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  • Engineer warned twice about cell phone use (Deseret Morning News)A supervisor says the engineer in a deadly train crash last September was warned twice about cell phone use while on duty. Despite that warning, the engineer sent and received 43 text messages and made four phone calls the day of the collision, federal records show.


  • 25 apply to become city engineer (This Week Pickerington)A committee of city administrators and industry professionals soon will begin screening the 25 candidates who have applied to become Pickerington's first in-house city engineer.


  • Union Pacific train crash: engineer Robert Sanchez gave rides to trainspotters (Times Online)The engineer suspected of causing one of the worst train crashes in recent US history had on many occasions allowed teenage trainspotters into his cab and had even let them operate the controls, it was revealed this week.


  • Messages detail friendship between engineer, teen (AP via Yahoo! News) Commuter train engineer Robert Sanchez and his young rail fan became fast friends with their constant chatter in text messages about their shared love of trains.


  • Metrolink Train Engineer Warned Twice About Cell Phone Use (FOX40 Sacramento)      WASHINGTON - A supervisor says the engineer in a deadly train crash last September was warned twice about cell phone use while on duty. Despite that warning, the engineer sent and received 43 text messages and made four phone calls the day of the collision, federal records show.       The crash in California last year killed 25 people and injured at least 130 people.       Federal ...


  • Engineer invited teen to operate locomotive (AP via Yahoo! News) The engineer of a commuter train that crashed and killed 25 people in California last year planned to let a teenage railroad fan operate the locomotive on the night of the collision, text messaging days earlier ? "I'm gonna do all the radio talkin' ... ur gonna run the locomotive."