"He loves what he does," said neighbor Tom Jones, 72. "He talks about how much he loves it. He wanted to be a train engineer since he was a boy. He told me he was thinking about being an engineer since he was a child. You could tell every time you spoke with him, it is what he loves to be doing, which is why I find this situation additionally tragic. He just loves it so much. I just can't imagine what they are all going through."