BHC Loc: Strawberry Valley, JF, USA

I applaud you for reading the entire text of Title 49, with referenced portions of the USC. Since you are obviously more of an authority than I am with regard to the subject matter under discussion, I will yield to your wisdom and admit that my experiences with the FRA have been limited to participation in railroad operations and the rules of conduct under which I have worked. I cannot and will not quote the part and sub-part of Federal law that governs trespassing and interference with the operation of a railroad. Nor am I in the mood, having just received notice of a multiple fatality incident on an operating line. Since the vast majority of railway-relater incidents are the result of violation of regulations by both railroad personnel and civilian/citizen individuals (as opposed to equipment failure), I also choose not to argue the absolute stupidity of underestimating the dangers of encroachment on railroad property.

twna Loc: Western Colorado

Oh yes, we've been on fire since the middle of June. Fire bans state wide, no barbeques, no fireworks, no cutting firewood unless you have water and fire extinguishers present. Serious stuff!

mickeys Loc: Fort Wayne, IN

yea as long as the root isn't killed it will grow back..

mickeys Loc: Fort Wayne, IN

be very careful twna. don't want you to burn too.

Jim Peters Loc: Pittsburgh

Copyright Laws Are FEDERAL! ALL COPYRIGHT LAWS ,STATE : "WRITTEN PERMISSION"
If You Belong To The PP Of A That's Professional Photographers Of America.
One Of The PERKS! Are That You Get About One Half Hour With A Washington DC Copy Right Attorney FREE. Why A DC Attorney? Because It Is FEDERAL LAW.
DC Copy Right Attorneys Are Really The Only Attorneys That understand US Copy Right Laws.

pounder35 Loc: "Southeast of Disorder"

Is this now a legal forum? :roll: I thought I was on Ambulance Chaser.com :lol: Just kidding. It's good info when you're charging for shooting and selling photos. As a "second" photographer there may be a problem since my understanding is that whoever shot a photo owns that photo. The exception would be that if you have a contract with an assistant or "second" photographer you retain the rights to what they shoot. Too much legal BS for me. :roll:
It is a good subject matter. :thumbup:

henrycrafter Loc: Orem Utah

IN WRITING!!! EVERYTHING IN WRITING!!!
By law pictures that any one takes are intellectual property and as such are protected under the copy right laws.
I deal with this issue everyday and if you have it in writing you can do what ever the agreement states.

Jim Peters Loc: Pittsburgh

Bravo!!!

jolly1

Back in the wonderful days of the Great Depression, when the Hobos were the Kings of the road, (railroads that is) no Hobo was ever busted, beaten, or arrested by Federal, State, or even local Law Enforcement.
It was always the "Railway Bulls", a bunch of roughnecks that the different railroad companies hired to try to keep the hobos
off of their trains. Private Cops. They were the worst of the worst. They went after the hobos with baseball bats, clubs, trace chains, shotguns. By the end of the hobo era, there were no less than one thousand murders of hobos by the railroad bulls recorded.
But you corrected your own error. The individual states either have, or do not have, specific laws governing the entry onto railroad property. You found the information, now read it.
When I was out on various railroad property, photographing the tracks, or the rolling stock, I have, more than once, been offered rides on motorized "handcars" by railway inspection crews. All I ever needed was an honest face and a camera.
Occasionally, when asked, simply out of curiosity, why I was taking pictures of the railroad, I simply said that I was writing a book and needed to illustrate it. Then, every railroader within ten miles wanted me to take his picture for the book. . . . .

UP-2-IT Loc: RED STICK, LA

But what is Private Propert unless it is marked as such.

UP-2-IT Loc: RED STICK, LA

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UP-2-IT Loc: RED STICK, LA

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jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I heard rumors of that. Glad to hear that some rumors are true.

UP-2-IT Loc: RED STICK, LA

Don't worry about the seals, just use duktape.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

And use Gorilla Glue to hold the Duktape in place.