Beware - Next Train may be a string operation

[GoneSouth]

First time I have heard of this type of string operation.  Very interesting!!!

http://www.khou.com/news/neighborhood-news/Houston-Troopers-set-up-sting-operation-to-crack-down-on-railroad-crossing-violators--137693438.html

 

 

[cacole]

This has recently been done and reported on previously in other states.  I don't recall which states they were, but it was posted on these forums when it happened beginning last summer.

[Anonymous]

Can somebody please translate this phrase from the article for me?

 

 

“Troopers set up a mock crossing of a Union Pacific railcar…”

[nordique72]

I recall when the UP did this they ran a pair of light units back and forth along a predetermined route for a certain period of time. Police units were stationed along the route to pull over gate runners after the policemen in the cab radioed the information to them. I think what the report should have said was "Troopers rode on a Union Pacific train specifically run to predetermined locations to catch would be gate-runners along the route." 

[Anonymous]

From the description, I was thinking that the police had made a boxcar out of cardboard, and carried it across the road to see what drivers would do when they saw it. 

[tree68]

Ahhhh - a sting.  I've heard of this before as well.

At the Railfest in Owosso, a trooper rode the locomotive (lucky cuss!) and was in touch with a chase car.  Given the diagonal route of the tracks and the grid layout of roads in that area, the chase car had it's hands full keeping up...

[edblysard]

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/13_undercover&id=8510406

Along State Highway 290, about 2 miles from my home.

Several subdivisions along the tracks, and the people out there seem to think they have the right of way.

[Anonymous]

Ed,

That link is about corruption at Precint 1. 

[Murphy Siding]

Bucyrus

Ed,

That link is about corruption at Precint 1. 

  That, my friend, is one of the most clever sting operations ever undertaken.  It may look like a link about corruption, but it's actually an undercover sting operation to catch law breakers at railroad crossings.  Crazy yes.......like a fox!












(  (Yes-  I've finally lost it!)

[Anonymous]

Yes that distinguishes a mere sting operation from a string operation. 

[Murphy Siding]

    Maybe Ed was just stringing you along.

[zugmann]

Murphy Siding

    Maybe Ed was just stringing you along.

 

Ed's string theory?

[tree68]

Let's try this one:

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=8510760

[edblysard]

Thanks, Larry...

I was starting to get strung out.

Besides, Abercia needs all the bad press and all the jail time the Feds can give him...he gave a real bad name to a department full of real good guys, disgraced the badge.

[samfp1943]

I sure am glad THAT is settled! 

  I was not sure but was beginning to believe that the aliens had taken Ed away, and were going to string him up!