January 11, 2018 | CN, Headlines, Railroad Security
(Source: www.mlive.com, January 10, 2018) GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A former railroad worker caught cutting safety signal wires will be sentenced Wednesday, Jan. 10, in federal court. Jeffrey Alan Taylor, who maintained railroad signal wires for about 15 years, earlier...
January 5, 2018 | Amtrak, Headlines, Railroad Security
(Source: Lincoln Journal Star, January 4, 2018) LINCOLN, Neb. — The FBI says an armed 26-year-old Missouri man who breached a secured area to stop an Amtrak train in southwest Nebraska in October has links to a white supremacist group and expressed an interest in...
January 24, 2017 | Headlines, Oil Train, Railroad Security
(Source: Energy Wire, January 24, 2017) NEW YORK — Terrorists and “environmental extremists” fed rail executives’ fears over trains carrying millions of gallons of flammable crude oil, according to confidential filings in 2014. The documents,...
January 11, 2017 | Headlines, Railroad Security, UP
(Source: Nogales International, January 9, 2017) NOGALES — The lead segment of a freight train crashed through the gates at the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry on Monday morning, reportedly after Mexican railroad workers tried to move it following a contentious protest...
December 19, 2016 | Headlines, Railroad Security
(Source: USA Today, December 16, 2016) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Transportation Security Administration proposed Friday to require security training for railroad and bus workers, to protect against terrorism like the commuter-train bombings in Spain that killed nearly...
December 12, 2016 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Railroad Security
(Source: AM New York, December 11, 2016) NEW YORK — Sen. Charles Schumer wants all rail and mass transit employees in sensitive positions to be cross-checked with the national terror watch list, much like he said airline employees are, as the city gears up for holiday...
December 8, 2016 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Railroad Security
(Source: www.nj.com, December 7, 2016) NEWARK, N.J. — A passive security device that was used to screen crowds for explosives during Super Bowl 48 is being tested on NJ Transit’s commuter rail system under a program run by the federal Transportation Security...
November 29, 2016 | Headlines, Railroad Security, Technology
(Source: Washington Post, November 28, 2016) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) was hit with malware that held its computer systems hostage on Friday and caused problems over the weekend as attackers reportedly sought a ransom...
September 27, 2016 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Railroad Security
(Source: Washington Post, September 24, 2016) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Lee Parker needed a backpack for a job interview the next day. He had been homeless for several years and carried his few possessions in a plastic bag. So when he and a friend came across a new backpack...
September 26, 2016 | Amtrak, Headlines, Railroad Security
(Source: Bloomberg, September 26, 2016) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Transportation Security Administration is one of those federal agencies that tends to inspire intense reactions among the traveling public. It’s a bureaucracy that interacts with millions of airline...
