Tracks of Tears: The Engineer Side

by The Editors on May 4, 2008

Z5201764990E83A7F8825742F006Eb30North County Times writer Sarah Gordon checks in with Amtrak Engineer Mike Guyer, who has been behind the control when his train has hit and killed nine people in the last 13 years, most were suicides like Jeffrey Samora.

Guyer said he tells engineers who are thinking of taking a job on the coastal line what nobody told him: “You’re moving to a place where you’re going to hit a lot of people. Know that the thing is going to take a little piece of you.”

Click the link to read the engaging, well-researched story. It will be worth your time.

[Link: North County Times]

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