Cargo train thefts spike in Los Angeles County

Legendary Union Pacific railroad police arrive in the Wild West to quell train robberies
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/legendary-union-pacific-railroad-police-arrive-in-the-wild-west-to-quell-train-robberies
LOS ANGELES, California — It’s been 121 years since the Wild Bunch blew apart a Union Pacific train in Wyoming and stole $30,000 in the famous Great Train Robbery depicted in countless movies.

Back then, the Union Pacific Police Department was on the job, chasing down outlaws Jesse James, the Dalton Gang, and the Younger brothers, who all targeted trains carrying valuable cargo traveling between America’s two coasts.

Now, in 2022, the fabled successors to the Pinkerton Detective Agency are once again called to tame the Wild West. Six Union Pacific agents have arrived to stop a new trend that has seen $5 million in goods stolen during the past year from trains leaving Los Angeles's beleaguered ports.....