Denzel Washington plays the grizzled veteran train driver, Chris Pine is his hothead rookie assistant.
But Glen Burnett, 52, another veteran train operator, worried about overexcited passengers inciting panic.
Rankin, 35, a US navy veteran trained in martial arts, was once disciplined for posting violent remarks and Nazi images online.
UNSTOPPABLE Denzel Washington, as a veteran train engineer, and Chris Pine, as an enterprising young conductor, do their darnedest to stop a runaway engine nicknamed the Beast as it plows toward a city with a cargo of toxic waste.
Among the anxious is Cesar Vergara, a Ridgefield, Conn., resident and a veteran train designer who created the interior of Metro-North's new commuter cars, known as M-8s.
Lt. J. Paul Vance, a public information officer for the Connecticut State Police, said Trooper Taylor was a veteran trained for such situations, but he was not specifically directed to speak to Mr. Thornton as a negotiator.
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain — A veteran train driver with a zest for speed was arrested in his hospital room in northwest Spain where investigators are trying to determine whether reckless behavior caused a train wreck that left dozens of passengers dead, the authorities said Friday.
In the first, he is a sun-bleached skeleton in the cockpit of a fighter that has crashed into an uninhabited New Guinea hillside; in the second, he is a veteran train commuter clutching his briefcase along with the lifeline the fates have granted him.
The bodies were raised to the surface by firefighters using a hoist and ropes and harnesses that were carried into the well by Firefighter Robert Lagnese, 33, of Rescue Squad 270, a six-year fire veteran trained to work in confined spaces.
My friend Cricket, a veteran train-hopper, gave us a little hand-drawn map to help us navigate our way once we got into the Linwood yard in western North Carolina.
