security

In research for my history website I ran into the attached declassified document. It illustrates the East Germans' interest in knowing everything about railroaders who crossed the intra-Germany boundaries. The redactions are items that would identify persons. Abbreviations: SED = Socialist...

Sending this in to Amtrak Corporate Today: Clearly "under the influence" person hops on Acela out of Union Station DC.; quiet car perpendicular to me. Has no ticket. Thankfully, Conductor was timely in checking for valid tickets as soon as we left the station. Argues he has a ticket (says...

Unfortunately, the end of transcontinental Greyhound Lines of Canada service has pushed some problem passengers onto the infrequent and late VIA Rail "Canadian." While Greyhound sometimes has problem passengers, they are likelier to be close to scheduled times and their driver may be able to...

Recently, there were two posts in this forum about incidents of theft on Amtrak, both posts of which raised a little bit of skepticism, due to lack of details and lack of coherence. But security on Amtrak is an issue. I worry about safety (getting hurt by things) more than security (getting...

The full report at... https://stockdailydish.com/tsa-administrator-no-need-for-airport-like-security-for-rail-travel/