Trains’ Checked Bags to Be Scanned. The federal government will start screening checked bags next week on five trains leaving from Union Station, the first time this airport-style security measure will be used to safeguard trains. Officials at the Transportation Security Administration said the experiment will last a month and is designed to find out whether screening checked bags is a useful way to protect against terrorist attacks on trains. TSA officials said bags would be screened by the same three-dimensional imaging machines that have been used at airports since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The screening will occur from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. weekdays and will affect only the five train lines that begin at Union Station and allow checked bags: the Carolinian, Silver Star, Capital Limited, Cardinal and Palmetto. Full Story
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