH, an incredible speed for the subway cars of that time, when the dispatcher, who was running the train beacuse of an ongoing motormen's strike tried to negotiate a sharp turn designed for a max speed of 15MPH. The wreck was so horrific Malbone St. was renamed Empire Blvd.
76 posted on 05/13/2015 5:16:07 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

he has crazy eyes, or they just found a real bad picture of him to post


77 posted on 05/13/2015 5:34:02 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: silverleaf
he has crazy eyes, or they just found a real bad picture of him to post

Normally I think that the description of "crazy eyes" is very subjective. But it does appear that one of his eyes is looking at the camera and one isn't.

78 posted on 05/13/2015 5:56:31 PM PDT by wideminded
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The vibe I get off this guy is that he’s just a selfish, apathetic douche. This can’t be the only time he drove the train like this.


79 posted on 05/13/2015 6:09:47 PM PDT by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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To: 11th_VA

I’m pretty sure trains have a dead man’s throttle, in other words you have to keep positive pressure on..so if it was going twice the posted speed limit it have to be a deliberate act


80 posted on 05/13/2015 6:24:49 PM PDT by tophat9000 (An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more)
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