Here is a message from the Louisiana Railfan & Model Railroad Group concerning activity for SP 2-8-2 745 around New Orleans on 1-7 March. The first part of...
Does UP or any other company hold proprietary rights to any Southern Pacific advertising or images once included in publications such as public brochures,...
... Dennis, UP lawyers will try and tell you that they do, but whether that's true or not has been the subject of serious litigation in the past few months....
Dennis, My response to your question about copyright on SP reproductions is to go on the UP Museum web site and pose the question to them. I had a problem...
Thanks for the inputs from some of you. I hate to readily accede that UP or the UP Museum has rights because they are far from unbiased in this regard....
As to the use of advertising with SP identity in it, as long as it is accompanied with even a minimal caption saying to the effect that this is an SP ad from...
John R. signor
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Mar 5, 2005 2:04 am
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Here's another photo I found on the net. It's TNO #975, in pretty bad shape. http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=75305...
"In October 1879, the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railroad began surveying a proposed extension of their track to La Grange, intending to tie into...
Token. When Thomas W. Peirce finally got his Galveston, Harrisburg, & San Antonio Railway building westward from Columbus, TX toward San Antonio in April of...
431. MAJOR JAMES CONVERSE,9 born in Aurora, Ohio, 21 September 1828; for twenty-one years, Chief Engineer of the Galveston, Harrisburg, and San Antonio...
What's wrong with this statement from a Houston history Web site? "Houston hosted the first Texas State Fair, with the Chamber of Commerce handling most of the...
... -- I understand it was pretty bad shape before it was pulled out of the park in Beaumont, Tx. The only other locomotive from this class is in Houston's...
A view of the old GH&SA hospital: http://library.columbustexas.net/images/00003.htm The "elevated railway": http://library.columbustexas.net/images/00004.htm ...
"When it became clear that the existing railroad had no intention of building a line to La Grange and Austin, as had earlier been intended, a new railroad, the...
The 975 was also towed to Illinois on it's own wheels by some sort of horsepower agreement with the then BN. I do not remember the particulars on this...
IRM personnel prepped No. 975 and used an operable GE U-boat (earlier donated by BN) from its collection to haul the steam locomotive back to Illinois. It left...
Anyone interested in a builder's plate supposedly from locomotive No. 141? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4124&item=6516762337&rd=1 ......
This website has recently been cited on the PRRtalk and Passenger car lists, for different causes http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/search/index.jsp But...
Ed, A very interesting photo. Do you suppose they built their depot over two oil wells? It kinda looks like the early Pennsylvania enclosed oil rig towers...
... No, but I do think they built the pumphouse over two water wells, (I hope) I think it's a very good example of simple, industrial, but attractive, ...
Water is 900 to 1,000 feet down in the Marathon/Sanderson area. The towers over the water wells are taller for this reason. A similar pumphouse at Longfellow...
Up-Date for pavilion party. April 2nd. ... From: Tommy Shults To: RAILSPOT ; Tommy Shults Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 5:38 AM Subject: Flatonia Up-Date...
For readers or collectors of magazines there are two fine photo-essays in "CTC Board" on this section of the Sunset Route. The first came out in September...
This tidbit of information comes from a Web site on the King Bridge Company. Anyone know where the five-span bridge might have been? "The pre-1890 catalogue...
This is a u-date to todays Up-Date for the Pavilion Party #4. Lester Haines will also be there with his short Line Books for sale. And also to promote is up...
This link should take you to some photos and video clips I made with my cell phone during the break in run of SP 745 in the New Orleans area this past weekend....
Enjoyed the video. I didn't make it this month to see the 745 but I was there in December when my friend donated an SP 6 chime step top whistle to LASTA for...
Skip thanks for the e-mail and link to those awesome pictures. It sent shivers through me to watch that beautiful train roll down the line. It truly was an...
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