A Chat With the Union Pacific Police

A Union Pacific police officer talks to me about being parked too close to the tracks. He was very cool and respectful in dealing with me and I just left after talking with him. Next time I'll park a little further from the tracks.

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• Colton
• California
• Train
• Railroad
• UP
• Union
• Pacific
• Security
• Police

[guitar446]

hey that sucks KCS could careless if i could but i only 15' alway from the nears rail any way havent have the railroad call the cops on me at all.

[AllenRockwell]

@guitar446 Dude, your comment made my brain hurt. How about a little punctuation and a spell checker! :)

But I think I know what you are saying.  Thanks for the comment.

[newtonx4]

Don't come to Vegas it's 100 feet up here!

[AllenRockwell]

@newtonx4

Hmm, I worked in Vegas for a year and never had a problem.

[JakBal3112]

at least a train didnt come past when he was talking to you. That would of sucked.

[AllenRockwell]

Why is that?

[karldotcom]

@devildoc225 LOL....How long have you spelled Amtrak that way?

[clevelandtrainfan]

what is interesting is that in berea, ohio, when you park on depot street you are literally 6 feet from the csx main line. those trains cruise past at like 45 or 50 mph

[grayfox455]

I guess all the train crews are nervous these days about sabotage. But doesn't it sound more logical that a rail fan should be enlisted to lookout for suspicious activity than to be the focus of an investigation into that. A terrorist who had planted an explosive under the track wouldn't be hanging around next to the tracks would they? They wouldn't be anywhere near there would they? How did they act in Iraq? Just seems like over reacting to me. Am I wrong?

[newtoliver]

@niselat Railroad police are fully authorized officers in all U.S. jurisdictions. Like someone else said, they have full police powers on and off railroad property just like any other police officer. They are unique in this way - employed by private companies, but are police. Back in the '90s the History Channel did a whole series on American railroads and one of those episodes dealt with the background of railroad police and how this all came to be.

[niselat]

@devildoc225 nice googling.you just said the same thing i did. if you have not been involved in a crime the cops cannot detain you thus you do not have to produce ID

[devildoc225]

@niselat Any sworn law enforcement officer has the legal authority, if they believe a crime has been, or is about to be committed, to demand ID. It's that simple. Cut the railfan nonsense, and stop talking about what you obviously know NOTHING about. And it has nothing to do with my state.

[niselat]

@devildoc225 no i am 100% correct. provide a cite that proves me wrong or stop misleading people just because you want to look cool on the internet

[devildoc225]

@niselat Again, you are wrong. Stop giving out false information, because somebody reading your BS will wind up getting collared for nonsense thanks to you.

[niselat]

@devildoc225 you DO NOT have to produce ID when asked by any cop. only if they are detaining you. and no one cares about how they do things in NY. you get arrested for eating high fat food in that Nazi state

[devildoc225]

@niselat Wrong. Railroad Police in almost all states have full Police Officer status. You most certainly have to produce ID when asked. Try playing that here in NY, and you WILL be sitting in a jail cell very quikly. All of the agencies, AMTRACK, MTA...etc have full powers of arrest, and go through the full municpal police traning council academy that all police go through. In addition, MTA Police also have jurisdiction on Connecticut. MTA Police is a result of merging all the RR Police