March 10, 2020 | Amtrak, Headlines, Railroad Security
(Source: Editorial by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 10, 2020) PITTSBURGH, Pa. — With crime on trains increasing, Amtrak should beef up its police force. Instead, open positions remain unfilled and the number of police positions has dropped over the past year....
March 3, 2020 | Headlines, Railroad Security, Technology
(Source: Bleeping Computer, February 28, 2020) WASHINGTON, D.C. — RailWorks Corporation, one of North America’s leading railroad track and transit system providers, disclosed a ransomware attack that led to the exposure of personally identifiable information of...
January 13, 2020 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Railroad Security
(Source: New York Daily News, January 12, 2020) NEW YORK — Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Sunday called for the TSA to quickly roll out technology designed to thwart terrorist attacks at transit hubs — and accused the feds of keeping the potentially life-saving...
January 8, 2020 | Headlines, KCS, Railroad Security
(Source: Freight Waves, January 8, 2020) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — During the third quarter of 2019, the number of train robberies in Mexico rose 13% compared with the previous quarter, according to data compiled by Mexico’s Railway Transport Regulatory Agency (ARTF)....
December 19, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Railroad Security
(Source: Washington Post, December 17, 2019) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The images on the screen looked like the infrared bodies you see on ghost hunting shows, but the green figures that flashed on the screen at the Pentagon City Metro station Tuesday in Arlington, Virginia,...
December 17, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Railroad Security
(Source: Mass Transit Magazine, December 17, 2019) NEW YORK — American railroads currently face the greatest threat to their critical safety systems in history: cyberattacks. Rail critical infrastructure in America has been subject to a spate of cyberattacks, with...
December 16, 2019 | Commuter Rail, Headlines, Railroad Security
(Source: News 12 Long Island, December 15, 2019) LONG ISLAND, N.Y. — A group of men dressed up as Santa Claus say they had to subdue a knife-wielding man on the Long Island Rail Road. An LIRR rider posted video on Twitter Saturday night of a fight between people...
December 16, 2019 | BNSF, Headlines, Railroad Security
(Source: NCW Life, December 13, 2019) WENATCHEE — A jury found the Chumstick Valley man who confronted a group of railroad workers with an assault rifle not guilty of all eight felony counts as his trial closed Friday Full story: www.ncwlife.com
December 13, 2019 | BNSF, Headlines, Railroad Security
(Source: NCW Life, December 12, 2019) WENATCHEE — James Carl Brown must now wait for a jury to decide whether he was justified in firing gunshots in a confrontation with railroad workers near his home last year. The late-night October 2018 confrontation left the...
December 12, 2019 | BNSF, Headlines, Railroad Security
(Source: NCW Life, December 11, 2019) WENATCHEE — Trial opened Tuesday for a Chumstick Valley man accused of firing several gunshots to intimidate a crew of railroad workers. James Carl Brown, 45, allegedly fired three to five rounds from an M4 assault rifle in...
