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Originally Posted by BrennanW
I've run into problems trying to photograph Metra before. I was approached by multiple security guards last Spring taking pictures at Van Buren station. They really started to resent me when I came back the next day with my camera.
Such a shame. Van Buren is such a beautiful station.
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That's surprising. One morning in 2008, ahead of rush hour, I was hanging around the Van Buren platform taking photos of arriving and departing trains. The station manager came out and chatted a bit to see what I was up to, and then introduced me to the security officer just in case a passenger reported suspicious activity later on. Then, he gave me a map of downtown and marked some other good spots for railroad photography. I've been all over Randolph/South Water Street/Millennium Park Station and 55-56-57th Street with my camera many times over the past ten or twelve years and have only been questioned one other time and never prohibited from taking photos.
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