My wife and I reserved a cabin car for a long trip from Oakland to Denver. After entering the cabin in Oakland there was a knock on our door. I opened the door and a man identified himself as Amtrak police and asked me if a bag he was holding was ours. He was dressed like a normal passenger, undercover. He had a badge which he briefly flashed and then immediately asked me if this bag was ours. He jammed himself into the door and showed the badge in such a way that I could not close the door, and his badge was not visible to people in the hallway.
It wasn't and I had never seen it before, so we said no. He went away. Later he came back and asked the same question again. This time I was sick of him and told him to leave us alone, and that it wasn't our bag. He left us alone after that.
Prior to this I had no idea Amtrak police even existed. The guy was a jerk and was clearly trying to get us to admit to owning this bag. I have no idea why, but but I do regret not getting a better look at his badge. It could have been some plastic kids badge for the amount of time he showed it to me.
I've heard every LIRR train has at least a couple of state(?) police on it at all times. This is very much hearsay, but if it's true it may be a condition on many other train lines as well.
In the middle of a ride once, the train stopped because of some investigation and all passengers had to exit. Before/as this happened I saw at least two state troopers walking through my car to another car; while they could have gotten on the train at a station, I believe they were already on the train...
My wife and I reserved a cabin car for a long trip from Oakland to Denver. After entering the cabin in Oakland there was a knock on our door. I opened the door and a man identified himself as Amtrak police and asked me if a bag he was holding was ours. He was dressed like a normal passenger, undercover. He had a badge which he briefly flashed and then immediately asked me if this bag was ours. He jammed himself into the door and showed the badge in such a way that I could not close the door, and his badge was not visible to people in the hallway.
It wasn't and I had never seen it before, so we said no. He went away. Later he came back and asked the same question again. This time I was sick of him and told him to leave us alone, and that it wasn't our bag. He left us alone after that.
Prior to this I had no idea Amtrak police even existed. The guy was a jerk and was clearly trying to get us to admit to owning this bag. I have no idea why, but but I do regret not getting a better look at his badge. It could have been some plastic kids badge for the amount of time he showed it to me.