The number you have reached... (B&M Police)

If you call the (old) railroad police 1-800-955-9217 they dont answer anymore or they are just out to lunch 24 hours a day 7 days a week!! hahaha..... it's just so pathetic in 2006 t0 be saying "maybe they wern't needed after all".

Strange. They used to have a voicemail system but maybe they pulled the plug on that too...?

There is an answering machine- but no voice mail, I do remember they had voice mail a while back, and to return to an answering machine system, well it's possible that was a bit too advanced.

I tried the 9217 after getting it off one of the orange tresspass stickers to report coal spilling out of a passing hopper on the 14th. Twice it kept ringing, no answer. I see a different emergency 800 number posted on the Pan Am Home Page.

The web site says "In Case of Emergency contact Operations Center at 800-955-9208" -- but as wintrain noted, that's not the number printed on the thousands of little orange signs all over the railroad.

MEC407 wrote:The web site says "In Case of Emergency contact Operations Center at 800-955-9208" -- but as wintrain noted, that's not the number printed on the thousands of little orange signs all over the railroad.

Was out at E.Portal last week. The orange signs are pasted onto every stationary object in sight. However when I got there, a family was exploring the Portal. They left, and then a few minutes later another couple with a small child pulled up and parked, explored the portal, then hung about the grade crossing when they heard a train coming. It's obvious that no one, locally, is concerned about the No Trespassing signs being enforced. I noticed also that I couldn't have called the number since there was no cell phone service.