Not sure if this helps but....
1. In the U.K., one of the railways had locomotives lettered "RAILWAY POLICE" in rather large lettering. Sometimes they have railway policemen on them, sometimes they're just hauling trains with a regular crew, but apparently the sight of them is enough to scare some badguys away either way.
2. By state law here in Minnesota, a conductor on a train has the same power to arrest as does a sheriff of the county the train is in. So if someone breaks the law on a train in Minnesota (or within sight of the conductor, even if it's off the train), the conductor can take him into custody until the suspect can be turned over to the authorities.
CSSHEGEWISCH wrote:Rolling stock lettered specifically for use by special agents is quite rare. They didn't even have marked squad cars until recently. The cars, which can be sedans or SUV's, are often lettered in a style similar to municipal police departments.
In these parts (Mudville, USA) CSX has a marked Chevy Yukon, but NS' vehicles aren't marked. Conrail had a marked car that was assigned to operation lifesaver. The Concops called it the circus wagon, but it was equipped quite well. How many police cars do you know of that have air conditioning, AM/FM stereo, reclining seats. I'd say not very many!
As to how they get along with the local departments, it depends. The railroad cops and the Buffalo PD are NOT friendly between each other, unless they are being good cop/bad cop then all bets are off. The indivdual cops make all the difference between a cop and acop!
Down in the San Joaquin valley I've seen white SUV's (usually Tahoes') with the UP shield in the middle with 'Railroad' over the top of the shield and 'Police' under the shield. They have standard police light bars on the units.
We would process some ex-police vehicles from time to time and they are nicely done. Some of the units like the new Dodge Chargers equipped for flight above 150 mph are really really really NOICE.
Me thinks the standard crappy crown victoria that requires training on how to floor it at 0 mph has those awful bucket seats and lots of floor space for all of that heavy radio stuff.
wjstix wrote:Not sure if this helps but....1. In the U.K., one of the railways had locomotives lettered "RAILWAY POLICE" in rather large lettering. Sometimes they have railway policemen on them, sometimes they're just hauling trains with a regular crew, but apparently the sight of them is enough to scare some badguys away either way.
A couple of British Locos have been painted in 'Police' livery, just like police cars, AIUI principally for advertising/promotional purposed - they appeared in a a couple of TV commercials.
I don't believe they were ever used by the British Transport Police - who did however use 'ordinary' trains (unmarked - described as 'Q-trains') on anti-vandal patrols - they would stop and the police jump out when vandals (who would have scattered or acted innocent on sight of a normal police car) were spotted.
BTP have police cars which are painted in normal British police car style.
But for different look at Police and Railways (and a bit of light relief), take a look at http://www.geocities.com/ferroaficionadosar/comic2.htm (from Argentina) - I assume its a city rather than a railway policeman.
Jeremy
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http://www.therailroadpolice.com/history/
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Im the one that accidently took us into the ammo area, I apologize. I have a habit of saying stuff people dont visit in threads.
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