OrlandoMike
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Please keep Auston's family and friends in your thoughts and prayers. He will be laid to rest tomorrow. As you can tell by this video, he loved his job.
When Diane Cimino of Briton, Conn., heard about a Walt Disney World monorail pilot dying in a Sunday morning accident at the Orlando theme park, she hoped the pilot wasn't Austin Wuennenberg.
It was.
She was devastated. She and members of her family had just returned home from Disney, and one of their memories from Orlando was a monorail ride given to them by Wuennenberg.
Here is an e-mail Cimino sent to the Orlando Sentinel:
All day yesterday my family prayed that the monorail pilot that we had just had the pleasure of meeting and driving around with in the pilot's compartment at Disney World was not "our Austin" who was killed in the accident.
We just returned home on Saturday, and our monorail ride with Austin was the most memorable moment of our week-long stay for our 4-year-old grandson Christyan.
Austin had welcomed us into the pilot's compartment on Tuesday evening. We took a picture of him when he put Christyan into the driver's seat, and also we shot a 10 minute video as he drove us (my husband, Christyan and myself) from the Magic Kingdom and back again.
He was delightful and shared wonderful information with Christyan, who asked him many questions. When asked what the monorail runs on, he answered "Magic", and then added "electricity," as Christyan pressed him for more info.
Christyan is an avid train lover, so the monorail ride was the most important ride for him. He saved his money and was given some Disney dollars and a gift card from friends and bought a toy monorail the first night we arrived.
He [Austin] shared his love for his job, and his college plans with us. He is so sweet on the video interacting with Christyan, naming all the colors of the 12 monorails and answering questions.
Every time we spotted a monorail train after that evening, Christyan would say, "I bet that's our Austin!"
We have not told Christyan what has happened as his heart would break, as ours has. When my husband read it was Austin, he could barely speak from emotion. That's how special our 20 minutes was with that special young man, who made our grandson's dream come true that day.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news...ail-austin-wuennenberg-070709,0,2265988.story
When Diane Cimino of Briton, Conn., heard about a Walt Disney World monorail pilot dying in a Sunday morning accident at the Orlando theme park, she hoped the pilot wasn't Austin Wuennenberg.
It was.
She was devastated. She and members of her family had just returned home from Disney, and one of their memories from Orlando was a monorail ride given to them by Wuennenberg.
Here is an e-mail Cimino sent to the Orlando Sentinel:
All day yesterday my family prayed that the monorail pilot that we had just had the pleasure of meeting and driving around with in the pilot's compartment at Disney World was not "our Austin" who was killed in the accident.
We just returned home on Saturday, and our monorail ride with Austin was the most memorable moment of our week-long stay for our 4-year-old grandson Christyan.
Austin had welcomed us into the pilot's compartment on Tuesday evening. We took a picture of him when he put Christyan into the driver's seat, and also we shot a 10 minute video as he drove us (my husband, Christyan and myself) from the Magic Kingdom and back again.
He was delightful and shared wonderful information with Christyan, who asked him many questions. When asked what the monorail runs on, he answered "Magic", and then added "electricity," as Christyan pressed him for more info.
Christyan is an avid train lover, so the monorail ride was the most important ride for him. He saved his money and was given some Disney dollars and a gift card from friends and bought a toy monorail the first night we arrived.
He [Austin] shared his love for his job, and his college plans with us. He is so sweet on the video interacting with Christyan, naming all the colors of the 12 monorails and answering questions.
Every time we spotted a monorail train after that evening, Christyan would say, "I bet that's our Austin!"
We have not told Christyan what has happened as his heart would break, as ours has. When my husband read it was Austin, he could barely speak from emotion. That's how special our 20 minutes was with that special young man, who made our grandson's dream come true that day.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news...ail-austin-wuennenberg-070709,0,2265988.story
We lost a wonderful CM in Austin.
