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So if a local cop came on board a train you were on and ordered everyone off because of some emergency, but the conductor said to stay aboard, would you refuse to leave?

Part of being a "top-notch professional" is being respectful to the people you work with, and everyone else with whom you interact as part of your duties.

How many hours or days must you sit on a train (or plane) before it becomes legal to flee? Or is one supposed to shut up and die? Sorry for the hyperbole, but, somewhere between a five minute delay and a five week delay, one gets the right to leave without permission. The question is where the...

Interestingly enough, whole trains are made of parts of trains.

Good for him. Seriously. As he reports it, he was arrested for trespassing after refusing to delete his photos. If it were against the law to take pictures, the dude would have been arrested for failure to obey a lawful order. The fact that he was not tells me that the Amtrak cop knew it was...

Sorry; I didn't see that (I didn't see the name or place). What's OTOL?

I've waited on the BAL platform dozens of times and never been called on it.

Different incident. Edit: The thread started before the incident in question, and was about a different person, and the post in question referred to "it", I just assumed it was about a different incident.

Unlikely, as the incident in question occurred on the 21st of Dec. The earlier thread was probably about a different incident.

The tracks are still in the town... the fact that it's private property should have no more bearing on local police than the local McD's franchise owner's property rights have on police accessing his franchise. That is unless the right-of-way is specifically excluded from the town's and state's...

I was thinking this would already be here: A refusal to delete photographs results in an arrest for trespassing. I wonder if he would have been trespassing if he had deleted the photos. It seems the nice Amtrak cop decided to administer his own punishment...

What does communicating status information about the train cost the crew (even if that information is: "Sorry, we know nothing.")? A minute of time. Status info, even if it does diddly squat for arriving on time, makes customers feel much better (it tells the customers that the crew gives a...

How is one news source more reliable than a source that references many independent sources (with links)? That's like saying that a journal paper without references is more reliable than one with many references. If these accounts are hearsay, then what are other quotations in news articles...

You can check out FlyerTalk (I've got the same username there), where I posted about this in the DL and Travel Safety/Security forums. I'm fairly familiar with the SSSStupidity. Before that experience (on DL about 40 days ago), I had been SSSS'd twice: once on a Continental ticket from IAH to...

Nothing. Dear Lord, please make it stay that way. (I should have added a smile icon or something). It's a positive thing for 2V (AKA Amtrak). The last time I got SSSS'd I canceled the ticket and rebooked. When I got SSSS'd on the second attempt (at least it's somewhat consistent) I called and...

Yeah, but at least Amtrak doesn't SSSScrew you over randomly or for buying a last-minute, one-way ticket. At least not yet.

Two month old res for travel in two days. Inserted AGR (not credit) card. Was prompted for PNR after selecting to pick up AGR tickets. It's always been this way for me. In this case it was for tickets for my parents, but the behavior is the same as when I pick up tickets for myself. And yes, my...

No (if I can recall correctly from yesterday evening). You still have to enter the confirmation code. This almost bit me in the @ss earlier this year. I got to WAS about 5 minutes before departure and did not have the PNR. There was no way to get the ticket. Luckily I could boot my PC and get...

The decision to send the train out from the Holland station at 5AM was not "a damned act of nature." It seems to me that it was an act of reckless disregard for passengers on someone's part (please prove me wrong). BTW:TP availability is pretty important when you're involuntarily confined for...

Sounds like a rule designed for freight trains, and not those holding self-loading cargo. Maybe it's just me, but holding 100+ people prisoner overnight is an extraordinary circumstance. Something is really screwed up if it's an ordinary circumstance. In any event it seems that Amtrak, CSX, or...