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[quote user="RRKen"] [quote]New regulations were to go into effect December 26, 2008, but the railroads successfully petitioned for a delay until April 1, 2009. The regs can be found at 49 CFR 1580. Suffice to say, every passenger and freight railroad now must have a Rail Security Coordinator who is available 24/7 to coordinate intelligence and security with the Transportation Security Administration and law enforcement agencies. And every railroad now is required to "immediately report potential threats and significant security concerns to the Department of Homeland Security at 703-563-3240 or 1-877-456-8722." Potential threats or significant security concerns are defined to include: --interference with train crews; --bomb threats; --suspicious items that could disrupt railroad operations; --suspicious activity around rail cars or rail facilities; --discovery of a firearm or other deadly weapon on a train, station, terminal, facility, storage yard, or other location used in the operation of the railroad; --indications of tampering with rail cars; --surveillance of a train, facility, storage yard, or other location used in the operation of the railroad; --threatening correspondence received by the railroad.[/quote] [/quote] That is interesting because it seems to directly intersect with the railroad photography hobby.  The prohibition item of surveillance would certainly cover all railroad photography.  It would also pertain to observation alone without a camera.  And it would apply to people conducting surveillance who are not actually on railroad property.   <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p> Now granted, it does not say that surveillance is illegal.  However, the occurrence of surveillance does require the railroad company to report the incident to the Department of Homeland Security.  So what happens after that phone call?   Surely the police must be called in order to investigate the surveillance incident and make a report to DHS.  Maybe DHS sends their own officer to directly investigate.  So, if this is the procedure, it means that any person who looks at a train with apparent interest, from any location, will be questioned and investigated for conducting surveillance if that person is seen by an employee of the railroad.
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