Less than 500 yards from where I sit the Union Pacific has a massive train yard. Should I want to do something Nasty, I could get whatever info I wanted simply by using a pair of binoculars. So could anyone, nearly anywhere.

Suppose I was able to hijack a train carrying nuclear waste. If I do something with it here, I make no political statement; if I try to take it somewhere else the railroad shunts me onto a track to nowhere. Most importantly, the authorities know where I am and they are either waiting or there very, very soon. If I crash the train, the radioactive waste pollutes a small section of fairly empty land (and yes, such DOES exist in the eastern US and even in Britain).

The railroad is being silly.