[PRCo] Re: Brilliance in Transit Management

[James B. Holland]

Bob Rathke wrote:

> This proposed rule is not new.       I recall seeing signs in New York 
> City subway stations in the early 1960's warning that photography on 
> NYCTA property was forbidden.       In 1958, a friend sneaked a photo 
> of a train approaching an elevated platform in Queens, but it was the 
> only photo that he attempted to take on TA property.
>
> Also in the 1950s, a policeman in the PRR station in Pittsburgh 
> stopped me from taken a photo of a train there.       The B&O station 
> across town was always more railfan friendly.
>
> Such paranoia about photography seemed to ease by the 1980's,


"""Collecting pictures of trolleys is a favorite hobby;  and during the 
war years fans were occasionally picked up by the police, having been 
turned in by suspicious patriots who had seen them photographing 
carbarns and rolling stock."""


The  *War__Years*  referred to here are during WW2.       This is a 
quote from pg.191 of Frank Rowsome's  *Trolley__Car__Treasury,*  
published in 1956.       Harassment of photographers is not something 
unique today.


Jim__Holland