Listening to the mediots reporting on this is painful. They don't have a clue about what they're talking about.
As usual they're referring to the engineer as "the driver", or worse, "the conductor".
In spite of a guest's (NTSB expert) opinion that it looks like a 10 to 15 MPH impact, the hosts kept repeating "the train appears to have been going full speed" or "at a high rate of speed".
One of the dim-bulb anchorettes said "This is a push-pull train which was being pushed from the rear. That means the conductor (sic) was driving from the last car". (Good thing she's pretty because she's dumber than a box of hammers.)
Then another anchor said "We'll be hearing from Governors Christie and Cuomo because this PATH train is operated by both the States of New Jersey and New York." Of course this was a New Jersey Transit train which has nothing at all to do with New York State or Andrew Cuomo, but he sounded so confident while talking out of his behind.
Does anyone wonder why I don't believe anything the media reports about, including the weather?
I'm off today, but tomorrow I will be grilled by my coworkers about what I think happened because I'm "the train expert". I'll have to spend most of the time debunking the garbage they've been fed by the media.
My first order of business is going to be to clarify that "train DRIVERS" all live and work in the UK and that "ENGINEERS" not "CONDUCTORS" "RUN" trains in the US.
