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Union Pacific Holds Care Days In Atchison

By Lauren Williams

05/03/2017

(KAIR)--A special safety event to raise awareness for safe behavior around trains and train crossings.

That was put on by Union Pacific Railroad Tuesday morning in Atchison.

“We call these, UP Cares Events,” said Lindsay Douglass, director of public affairs for Union Pacific in Kansas and Missouri. “We partner with local media and local law enforcement to really bring awareness to the safety needs of the community as it relates to railroad tracks.”

For a little more than an hour, the Union Pacific crew in Atchison crossed the train back and forth over the 10th and 4th street train crossings in Atchison with both local Atchison Police and Union Pacific Police ready to spot infractions and educate those people on proper train safety.

“We're a warehouse that doesn't have roofs or walls,” Douglass said. “So, when we're moving product, we have to interact with the public. All of that interaction that happens around our railroad tracks are really what we're focusing on in these events.”

Douglass said one of the biggest threats to public safety is the new trend of taking selfies on or by the train tracks and even photography in general in that area.

“Our focus here lately is how unsafe it is to take photographs, movies, selfies,” she said.

Douglass reminds everyone Union Pacific owns not only the train tracks but 50 feet around them, so any photography or just being by or close to the tracks is trespassing punishable by law.

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