March 27, 2003 | Headlines, National Emergency
(The St. Louis Post-Dispatch posted the following article by Bill Bryan on its website on March 26.) ST. LOUIS, Mo. — St. Louis police have assigned officers to watch two Mississippi River bridges 24 hours a day after a captured al-Qaida leader told...
March 27, 2003 | Headlines, National Emergency
(The following article by Shawn Menzies appeared in Today’s Sunbeam on March 27.) CAMDEN, N.J. — Although the New York-based Port Authority of New York and New Jersey plans to issue gas masks for train and track employees, a similar agency in the Delaware Valley...
March 21, 2003 | Headlines, National Emergency
(The Cincinnati Enquirer posted the following article by James Pilcher and Jane Prendergast on its website on March 20.) CINCINNATI, Ohio — Cincinnati police have begun round-the-clock patrols on two key Ohio River bridges that are links in major national...
March 21, 2003 | Headlines, National Emergency, UP
(Nebraska television station KETV posted the following Association Press article on its website on March 20.) OMAHA — Omaha’s Union Pacific, the nation’s largest railroad, increased monitoring and surveillance of certain trains as the United States...
March 21, 2003 | Headlines, National Emergency
(The following Associated Press article was posted on the New York Times online edition on March 20.) NEW YORK — With traffic-stalling vehicle checks on interstates, armed patrols inside subway tunnels and briefcase inspections at heartland statehouses,...
February 14, 2003 | Headlines, National Emergency
(The following article by Jonathan Lucas and Hoa Nguyen was published in the Stamford Advocate.) STAMFORD — Police conducted spot checks of commuter trains heading to New York City last night in response to the government’s heightened terror alert....
February 14, 2003 | Headlines, National Emergency, UP
(The Omaha World-Herald posted the following article by Grace Shim on its website on February 13.) OMAHA, Neb. — Union Pacific Railroad said Wednesday that it is the first U.S. railroad to participate in the U.S. Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism....
November 1, 2002 | Headlines, National Emergency
TULLAHOMA, Tenn. — The nation’s rail travelers received a warning recently from the FBI — al-Qaeda may be planning a terror attack on passenger trains, using operatives who are Western in appearance, according to an editorial in the Tullahoma News....
November 1, 2002 | Headlines, National Emergency
OMAHA — The FBI warned last week that freight and passenger trains should be on heightened alert against terrorism. The railroads’ response has been to not talk publicly about security measures, the Omaha World-Herald reported. In fact, some railroad...
October 30, 2002 | Headlines, National Emergency, UP
NORTH PLATTE — The nation’s largest railroad is taking greater steps to guard against terrorism, the Associated Press reported. Among other things, Union Pacific is installing more security cameras, working with customers to track cars and cargo and...
