WATCH: Towson Exec Missing from Derailed Train, Son Asks for Help

By JAMES BOYLE (Patch Staff)

A 13-year-old boy has gone to the media asking for help locating his father, a Towson executive who was a passenger on the Amtrak train that derailed Tuesday night in Philadelphia.

Marc Gildersleeve is asking for any information on the whereabouts of his father, Bob Gildersleeve.

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He released a video (see it at the bottom of the article), with a description of his father, who is 6’5” tall, weighs 220 pounds and was wearing black shorts and a royal blue Under Armour shirt when he was last seen.

“Please help me find my dad,” Marc Gildersleeve said.

Bob Gildersleeve, 45, has served as a vice president of sales for Towson-based Ecolab and lives in the Baltimore area, according to his LinkedIn profile.

He had dropped off his 13-year-old son at lacrosse practice before boarding the train, bound for New York on business, CBS reported, and has not been heard from since the derailment.

The Wall Street Journal says that Gildersleeve’s family is in Philadelphia awaiting news on his condition.

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Photo: LinkedIn.com.