Crimes & Mysteries

For years, I've seen these cruisers blazing about the city.  They look like police cars and I guess they are, but their only concern is related to the CN Rail and the tracks.  So, for all this time, all these years, I've always wanted to ask, but never knew where to direct my queries: Just WHAT do these people police?

I got it in my head yesterday, as I had a lot of extra time to entertain myself, what these guys do.  I related it to the movie, The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, where Andrew Dice Clay played the titular character, Ford Fairlane, who was a "Rock & Roll Detective" who investigated a lot of music related crimes and mysteries.  I equated his duties to that of the CN Rail Police.  They too, investigate train crimes and mysteries.  I don't know if that's true, but for the sake of this posting, that's what I'm sticking with.  At least until someone spoils my fun with facts and this won't be funny anymore.

What kind of crimes and mysteries could possibly be going on in this day and age?  Graffiti seems to be at the top of the list, but as anyone has noticed, while being stuck at a CN railway crossing for twenty minutes or more, the crackdown on railcar graffiti doesn't seem to be working.  As far as the eye can see, it's one unreadable piece of "artwork" after another.  I find it's a real struggle trying to decipher what the hell the messages say that are emblazoned upon each passing car.  If the CN police can't stop the culprits, they should at least make this shit readable.

Other than bad graffiti, what other crimes or mysteries are there to occupy the time of these cops?  I don't think people are still committing train robberies, are they?  Riding up on horseback, sticking some dynamite on the door of an armoured railcar and blasting it to hell, while their cohorts are holding the train engineer at gunpoint.  There's no gold or government money being transferred via train, anymore, is there?  This isn't the 1800s, though given recent news, the frame of mind seems to resemble that of the nineteenth century.

What, exactly, what these men and women of the CN Rail Police do, will remain a mystery.  To me, anyway.  I'm sure whatever it is they do, is important to them and I'm sure that it makes interaction with CN trains more safe.  I don't know.  Does it really matter?