Eunice Police officers and a Union Pacific Railroad police officer discuss a railroad crossing safety session on Tuesday morning at the railroad site off La. 13. From left, are Sgt. Sebastien Noel, Officer Chase Godeaux, Officer Corina Schexneider, Lt. Donnie Thibodeaux, Union Pacific Railroad senior special agent Joshua Guillory, Officer Bryan Wiles and Sgt. Trace Tilbury.
The locomotive is stopped in this photo, but crossing in front of one these machines when they are running is risky business. Eunice Police and Union Pacific Railroad employees conducted a safety training on Tuesday focusing on crossings. (Photos by Harlan Kirgan)
Inside the locomotive are, from left, Timothy Dickerson, engineer, and Tracy Brown, conductor.
A Union Pacific Railroad locomotive crossed back and forth across Eunice for about two hours on Tuesday to educate police officers about crossing safety.
“The main purpose of this is education,” said Josh Guillory, senior special agent for the railroad’s police department.
“There is no priority for writing tickets. The main deal is the public knows that if they are going through those crossing…
