I have a question about trains.?

Question

Is train security as tight as plane security???????

Answer 1

oh yeah, only the train crew can open the locked doors.

unless you have the key, which is the same one that's been in use for 70 years or so, I have a few myself.

If I told you what common items most people carry that can be used to open half those locks, you would die laughing.

Answer 2

It wasn't very tight at the Amtrak station in Birmingham, Alabama in 1996. Then again, things could have changed after Sept. 11, 2001.

Answer 3

Depends. Not on local trains. They do random security checks on most high speed trains though. The Eurostar is the only train that employs airport-style x-ray machines.

Bear in mind that security on trains does not *need* to be as tight as on planes. If you blow up a suitcase bomb on a widebody airliner, the whole plane crashes and all 300 passengers die.

If you blow up a suitcase bomb on a train, the skin of the carriage will be wrecked but the train will stay in its tracks. High speed trains are built as sturdy as tanks. At most, you are going to kill about 20 people in the carriage where the bomb goes off but the rest of the passengers are likely to survive unscathed.

It's a different story for packed commuter trains, of course, as the Madrid bombings have shown.

Answer 4

NO WAY !!!

Answer 5

Absolutely not, not even close.

There are security measures on mass transit systems, but even then, not to the extent as airline security.

Talking freight trains, security is nearly non-existent, as Hoghead mentioned.  Most rail yards don't even have a fence, and many in urban areas aren't in the nicest areas to begin with.  Trespassers are so common in a lot of areas, nobody even bothers to report them anymore.

Numerous times I've watched people climb through my train (between cars) to get from one side of the tracks to the other.  This happens out on the main line, but also near and inside rail yards.  On several of these occasions, small children crossed right behind the adults.

Rail security is a totally different ballgame from airline security.  With the airlines, if you keep a tight lid on the airports and the planes themselves, that's about it.  But the railways of North America touch almost every city or town, are spread through every corner, through some of the most isolated and some of the most dense areas, and take up a lot of physical space in the process.

Again, as Hoghead mentioned, make sure you contact your elected representatives if this potentially scary scenario has you concerned (and it should).

Answer 6

no

Answer 7

Everywhere you look there is another Madrid waiting to happen.

Israel continues to go on about its business with terrorists underfoot and so should we.  Terrorists can be eliminated or

we can let them rule us.  What's your preference?

Answer 8

Absolutely not!!!!

Answer 9

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Answer 10

Yes only the driver and conductor can open the doors,

The doors are linked to the braking system.

The only exception being the type of trains where you have a handle opening

Answer 11

no....

Answer 12

If I told you how easy it would be to create a major catastrophe it would be used against us.

Security on our nation's railroads is non existent.  I am not talking about mass transit rail systems that do have some safe guards in place.  Only time will tell if they are effective.  Even there in a worst case scenario you would be speaking of several hundred dead.

You can blow an entire town off the map with a freight train as weapon.

Like I say, you'll just have to trust me on this one, then contact your representatives in DC.  By the way, ONE person is likely not to accomplish much.  Encourage your friends to do the same and keep this message moving along.  The nation's railroaders and representative unions screaming at the top of their lungs has made no impression.