March 7, 2025 | BNSF, News, Railroad Security, Top News
Thieves targeting freight trains have again made national headlines after more than $2 million worth of new Nike sneakers were stolen from trains in California and Arizona. A common method for these modern day train robberies involves cutting air hoses to force trains...
February 26, 2025 | BNSF, Headlines, Mexico, Railroad Security, Train Length, UP
(Source: Associated Press, February 24, 2025) In a Jan. 13 robbery, suspects cut an air brake hose on a BNSF freight train traveling through a remote section of Arizona and made off with more than 1,900 pairs of unreleased Nikes worth more than $440,000, according to...
January 9, 2025 | Canada, Headlines, Mexico, Railroad Security
(Source: Trains.com, January 9, 2025) Federal regulators will attempt to close security gaps on the U.S. rail system for exports destined for Mexico and Canada through a new rulemaking by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The proposed rule, posted Wednesday, Jan....
November 7, 2024 | Headlines, Railroad Security
(Source: Trains.com, November 7, 2024) The Transportation Security Administration has proposed a rule that would require cybersecurity risk management and reporting requirements for some freight and passenger railroads, as well as rail transportation. The Notice of...
July 23, 2024 | BNSF, Derailment, Headlines, Railroad Security
(Source: Railfan & Railroad Magazine, July 23, 2024) BNSF Railway Police have accused a 17-year-old railroad enthusiast of purposely derailing a coal train and filming it in Nebraska this spring. The teenager allegedly filmed the derailment as it happened and...
January 30, 2024 | News, Railroad Security
The New York Times Magazine published a lengthy story on January 23 examining modern day train robberies. The story quotes BLET National President Eddie Hall, who has 28 years of seniority as a locomotive engineer for the Union Pacific Railroad out of El Paso, Texas,...
January 24, 2024 | Headlines, Railroad Security
(Source: New York Times Magazine, January 23, 2024) Edward A. Hall, National President of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, has 28 years of seniority as a locomotive engineer for Union Pacific, first in El Paso, Texas, but mostly out of Tucson,...
December 21, 2023 | CN, CSX, Headlines, NS, PSR, Railroad Security, UP
(Source: Pro Publica, December 15, 2023) When questioned by federal officials or faced with an accident, the nation’s powerful freight railroad companies say they are among the safest employers in America and tout their injury records to prove it. But those statistics...
December 11, 2023 | FRA, Headlines, Railroad Security
(Source: Freight Waves, December 11, 2023 A proposed rule to prevent freight rail cars produced by Chinese entities from being used in the U.S. freight rail network is earning praise from the heads of the Rail Security Alliance (RSA) and the Railway Supply Institute...
October 26, 2023 | Headlines, Railroad Security
(Source: Progressive Railroading, October 24, 2023) The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) yesterday announced updates to three security directives regulating passenger and freight railroads to protect critical rail operations and facilities. Full story:...
