taking photos

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Any person has a constitutional right to take a picture of anything they
want as long as they are on public property, and doing it safely of course
(no standing in the middle of a street.)  TRAINS magazine has had many good
writ ups on this issue with recommendations of what to say to RR employees
or police.

John Rhodes

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:11 AM, NW Mailing List
<nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>wrote:


> Skip Salmon in his post to the group wrote this:

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> Passed around also was the latest "Trains" magazine which has an article

> "Amtrak plans photo program" which outlines the new policy of Amtrak for

> rail fans to photograph trains from their platforms. Now you must "notify

> Amtrak officials BEFORE taking pictures".

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> I’m not an avid photographer, so I don’t keep abreast of these things.  What’s

> behind the policy?

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> Just 2 days ago a friend of mine related his photography experience around

> the Norton, VA, area.  Recently he was taking pictures of the yard area

> from PUBLIC right-of-way.  The yardmaster saw him, and intentionally went

> out of his way to tell the photographer that photos were NOT allowed!

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> Comments?

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>

> Kim Hensley

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> Huntsville

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