The Wabash Railroad Co.
Downloading images and data (some rules):
There are no restrictions on copying text or other data but images or photos are a different matter. You may download ANY of the photographic material for your personal use only! You are not allowed to make copies to sell, trade, exchange or give to any other person or organization; publish or re-distribute in any way without my written permission or the written permission of the author, photographer and/or contributor. Abuse of this will result in removal of the photo from this site or placing a large copyright statement across the subject.
However, if you want to
put together a digital slide show to show to your friends or railroad club, please do so. I do not have a problem with that but please give credit to this web site and to the photographer.
A few words about the images and the photographers. Most of the black and white images that I have placed on this site have been made from negatives that I have purchased over the years. Some are scans of photos in my collection and I know the photographer but a negative does not exist (most of these are from Max Miller who lost his negatives in a house fire). Others are downloads from the Internet but, in this case, the photographer is not known. Some words about photographers follow.
Starting in the late 1960's, I began purchasing negatives from Cyril A. Butcher, Paul B. Dunn, Arthur B. Johnson, John Krause and others. Most did not actually take all of their material but bought, sold and traded negatives as we do today with original color slides. For the negatives that I own, I have tried to identify the original photographer but I don't always know who that is. Some may have been taken by Paul Stringham, Charles Winters, Charles Felstead and Clyde Harper. I also have scanned many photos by the late Max Miller as mentioned above. He made copy negatives from 8x10's which he somehow had saved from that house fire and he sold prints made from those copy negatives. Many of the photos from Michigan are copies purchased from the late Claude T. Stoner of Dexter, Michigan. C. T., as he preferred, traveled all over the state photographing trains and photocopying old photos.
-- John