It was announced by an FRA representative at SACP that individuals had shown a FRA business card to a crew and had ridden a train with them and asked numerous questions about operations and rules. The FRA representative stated that these were not FRA personnel and that the only acceptable FRA credential has a picture ID and the background has a hologram with the FRA logo. This particular representative claimed that railroad employees would trigger a citation if they failed to ask for credentials and if they do ask, a business card is not acceptable. Please get the word out to your members.
Charles E. Hintz
Chairman,
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen
515-251-6378
cehintz@msn.com
