Brandon Bostian, age 32, has been an Amtrak engineer for 4.5 years. That implies Brandon Bostian became an Amtrak engineer when he was 27 years old.
Does anyone have information on the typical age when Amtrak places personnel as engineers?
Also does anyone have information on the average age of the other engineers on these high speed trains that run between DC and NYC?
One site said you have to be a high school grad and 22 years old. Seems young.
I don’t have an answer ... but I do remember a crash on a commuter train here in LA.
Same circumstances ... engineer same age, people killed, going too fast around curve, tried to stop at the last minute.
They got his phone records and he had been texting at the VERY same time as the crash. He did not survive.
He was young ... 20s, 30s.