You heard the conductor's voice on the 911 call, NOT the engineer. He has most likely been instructed to keep his mouth shut if he wants to stay out of jail. The people who should be put in jail are the politicians and upper management at Sound Transit who wasted $800 Million dollars of taxpayer money improving the "bypass" shortcut to save a handful of peoples a minimal amount of time.
If they had not lied about everything even using $20 Million dollars in advertising... then the money could have been used to improve the tunnel under Pt. Defiance on the mainline which actually would have helped our rail situation in Western Washington. I believe this train was destroyed an engineer's career was destroyed and these people were injured and died all to perpetuate the belief that well over $800 Million dollars was not completely wasted. The "bypass" route takes longer than traveling on the mainline if run at safe speeds.
This says engineer.