Eastern Railroad Discussion > CSX Railroad Policeman

Mention has been made of a relatively new (hired in 2011) CSX "special agent" who started out in Brunswick, MD and now works out of Cumberland, MD. Allegedly, he has written up unsuspecting trout fishermen in the FO (Foley) area of Sand Patch grade.

Don Buracker had been the Harpers Ferry Police Chief. Anybody here on TO met the man?


http://www.journal-news.net/page/content.detail/id/555679/Buracker-leaving-Harpers-Ferry.html%3Fnav%3D5006



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/22/14 11:44 by cinder.

looks as though a person needs to be a subscriber to read that entire article.

Sounds like a new "Cinderdick" legend in the making. Everyone reviled UP "Rusty" at Techachapi, CA. now we have "muckraker" on Sandpatch?

Does he drive a marked white Ford Explorer with lightbar?
One of those marked CSX Police rode through Shenandoah Junction
and kept going last week
hollywood
NS B-Line MP 74

holiwood Wrote:
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> Does he drive a marked white Ford Explorer with
> lightbar?
> One of those marked CSX Police rode through
> Shenandoah Junction
> and kept going last week
> hollywood
> NS B-Line MP 74

Yes

Well, you guys know what to do. Letters of complaint to CSX PR and also to your local Congressmen, Senators, and state legislators, mayor, etc. For trout-fishing, hey? Good GRIEF. Better get this guy off of the job because he's a powder keg waiting to explode. This is the way too "Gung Ho" type with an itchy trigger finger who is simply just "getting off" on his job and the power sensation that he feels from it.

Now was this fisherman on a bridge or on the row? We don't know all of the story.

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If the guy made it to police chief in an area town, he probably understands how to deal with the concerns of political leaders

Lackawanna484 Wrote:
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> If the guy made it to police chief in an area
> town, he probably understands how to deal with the
> concerns of political leaders

Or maybe not? Perhaps he was "promoted" to citizen?

John R -- CP Spring
Carlisle, PA

After doing a little Googling and reading various
newspaper articles about his resigning as Harpers
Ferry's police chief. It appears he left because
he could make more money as a CSX cop. He was with
the Harpers Ferry PD for 20 years, 12 years as chief.
So I don't think he was "promoted" to citizen.

BaltoJoey

PS: Go to page 6 of the Feb., 2013 issue of CSX
Police Magazine. There is an article about him.
Reading the article, he appears to be strict.
But also compassionate to those in need.

Link: http://www.csx.com/share/wwwcsx_mura/assets/File/Community/CSX%20Police/CSX%20Police%20News%20February%202013.pdf

Lackawanna484 Wrote:
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> If the guy made it to police chief in an area
> town, he probably understands how to deal with the
> concerns of political leaders

I wouldn't make that leap too readily. My hometown in Northern NY's current police chief only made it because nobody else wanted the job, and they couldn't find anyone else qualified willing to move there.

Not suggesting that's the case for this guy, but sometimes, you're the lesser of two evils.

There may also be a pension angle at work here. In NJ, most police officers are covered under the state retirement plan, and most do not pay into social security. Officers can retire with 25 years in, and age 45, with credit for military etc service.

At that age, you're in a good position to take a job which pays into social security and has its own pension or company match 401K. Sticking around with the old job doesn't increase your pension by very much.

Lackawanna484 Wrote:
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> There may also be a pension angle at work here.
> In NJ, most police officers are covered under the
> state retirement plan, and most do not pay into
> social security. Officers can retire with 25 years
> in, and age 45, with credit for military etc
> service.
>
> At that age, you're in a good position to take a
> job which pays into social security and has its
> own pension or company match 401K. Sticking around
> with the old job doesn't increase your pension by
> very much.

Maybe especially true in this instance, given that railroad bulls get full RRB compensation at retirement age...

He rode through Shenandoah Junction today
hollywood
NS B-Line MP 74

Lackawanna484 Wrote:
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> If the guy made it to police chief in an area
> town, he probably understands how to deal with the
> concerns of political leaders

Uhhh...my local sheriff was just indicted. And on the other side of the river, 3 or the 5 last police chiefs have all gone to jail. So I wouldn't necessarily say that the "position" means much...

I've know of some real characters that were constables in small towns...

wabash2800 Wrote:
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> I've know of some real characters that were
> constables in small towns...

Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane & Boss Hogg made quite the pair, didn't they?

Red Wrote:
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> Lackawanna484 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > If the guy made it to police chief in an area
> > town, he probably understands how to deal with
> the
> > concerns of political leaders
>
> Uhhh...my local sheriff was just indicted. And on
> the other side of the river, 3 or the 5 last
> police chiefs have all gone to jail. So I wouldn't
> necessarily say that the "position" means much...

Naaah. It means he wasn't covering his tracks, or wasn't cutting in enough people on his deals.