Phoebe Vet wrote: Just respect their property rights and safety efforts and you SHOULD be fine.Take your pictures from someplace that you have a right to be.
Just respect their property rights and safety efforts and you SHOULD be fine.
Take your pictures from someplace that you have a right to be.
Very good words ! and stay away from yards..there to much trouble and too closed in to get good pics...
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
I have seen many photos of CTA trains over the years, so, it can't be too restrictive of a policy. The best you can do is ask.
Welcome to the forums as well!...
Welcome to this forum. I also don't know about CTA's photography policy, but the best place to find out is to go to CTA's web site, their photography policy might be posted there. If it isn't posted on CTA's web site then you might contact CTA and ask them about their photography policy.
I hate to see a first-time poster go un-responded-to, so let me first say "Welcome" to the Forum, then caution you that, as a non-photographer, I'm not speaking from experience.
Metra had a rather high-profile (in railfan circles) case a couple of years ago, in which it affirmed that photography on its platforms was perfectly legal. Just stay on the platforms and don't interfere with the trains or the customers.
This may not apply to the downtown stations, which are just too busy.
I also don't know about CTA.
Carl
Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)
CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)
Hello,
I am rather new to photographing trains, but have been railfanning for many years. I live in Chicago and would like to photograph CTA and METRA trains for personal, noncommercial purposes. I know all the "ground rules" don't trespass on property, don't try to access non public areas without permission, etc. I have heard many different things about the CTA and METRA photography "policies," and people getting questioned by METRA and Chicago Police. Does anyone have any advice on where I can photograph the CTA and Metra? Is it legal to take pictures from a CTA or Metra platform? On a train? How about photographing Union La Salle, or Ogilvie stations? Are these areas considered public? I would appreciate any advice or ideas that anyone can provide.
Thanks!
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