Posted on 05/13/2015 8:01:38 PM PDT by UCANSEE2
Brandon Bostian, the engineer driving the Amtrak train that derailed in Philadelphia Tuesday night, has no recollection of the crash itself, his attorney told ABC News.
There little likelihood that he had to slow down to get to the junction. the junction is three miles from my house and maybe 6 from 30th street station. i’ve taken trains to new york. they go slow for the most part until they get out where there ain’t nothin. I think he was accelerating the train just like descending into a mountain in a plane.
there are no hills between 30th street and new york on the railroad.
“We saw Mrs. Clinton sitting in her van at a RR crossing, and the train jumped track and took a gravel road.”
where do you see the speed limit of 100 before the curve. these tracks are in the city. About 6 miles from the station. just curious cuz i’ve taken the train and it seems to go slow for a long time before it gets moving. somewhere along I95 and it doesn’t go much faster than traffic.
Thank you.
Memory loss can be real. I was in an accident 30 years ago. Car swerved off the crown of a rain slick road toward a ditch. No memory of sliding into the ditch, the driver trying to gun it out of the ditch, hitting a culvert, being thrown against the ceiling. Woke up realizing I had been in an accident. Had 11 broken ribs and a punctured lung. Three ribs were overlapping and could not be set. The rest were cracked or broken in position. Healed fine. Won a Limbo contest 2 1/2 months later. Oldest contestant. When there is a sudden severe pain, I think that sometimes the brain cannot store the memory. I still have no memory of the missing pieces 30 years leter. I think it is called retrograde amnesia.
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the northeast takes 28 min to get to trenton from philly according to the schedule. it takes 38 min. by car on 95 going about 55 mph. i’ve taken the train and done the drive and that’s about what it does.
I tried to include you when posting Comment #86, but thought that the number 1 was the letter I.
I wonder what the laws are about that. Seems like anyone driving a passenger train or piloting a passenger plane or ship should have to consent in advance to testing in the event of an accident.
He did apply full emergency braking just before the derailment.
My guess is that he was paying attention to something other than driving the train.
If running behind schedule was ever a cause for disciplinary action at Amtrak, there wouldn’t be anyone left to drive those trains.
He was probably on the phone with his husband.
Yes, some of the locomotives have what they call LocoCam. It records the front view and exterior sound. It is used by RR legal departments mostly to be their “Russian DashCam” to show the engineman was sounding the horn and ringing the bell at grade crossing accidents. They do not record the sound inside the cab though because it woukd be too much like listening in on a union meeting on how the engineman and conductor can screw over management.
I can assure you that if I were in his position and knew I had done nothing wrong, I would call a lawyer before giving any statement to any investigators.
How did he survive?
Could this be a euphemism for
“I was texting a minor for our date.”
Will the "It must be the Toyota sudden acceleration issue, manifested in the engine controls" plea work?
Remote control is not the answer, just ask your TV when the batteries run out. When something this size has an error, it is usually the trained (no pun intended) and experienced human that makes the best reactionary decisions because any remote decision making is a model of possible scenarios.
How many times have you seen a crossing gate not come down when a train is approaching?
How any times has your GPS device gone into “recalculating” even when you do nothing to venture off its determined course?
Technology does not make things perfect. It just makes mundane things easier to deal with but in the end, it always relies on a human to get it there.
Sleeping?
I guess I ‘m not that cynical.
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