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Just to note, while I'm sure the relationship may still be strained - it's a different situation to any other one I can think of. -------- The railroads are a

Just to note, while I'm sure the relationship may still be strained - it's a different situation to any other one I can think of. -------- The railroads are a special case as they are legally authorized to have their own police forces, and do. While they're privately employed, they have the same powers as a typical cop (or more). They can get warrants, run investigations, and can make arrests anywhere in CA if the case involves the railroad. They are not semi-powerless private security. They do not need "a real cop" to make an arrest or do the police work. (although they certainly do typically work with local authorities).

ethbr0 5y ago
Neat! And makes sense, given railroad property is by nature multi-jurisdictional. Among other rail oddities, when looking into a rail industry job, it turns out rail employees have the only federally -administered and -funded private pension system, created by the Railroad Retirement Act (1935, same year as social security). In modern specifics, it's basically Social Security by another name. https://www.rrb.gov/Resources/LegalInformation/PartitionofRRA/The_RRA https://www.rrb.gov/Resources/LegalInformation/PartitionofRR... It's easy to forget how central rail was to this country for a century+ (and still today, if more behind the scenes).