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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...
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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...
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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...
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I was surfing on the web about the recent CSX oil tank train derailment in West Virginia. I saw the normal news media, Fox, ABC, etc., but what I saw next shocked me. Al Jazeera America, the Arabic language news media which is partly funded by the ruling family of...
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I was recently published in “Progressive Railroading” and “Rail Professional” magazines about open source intelligence. The reason I am writing this is the day before the attacks in Paris I contacted the editor of Rail Professional (a U.K....