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 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...

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...