Brandon Bostian was a Passenger Engineer for Amtrak known for being one of the personnel responsible for the 2015 Philadelphia train derailment.

As of May 12, 2017, the top prosecutor in the state of Pennsylvania has charged Brandon with causing a catastrophe, involuntary manslaughter and other crimes in the derailment that came after he accelerated to 106 mph on a 50 mph curve.

Brandon was born in the state of Tennessee and was raised in the city of Memphis.

Brandon attended the Trulaske College of Business where he received his Bachelor of Business in Business administration and Management. ^[1]

While attending college in Columbia, Missouri, he worked at a Target. After graduating, he applied for a job at Amtrak and became the Passenger Conductor for about four years. ^[1] During this time he would eventually moved to New York City. He then became the Passenger Engineer for Amtrak.

On May 12, 2015, an Amtrak Northeast Regional train from Washington, D.C.. bound for New York City derailed and crashed on the Northeast Corridor in the Port Richmond neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Of 238 passengers and 5 crew on board, 8 were killed and over 200 injured, 11 critically. The train was traveling at 102 mph (164 km/h) in a 50 mph (80 km/h) zone of curved tracks when it derailed.

The National Transportation Safety Board ruled that the derailment was caused by the train's engineer becoming distracted by other radio transmissions and losing situational awareness, and said that it would have been prevented by positive train control, a computerized speed-limiting system that was operational elsewhere on the Northeast Corridor, but whose activation at the crash site had been delayed due to regulatory requirements. The track in question was also not equipped with ATC (Automatic Train Control), an older and simpler system which had been operational for years on the

southbound track of the curve at which the derailment occurred, and which also would have limited the train's speed entering the curve.

Shortly after the derailment, Amtrak completed ATC installation on the northbound track.

The engineer of the train was Brandon.

And, after the two year deadline to charge Brandon for the derailment came loomed the present conclusion was that they couldn't prove that he acted in "conscious disregard".

Ultimately, the prosecutors changed their agenda and said they were in talks with Brandon's attorney to have him surrender on the charges.

That judgment call prompted civil lawyers representing the family of a technology Executive killed to seek a private citizen's complaint. They believe Bostian should be held accountable.