Trespass and Communications

Today I was walking my dogs by the railroad track and saw a white Dodge pick-up driving on the Maintenance of Way (MOW) road. It was not railroad personnel, at least the truck did not have a railroad logo on it. So, I called it in to the Risk Management Center. The...

Shotgun Shell in Coupler

I was reading a professional rail magazine and the report of finding a shotgun shell in a coupler still has me wondering how secure our railroad infrastructure is. According to the comments associated with the article it was a spent round but that is really...

American’s Disrupt Rail Terrorist

Thanks to courage and quick thinking, three American service members took down a terrorist on a French passenger train. I truly hate to sound like a broken record but once again I am writing that it is not a matter of if but a matter of when it happens here in the...

Rails and Domestic Terrorism

The Sovereign Citizen movement.  Last week I attended a conference of school security. One of the modules was on the Sovereign Citizen movement. For those of you that are not familiar with this group, as of this moment, it consists of approximately 100,000...