It would appear his intention was to inform the people and the government so that precautions could be taken to prevent such an incident from occurring.
What the BRAIN DEAD STUPID JACK@SS didn't realize is that it was IMPOSSIBLE to solve this problem, and all he accomplished was to notify terrorists of a ripe easy target.
I said at the time of the broadcast "That fool needs to be fired, because he doesn't understand that he has just handed terrorists an effective weapon."
Again, any countermeasures would be so costly or ineffective as to be impossible, so in effect all Brian Ross had done is to endanger the public by spreading knowledge of a security weakness.
I recall this ABC News story. I remember that the thing that concerned me was how easy it would be to access all the various chemical plants around the country. If this had been a train carrying tankers of chorine gas, it could have been a lot worse.
40 years ago that nearly happened in Denver.
They had a run-away with a tanker full of chemicals which would have killed at least 10k.
Friend at Shell Chemical told me about it.
I have ceased to give the MSM any benefit of the doubt. Until solidly proven
otherwise I will assume that Brian Ross and ABC intended to assist terrorists.
You can still today go to McMaster-Carr supply and buy a train de-railer that bolts on to the track in about 30 seconds that will lift and throw the lead car off the rail.
I can't believe that they would sell that these days, not that you couldn't build one with a bridgeport and a welder, but still...
Around the time of the Boston jihadi bombing some Canadian Mozlem got arrested for planning to derail trains. Maybe he had others planning and they weren’t caught?