Talk:Sussex Railroad

Photo

The photo with the caption reading "Newton station site in May 2015" is not the station site. It shows the Trinity Street crossing. The station was located on lower Spring street between the Moose Lodge and the Station House Plaza (which was originally the freight house.) -Dave Rutan — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.2.43.74 (talk) 00:53, 30 May 2015 (UTC)

Source

Is there a source for the Did You know hook "was the last independently operated New Jersey railroad to be incorporated into the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad system?"? Thanks. Redrocketboy 20:18, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Certainly. It's repeated and sourced further down the page. The source for that particular tidbit is from: Taber, Thomas Townsend. (1977). The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad; The Road of Anthracite: In the Nineteenth Century: 1828-1899. 144-147. Cheers, Rkitko ^(talk) 20:25, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Ah so it is. Cheers. Redrocketboy 20:31, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

The images on this wiki page

I've just noticed that most if not all of the images on your wiki page have been taken from the DLW-SussexBranch.com website. You did not even bother to change the file names of the images. Did you ask the DLW-SussexBranch webguy if you could use them? —Preceding unsigned comment added by NJ Esperantist (talk • contribs) 00:08, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

The images are in the public domain because they were published in the US prior to 1923 or the copyright has expired (author's life + 70 years). No permission is required from the website owner who posted them. Cheers, --Rkitko ^(talk) 03:08, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm thinking you aren't a rail historian, or else you don't care about a rep (or at least not a good one.) It's pretty much standard practice to at the very least ASK before just grabbing images which you just use on another part of the web. Railharper (talk) 01:48, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

It may be polite to ask, but there is no requirement and certainly doesn't harm one's reputation if such images are in the public domain and free to distribute. I also don't think it's impolite not to ask. The images are provided and not under any copyright. If the website owner doesn't want people redistributing the PD photos, they can remove them from their website. Cheers, Rkitko ^(talk) 02:04, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Now I notice the dlw-sussexbranch website has a suspended account notice. Any idea what that's about? Did the owner take it down? 67.237.12.149 (talk) 18:19, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

No, it looks like a simple hosting problem. Perhaps he let his hosting payments lag. --Rkitko ^(talk) 20:42, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Images posted on websites do not fall under public domain. If you own the postcard or picture itself, you can post but you are not allowed by law to remove and post pictures off of websites without written permission, regardless of the reason. Some of the pictures you posted are not actually postcards, and have copyrights regardless of their age. Just because a picture was taken prior to 1923 does not mean it was published immediately as well. The owner of the DLW-Sussex Branch website did get permission to post on his website only. You are in violation of public domain regulations pertaining to internet images. I would strongly suggest you remove the pictures from your site before any legal action is taken. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sbrr (talk • contribs) 02:19, 5 September 2008 (UTC)