Don't Panic, Here Come the Train Marshals!

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To trains need to get marshals or do marshals need to get trained?

http://www.wesh.com/news/5537467/detail.html

Government Considers Marshals On Trains

WINTER PARK, Fla. -- Just one week after two federal air marshals shot and killed a local man at Miami airport, other marshals are being put on some of the nation's trains. Other security measures are being added to protect train travelers in Central Florida, WESH 2 News reported.

Federal marshals are not on trains yet, but they will be on Amtrak trains and perhaps local bus systems if an experiment this week is successful. The government is responding to complaints that air travel is a lot safer since Sept. 11, 2001 while other transportation systems have been ignored.

Undercover air marshals are on thousands of flights a day. They're trained to stop terrorists. Two of those marshals shot and killed a man running from a plane in Miami last week because they said Rigoberto Alpizar, of Maitland, said he had a bomb.

Now, the government is putting marshals on some Amtrak trains. None are on trains in Florida, but could be soon. Eddie and Arlene Delgado ride trains and would like to know marshals are on board. "I think it's long overdue. I'll feel a lot safer on the train," Arlene Delgado said.