by dispatcher812
Does any one know if the crews at the Plainfield engine house allow people to take pictures?
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dispatcher812 wrote:Does any one know if the crews at the Plainfield engine house allow people to take pictures?I don't think the crews can or cannot give you permission to be on railroad property. If you want to enter railroad property, pay a visit to the office and ask for permission. Otherwise, try to get your pictures from public property.
3rdrail wrote:Actually, I believe that they can, Otto, as long as they're employees of the RR. Legally, they're company agents. That's a trick that most news and professional photographers use - select an individual that you know, or at the very least looks like he might be amiable and get the permission from them, often by-passing higher authority. Truthfully, it's worked for me for many years, and there is no doubt in my mind that had I gone through official administrative channels to get permission to half of the places that I have gone with my camera, I would have been instantly denied. Instead, I took the "diverging route", got the permission, and as a result was just as lawfully therein as if the General Manager had made the ok. Like the old saying goes, "You can't tell the players without a scorecard."Just because they did it for you doesn't mean that they can legally do it. If you get hurt and tell somebody that so and so