Washoe Sheriff’s Rail Auxiliary Helps the Homeless

This Christmas and New Year holiday, the Washoe County Sheriff’s Rail Auxiliary teamed up with the Reno Ambassadors to help the homeless who were hanging around the AMTRAK station in Reno, Nevada. The “RAT Pack” were able to locate homeless...

Rail Auxiliary Team supports Amtrak’s RAILSAFE

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...

Al Qaeda Rail Threat

In August 2017, Al Qaeda (AQ) put out their “Inspire” magazine. The magazine specifically focused on attacking the railroad infrastructure. There were a couple of news articles and broadcasts about this and that was it. What I found to be absolutely...

Rail Suicide Prevention

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...

Stabbing on Train

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...