Nevada veterans give back through Rail Auxiliary Team
Do you know what to do if you see someone walking on railroad tracks with a train barreling down in the distance? Or if your car gets stuck on the …
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Coffee Tracks - Verdi, NV
On Friday afternoon June 23, 2023 our RAT pack initially met in Verdi at the local fishing hotspot. Upon arriving, a RAT member noticed a fisherman walking along the tracks to get to his favorite fishing hole. A call to RMCC notified the railroad of a trespasser. …
What does a NO TRESPASSING Sign Mean?
What does a NO TRESPASSING Sign Mean?
Railroad tracks and crossings are very dangerous places if warnings are not heeded. Railroad companies spend time and money to make a person’s time at a crossing or around trains as safe as possible. Warning signs, flashing lights, crossing gates, bells, pave…
Coffee Tracks - Old US 395 and N. Virginia
On Saturday morning March 18, 2023 our RAT pack met at crossing 833573J .
In preparation for our RAT field exercise, RATs always set up an orange traffic warning sign to warn drivers that people are present in the area and to also educate the public. This sign…
Rail Auxiliary Team Press Release
Introducing the Nation’s Premier Community-Based Rail Safety Volunteer Group: the Rail Auxiliary Team
RAT Pack Railway Auxiliary Team
Railway Auxiliary Team in Nevada
Help Keep Rail Roads Safe in Nevada
In emergencies, notify the railroad fir…
Coffee Tracks - Mustang Exit off I80
Our “Pack of Rats” gathered Saturday morning by the Chevron station at the Mustang exit off of Interstate 80. This area was chosen so that we could take a look at how things have changed in this area since the railroad was put in circa 1868. In a wonderful book, The Central Pacific Railroad Acro…
Coffee Tracks - Mogul, NV
If you arrived early to Coffee Tracks, you got a great view of an East bound Union Pacific manifest train! One of our early RATS even caught a man down the hill beside track 2 changing his clothes. Sorry, no picture of this trespasser! You truly never know what you will come across by the tracks.
…Coffee Tracks - West End of the UP Sparks Yard
Little did we know of the excitement that would occur during our Coffee Tracks time at the Union Pacific Sparks Yard! As the "pack" of RATS began to gather, the scanner alerted us to an event taking place in the yard by one of the tracks. A railroad worker discovered a residential propane tank with…
Unusual Cargo Transported By Train
Have you ever been out by the tracks and thought to yourself, "Wow, I never knew they transported that by train?"
Below are a few examples of unusual cargo that has been shipped by train.
Airline Parts
The Boeing company regularly ships parts of planes by rail between the manufacturing plan…
Coffee Tracks - Waltham Way, Storey County, NV
The Starbucks coffee had arrived, our orange safety warning signs had been setup and we were ready to go checkout the crossing at Waltham Way - only to have to wait for an East bound train to travel thru the crossing. (No disappointment for any of us!) As we have been trained to do, we got…
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