Rail COP
This Fall as well as during the Thanksgiving holiday the Washoe and Storey County Nevada Rail Auxiliary Teams supported Amtrak’s RAILSAFE by monitoring a challenging highway-grade crossing and patrolling the Reno Amtrak station. Teams like this provide...
Rail COP
Two weeks ago the Washoe County Sheriff’s Department Citizen Corps graduated more than 40 volunteers who are trained on reportable situations on the railroad tracks to provide rail awareness reports to local law enforcement (who normally respond to rail trespass...
Rail COP
Well, it is only a matter of time before it gets to the United States. We had a terrorist that stabbed numerous people on a train in Europe. I keep thinking about the AMTK long distance trains and the lack of security at those remote stations. With copycat Homegrown...
Rail COP
Well, I hate to say I told you so, but I knew this was going to happen and it did. 500 pounds of “fireworks grade” explosives stolen from a freight train. What is really weird is that this happened two days ago and I just found out about it today, 4.22.16....
Rail COP
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...