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Train Track Sessions are Illegal? UPDATED!
Apr 03 16 07:53 am Link Roughly every three hours in the U.S., a person or vehicle is hit by a train. 2920 persons each year? How many suicides/suicide attempts are among these? Apr 03 16 12:10 pm Link Yet one more reason to never shoot on train tracks Apr 03 16 12:17 pm Link The writer makes an anti-train track blog post that is littered with his own photos of girls on train tracks? K... Apr 03 16 12:22 pm Link Laura UnBound wrote: QFT. Apr 03 16 02:14 pm Link Yes, shooting on train tracks without the express permission of the railroad (which is all but impossible to get, btw) is indeed illegal. The fines for getting caught doing it run into the thousands of dollars PER PERSON, meaning if you are the shooter, take one assistant (or ten) and one model (or ten), each of you, all of you whether 3 or 30, will be charged and fined separately and each several thousand dollars. The railroad police do not mess around, and yes, there are police separate from and unconnected to local, state, of federal police. And they have the power to arrest you, and haul you off to jail. In my little town of 60,000 people, there is a railroad tressell over the river from which someone gets killed every 2 or 3 years. There are signs, and yet people insist on going out onto that tressell, and being a mile long, there's no outrunning a train if you are in the middle when one comes along. So, yes, people get killed every year nationwide, which is why the railroads are very adamant in enforcing the no-tresspassing laws. The moral of the story is simple: STAY THE HELL OFF THE TRAIN TRACKS. ALL OF THEM. WHEREVER THEY ARE. Apr 03 16 06:02 pm Link Apr 03 16 06:16 pm Link DeanLautermilch wrote: So what ISN'T illegal?? Apr 04 16 01:42 am Link John Silva Photography wrote: I don't see how this could get one in trouble with anyone but PETA and maybe the model's chest-thumping mate. Apr 04 16 02:19 am Link How does everyone not know this? Especially after the Midnight Rider movie death and injuries. Apr 04 16 06:50 am Link Only illegal if you get caught or die Apr 04 16 09:34 am Link You do need to be careful because trains come like a bat out of hell and if you're on a trestle or something you're screwed. Apr 04 16 09:42 am Link TomFRohwer wrote: Rail system in Germany? I bet your rail system has a few. Apr 04 16 10:20 am Link I never understood why in hell anyone would wanna do this on the tracks instead of a flower field or some crusty industrial zone on weekends when they are all closed. Apr 04 16 10:37 am Link J-walking and speeding are also illegal and in their totality are related to many fatalities every year. There's a train track between my building and one of the parking lots, people illegally cross regularly. The pedestrian crossing isn't convenient and has no lights or gate anyways. They sent the train cops out one day, which dissuaded people for about a week. Apr 04 16 10:59 am Link The F-Stop wrote: Funny how suddenly so many here are a goody two shoes! Apr 04 16 11:50 am Link This looks like a good one to shoot on:  Apr 04 16 12:12 pm Link Now if we can just make wrapping models in caution tape illegal . . . Apr 04 16 12:22 pm Link Michelle Genevieve wrote: Michelle, unwrap at your own risk....., Models are damned dangerous!!!! LoL loL Apr 04 16 02:34 pm Link Michelle Genevieve wrote: With a gas mask, and a Fur Hat. Apr 04 16 02:38 pm Link Apr 04 16 02:45 pm Link Isis22 wrote: You would think, but you'd be wrong. Apr 04 16 02:47 pm Link Does all of this apply to abandoned rail lines, I wonder? There are thousands of miles of old, abandoned track in North America alone. Apr 04 16 02:53 pm Link  Apr 04 16 03:00 pm Link Lightcraft Studio wrote: There's room to stand on the rail while the train goes by, I don't see a problem here. Apr 04 16 03:19 pm Link TomFRohwer wrote: A former running coach of mine was a train conductor before he retired and according to him, suicide by train is a burden conductors experience... Apr 04 16 04:22 pm Link highStrangeness wrote: Yes, yes, it does. I would highly recommend you follow some of the links in the article linked by the OP. Believe it or not, every once in a while otherwise seemingly abandoned lines sometimes do see a train, and in any case, even abandoned lines are on private property, not public right-of-way. Apr 04 16 04:36 pm Link Park Avenue Pin-ups wrote: LoL Apr 04 16 06:34 pm Link shooting without some form of trespass or infraction is boring. Apr 05 16 08:24 am Link Orca Bay Images wrote: Apr 05 16 08:58 am Link John Silva Photography wrote: Or idiots and non-idiots. Guess which camp you fall into... Apr 05 16 09:01 am Link I have a lot of images in this group https://www.flickr.com/groups/2852835@N22/pool/ I guess the group will be closed and all images deleted. Apr 05 16 07:05 pm Link Laura UnBound wrote: two photos, and the amount of rust on the rails show that no train on them in years! Apr 05 16 07:20 pm Link Giacomo Cirrincioni wrote: LoL. LoL. Looks like someone got their TOE stepped on!!!! LoL. LoL Apr 05 16 08:14 pm Link Giacomo Cirrincioni wrote: John Silva Photography wrote: Not at all. Apr 05 16 08:32 pm Link The F-Stop wrote: Don't quote me, but if you're dead, it is unlikely they are going to arrest you. Apr 05 16 08:59 pm Link Years ago, I had the perfect set up for train track shots. It was a short segment of abandoned line--- maybe 250 yards. There was no track connected to either end, it was part of an old industrial site, and was part of the old switching yard- the track made a sharp bend at each end, leaving the end out of sight. The area had been deeded to the city as part of a future park, so was public property, no fences... They never built the park, but the whole area is now under a huge housing tract. Just as well, I got tired pretty quick of track shots  Apr 05 16 09:15 pm Link TheNormGallerys wrote: You leave metal outside for a week and it rusts...and it's not exactly like we take good care of our shit here in North America, rust/wear/age means nothing. Apr 05 16 11:45 pm Link Tragic. Photographers will be left with freeway median strips and small airport runways. Apr 06 16 04:02 am Link It's illegal because the railroad owns the right of way and you are trespassing. The reason there are so many deaths is not because people are trying to hurt themselves, it's because people are stupid. Either because they don't watch for oncoming trains and get hit like that movie crew in Georgia or because they don't understand about the suction caused by a moving train. They walk close to the train because it's cool to do or it's a thrill and the suction carries them under the train. Apr 08 16 04:19 am Link |
