>> On Jun 1, 9:08 pm, "Uncle Joe" over.com> wrote:

>>> "Greg Sutherland" ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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>>> Union Station is a great place and an example of what Sydney's Central could
>>> be like, great shopping and great food. No one stopped my taking pics when I
>>> was there last year.

>> Having been to Several Amtrak Stations myself they were al re -
>> furbished back in the ealy 1990's.
>> The Security Guard was caught of Guard when he didin't realise the CEO
>> was also standing by
>> when he was being interviewed.
>>
>> Taking photographs of Railway Stations in the Former Soviet Union and
>> other Eastern Bloc countries
>> when they were under communism rule was also forbidden. If you were
>> caught taking photographs
>> your film was taken out of your camera and destroyed.

>
> Even "post Soviet", it was frowned upon... I raised the eyebrows of
> our Intourist guide in mid-1991 when I climbed the overbridge at
> Ulan-Ude in the Buryat Republic, just east of Lake Baikal, to take a
> pic of the "Rossiya"/Trans-Siberian.