About this site

These photos are a small part of my railroad collection. They represent what I consider to be the better photographs or items of particular interest. I have also tried to include at least one photo of each road (outside of museum items) in my collection.

Screen-size images of nearly all of my photos are or will be available on my site at Railroad Picture Archives; older photos are added as I scan them.

Photos of other subjects may be found at my site at The Vermande Family Website.

Copyright and Reproduction Permission

The copyright statement at our web sites is as follows:

All images and writings are copyright Tim and/or Sherrie Vermande. All material created by us is governed by the Creative Commons Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share Alike 3.0 license. (If we miss an update, consider it updated). This license extends to www.trainweb.org/vermande. It does NOT include "Tracey's home" (lilupyne.blogspot.com) or the site www.vermande.com.

What this means is that you may download our material for your own, non-profit, or educational use. You may include it in another work or create derivative works as long as you credit us for the original and release the new or derivative work under the same license. All commercial rights are reserved. See summary of this license for details.

The images at this site are thumbnail reductions of larger, more detailed scans or digital images. Copies on disc or paper of most pictures are available in a variety of sizes for most uses.

Please credit Tim or Sherrie Vermande and the URL "www.vermande.us".

I am glad to make any photo available to modelers or researchers or to answer questions about use; please e-mail me.

The graphics at this site have been obtained or created from sources stating them to be in the public domain. If you believe them not to be p.d., please let me know.

Please note that while most of the images at this site are our own creation, some material here is NOT our work and is NOT governed by these provisions. Material is used from the following by permission:

• disability graphics from Free Wheeling Graphics
• copyright symbols from the Copyright Symbol Webpage
• radio-related graphics from Amateur Radio Clip Art by Zed Zed
• fire-related graphics (including most of the dogs) from Fire Graphics. A few have been modified by us with longer lines, etc.
• in the academic section of this site, various works are used as cited in their bibliographies or credit pages. Please note that "Fair Use" or licenses may or may not apply to further use of the materials presented.
• images, most commonly photographs, from contributors to the site, which are credited in the caption.

Update: 18 November 2008