The dogs started barking like crazy today at work, so I got up to let Grungie be loud OUTSIDE. But before I opened the door, I saw a guy wearing a police jacket heading toward the door. I carefully squeezed out so Grungie wouldn’t barrel at him. “Hi!” he greeted me, “I’m Union Pacific police. We had a whole lot of copper wire stolen from the lines by your house last night.” I carefully let Grungie out and him in without either one of them surprising the other. “Wow,” he said. “That is a BIG dog.”

I got Duncan who had driven after dark last night and said he saw some taillights heading down the RR dirt access road. The train cop took down all of his information. The cop said that copper wire is going for $3/lb, and there’s 7 ft/lb. There were no trains all day, just cherry pickers out there putting up new wire. Can’t run trains if you don’t have signals.

Seems like they should figure out some system that doesn’t use copper, since they can’t guard miles of it. Time to go wireless?