This is a real tragedy done by someone who really wanted to die...RIP. I hope they identify you for your family's peace.

They should check with the wireless carriers to see who was making a call from nearby cell towers in the minutes before the accident. That should narrow it down to a few dozen people.

The Police are involved, so how can someone go missing for over two weeks?? Even if this man is from out of state ,or something....There seems to be some identifying informatin on this person. .Isn't there a Data Base for missing people??? Someone must be missing him..??? "RIP"......

Actually, in this instance, going unidentified for this long is unusual. The factors in play when someone goes unidentified are when the body is badly decomposed, an inability to determine the method of death, a lack of eye witnesses immediately prior to death, especially in clearly visable or well-lit conditions. While we don't know why this person killed himself, knowing that he did eliminates other possible leads in figuring out who he was and how he ended up at his destination. Maybe he choose to do this when people who knew him would be out of the country traveling but, given the neighborhood, the fact that he seemed familiar with the train schedule, and the investigation immediately following his death, including eye witness accounts, this is not a typical situation. Especially with all the resources we have now to reach out to the community to share information on so many levels.

While it is certainly a tragedy that this man felt compelled to end his life, there is another tragedy here, that of the train crew who witnessed the incident, most likely feel in some way responsible, yet were utterly powerless to prevent it (it takes a very long distance to bring a train moving at the speed limit to a stop).

I grieve for the victim and his family, but also for the train crew and their families, who were just trying to do their jobs when this hit them out of the blue.