Kind of difficult to hijack significant number of vehicles from train carrying military equipment and make a quick unnoticed getaway. As noted by other poster equipment may not be totally ready to hit the dirt running.
Interesting question though. In the former Soviet Union during the cold war everything of conceiveable military value was guarded. This was before Afghanistan and the Chechan wars. Infrastructure(bridges, railway depots, terminals, dams, power plants, etc.) was guarded, don't know whether the security measures were to protect military assets from external or internal threats.
I had a similar thought after watching a cable channel story on refurbishing Abrams tanks. In this program tanks when completed were shipped out via rail(don't think truckers are quite up to this task in quantity). It would seem a bad guy could research route from generic locations and contractors mentioned to take out the tank train over a high bridge or terrain routing which would favor displacing train and tanks into ravine or river for example. One would hope some measure of security is in place to frustrate such U.S. based attacks by sleeper cells or domestic crazies.
Jon
Safety Valve wrote: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Just think for one moment they stopped one at Jacksonville Arkansas and started the hi-jack process.... there is going to be a response VERY fast dont know what form it will take but most certainly will NOT give these bad boys any chance to unload the stuff. Even if they did unload it, they need more time and support to actually activate the durn vehicle and ready it for combat.Even then the vehicles may not be totally "UP" or properly supplied with everything required for operations on the side of the track.The first people to know what's going on will be the Towermen and they have the control, not the bad guys who took over the train.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just think for one moment they stopped one at Jacksonville Arkansas and started the hi-jack process.... there is going to be a response VERY fast dont know what form it will take but most certainly will NOT give these bad boys any chance to unload the stuff. Even if they did unload it, they need more time and support to actually activate the durn vehicle and ready it for combat.
Even then the vehicles may not be totally "UP" or properly supplied with everything required for operations on the side of the track.
The first people to know what's going on will be the Towermen and they have the control, not the bad guys who took over the train.
Exactly, they can't go forward with the train or they will rearend the train in front of them. They can't stop to unload it or they will get rearended by the following train.
The best they could hope for is to stop it long enough to unload a single specific piece of equipment.
-George
"And the sons of Pullman porters and the sons of engineers ride their father's magic carpet made of steel..."
Iceman_c27 wrote: Was watching this Tepanachi 8 hr DVD and saw those military trains with a whole train full of military hardware including rocket lauching HUMMVEE's, armoured vehicles and even tanks.So my question is this, what security measure do the railroad company provide to stop terrorists from just hijack a trainful of military hardware? It looks pretty dangerous to me as in some sections in the middle of a desert, the train slows down and then people can just jump on board and hijack it. Think about all those military hardware which is enough to outfit a whole army division.
Was watching this Tepanachi 8 hr DVD and saw those military trains with a whole train full of military hardware including rocket lauching HUMMVEE's, armoured vehicles and even tanks.
So my question is this, what security measure do the railroad company provide to stop terrorists from just hijack a trainful of military hardware? It looks pretty dangerous to me as in some sections in the middle of a desert, the train slows down and then people can just jump on board and hijack it. Think about all those military hardware which is enough to outfit a whole army division.
A recent NS train I saw that was carrying M1 Abrams tanks had a DOD caboose at the end. My guess would be armed guards on it. I am sure that NS Police also were on it and directly involved in trackside security.
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...