Report: Train engineer allowed teens to ride along (The Fresno Bee)Cell phone text messages reveal an engineer whose commuter train collided head-on with a freight last year killing 25 people sometimes allowed teens to ride along with him, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday. Read comments
Engineer in fatal Metrolink crash let teens ride in cab, sources say (Los Angeles Times)Text messages show Robert M. Sanchez took rail fans for ride-alongs in violation of safety regulations. Federal investigators have cellphone text messages indicating that the engineer blamed for last fall's Metrolink rail disaster in Chatsworth sometimes allowed teenagers to ride with him in the cabs of locomotives while carrying passengers, The Times has learned
Investigation Metrolink Engineer Allowed Teens to RideAlong (KTLA-TV Los Angeles)CHATSWORTH -- A federal investigation into cell phone text messages shows that the engineer who's been blamed for the Metrolink disaster sometimes allowed teens to ride with him in the cab of the trains. On September 12, a commuter train and a freight train collided head-on in Chatsworth, killing 25 people on board the Metrolink train, including engineer Robert Sanchez. Dozens of other people ...
McAnally named district engineer (Odessa American)A veteran Odessa highway department employee completed a 26-year climb from teenage summer-hire to district engineer last week, according to an announcement Thursday by Amadeo Saenz, Texas Department of Transportation executive director.