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WSOR is dedicated to working with state, county, and local governments to make our rail corridors safe. Each year, WSOR hosts emergency training in cooperation with area emergency responders, police departments, and fire departments. An emergency situation is simulated to create a real-life environment for hands-on training. In this way, responders, officers, and fire fighters can become familiar with the unique aspects of railroad equipment and how it operates.
Field training is supplemented with classroom sessions that cover topics such as safety around railroad tracks and equipment, handling of hazardous materials by rail, emergency contact information, stopping trains, locomotive emergency response, and methods for use in extricating crew members from damaged locomotives in train wrecks.
WSOR has also partnered with GATX—a dealer of rail tank cars—to enhance tank car training for local law enforcement and emergency responders from all over southern Wisconsin. The 3-day event has been held in Janesville and Horicon, Wisconsin and has attracted hundreds of responders. For these events, an actual tank car with displays of tank car equipment was on site. Attendees walked through the interior of a tank car to view first-hand the safety mechanisms that today’s tank cars have in place to protect the safety of the general public and railroad personnel. A classroom session also explained the mechanics and background on tank cars.
For more information, contact
Matt Koser
at 608-243-9101, ext. 202.
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