'This Is It, I'm Going Over': Engineer Recalls Moments Before Amtrak Derailment: Patch PM

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‘This Is It, I’m Going Over’: Engineer Recalls Moments Before Amtrak Derailment

The engineer operating the Amtrak train that derailed in Philadelphia in May, killing eight people, offered investigators ”dream-like” details of the night of the crash in two interviews released Monday by the NTSB.

But more than 75 pages of interview transcripts with Amtrak engineer Brandon Bostian, who was operating the Washington, D.C.-to-New York route on the evening of May 12, 2015, offer no concrete answers behind the cause of the derailment. >>>Read more on Patch

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