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Re:American trains need more than railfan nostalgia by macintux on Saturday November 06, 2021 @04:05PM (#29133390)
About 8 years ago I was caught off guard by TSA running a checkpoint at the Amtrak station in Chicago. I don’t know whether that was a common occurrence at the time, and I haven’t ridden in years, but certainly in the moment I was not enthused by the potential encroachment.
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Re:American trains need more than railfan nostalgia by jdavis703 on Saturday November 06, 2021 @08:16PM (#29135156)
They deploy VIPR teams to do this. I’ve seen it twice (once as passive screening, the other was active screening) in the last two decades. As a regular transit and Amtrak user, I’d say it’s fairly rare.
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Re:American trains need more than railfan nostalgia by macintux on Saturday November 06, 2021 @09:20PM (#29135538)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_Intermodal_Prevention_... for anyone else unfamiliar with that acronym.
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