According to information filed in Shaw’s office, Daniel Dulaney Carter, 59, of Covington, Ky., has been charged by Norfolk Southern Railroad police with endangering another person, obstructing highways and other public passages and criminal trespass. Carter is accused of illegally operating his 1995 Dodge pickup truck — which is equipped with high-rail wheels — on the railroad tracks at various locations in the area.

Police reported receiving notification that a maintenance crew had run off a high-rail vehicle at milepost 272 on the Lehigh Secondary Line in Sayre on Sept. 23. Police said that the driver of the vehicle produced identification, naming him as Carter. The crew advised Carter that he should not be driving on the tracks.

A few days later, police continued, they interviewed George Blackman, who was one of the crew members who spotted the pickup truck being driven on the tracks. Blackman informed the authorities that he was heading home from work, and as he passed the old train station in Sayre on South Lehigh Street, he spotted a high-rail vehicle that had no markings on the Lehigh Secondary Track. Blackman said he reported what he saw to track foreman Chuck Roberts. Both men went outside and spotted the Dodge pickup heading south on the tracks in reverse gear, according to the report.

Roberts and Blackman caught up with the vehicle at the Walnut Street crossing in Athens. Blackman reported that when the vehicle reached the crossing, the driver drove off the tracks without stopping to disengage the high-rail equipment. When the vehicle was off the tracks, the driver stopped, got out and attempted to disengage the high-rail equipment. Roberts told the police the driver appeared to not know what he was doing — because the normal way would be to stop the vehicle and to disengage the high-rail equipment while the vehicle was on the tracks.

When he asked the driver for some identification, Roberts said, he produced a Kentucky driver’s license, identifying him as Daniel Carter. Roberts said Carter informed him he was inspecting a bridge that was farther down the track.

When he told Carter he was going to report him to the authorities, Roberts said, he left the area in a hurry.

According to the reports. Carter is not an employee of Norfolk Southern Railroad.

Carter is scheduled to appear before Judge Shaw on Nov. 14.