The engineer at the helm of a deadly train derailment in Washington state two years ago is claiming he’s a “victim” of the disaster — and has filed suit against Amtrak for not training him on how to operate the locomotive ahead of the crash.

Steven Brown, an Amtrak employee since 2004, was driving the inaugural run of the railroad’s Cascade line through the $181 million Point Defiance “high speed rail” bypass at twice the legal speed limit when his train struck a curve and flew off an overpass onto Interstate 5.

Brown “suffered hearing impairment, hearing loss, pain, anxiety, general and special damage, diminishment [sic] of earning capacity [and] loss of enjoyment of life,” according to his suit against Amtrak, filed Jan. 21 in Pierce County Superior Court.

He claims Amtrak failed to teach him how to operate the train’s controls and instrumentation — and how to navigate the Point Defiance bypass itself, according to the court documents.

The lawsuit also blames Amtrak for failing to install “positive train control” on the locomotive, which would have monitored and capped the train’s speed.

“He’s as much of a victim as anybody else,” Fred Bremseth, Brown’s attorney, told the Tacoma News Tribune last week. “He’s a great engineer, a great human being.”

The allegations echo findings issued by the National Transportation Safety Board last June.

According to the NTSB’s report, Brown had never been instructed on how to respond to alarms indicating the train was running “over-speed.”

“The engineer’s failure was the final link in a very long chain of mismanagement events,” the NTSB report said. “The root cause was extremely lax safety oversight, unclear responsibility, and poor training.”

An Amtrak spokesman declined to comment.