CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY MUSEUM

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"I'm sorry this letter is so long, I didn't have time to write a short one."
—George Bernard Shaw, writing to a friend.

This website is completely free (as in zip, zero, nada) for more that 99% FAQ of the visitors who just want to enjoy seeing the pictures, etc. online and are not making money by using our restorations. This website and related content is made available only for your personal educational viewing using a web browser and all other rights are expressly reserved by the copyright owner. Permission to browse this copyrighted website requires acceptance of this User Agreement. It is a violation of this agreement and/or U.S. and international copyright laws to download, forward, duplicate, or distribute unauthorized copies of this website or the pictures, even for internal or personal use. Please do not download pictures or other content without first requesting permission.  Pictures on this website are generally copyrighted original skillful restorations. Sorry about all the rights and permissions legalese — otherwise it wouldn't be feasible for rare and valuable collections to be available for your study on the net. Using this site (and all related activity, including sending us messages) means you accept its terms. Don't be put off by the legalese, but please read these terms and conditions of use carefully before using this website, because you are bound by them.  This user agreement is needed mostly to make sure that our good deed of putting all this great stuff on the net goes unpunished, and to emphasize that publication and commercial rights are not being given away, i.e. "Take no pictures ... and leave no footprints" or "Look but don't touch," and there is no warranty.  The goal is for you to enjoy viewing these historic treasures on the CPRR Museum website, not to keep them locked away out of sight, but theft of content from this website will seriously anger our generous donors who have allowed their rare and valuable mostly private collections to be displayed here and will put our entire project in jeopardy,  so please contact us and let us know when we can be of help, if you have ideas about how to do this better, or if you believe that we are being in any way unfair or unreasonable,  but please don't get mad at us for only being able to let you see these wonderful images until you obtain permission for other use as we attempt to deal as best we can with technological limitations, donor restrictions, the dismal state of copyright law, some rather hairy legal requirements, and our need to pay the bills to keep this museum open (donations are requested), or because of a blog, and please don't spoil our day by sending us a rant without first reading our rants page. Point at the blue FAQ boxes for pop-up answers. Caution: Acknowledgements, links, etc. are not merchant endorsements. Only send content intended for publication. To avoid squandering scarce resources, please only send licensing requests that you are certain about or penalties may apply as the terms are ORDERS ONLY, ALL ORDERS FINAL!  If you do not intend to be legally bound by these terms and conditions, please do not access or use this website – as such browsing would violate this website's copyright. "You'll shoot your eye out." --Jean Shepherd That said, let the contract begin:

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This End User License Agreement ("CPRR.org User Agreement") grants you, personally and individually, a non-transferable, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, limited license, permitting access only for the use of immediately electronically displaying content retrieved from this website, a copyrighted publication entitled the "Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum," including but not limited to visual and documentary resources, during the term of this Agreement on a single designated computer, using a web browser with javascript enabled, in real time to no more than two people at a time for personal, private, local, non-commercial, educational viewing purposes relating to the railroad, historical, or photographic subject mater of this website only, for reference use only, subject to the limitations set forth herein, and except with our written permission, not to copy or to redistribute, in any form, including but not limited to downloads, framing or similar means, prints, or screen outputs or any part thereof, to any other persons or locations, nor in any other medium, nor make other than customary historic use, nor make use in other than an expected manner. This license authorizes no other access or use, nor any other multiple computer or multiple user arrangement. Other uses, reproduction or distribution are specifically prohibited. You agree not to store, retain, reproduce, make available, or distribute content, data, text, images, software, or files obtained from this website or from us without our permission, nor to help, facilitate, encourage, or induce others to do so without our permission. WE RESERVE TITLE TO EACH IMAGE(S), FILE(S), OR OTHER CONTENT OR MEDIA TRANSFERRED TO YOU AND REQUIRE ITS RETURN SO THAT WE WILL REGAIN POSSESSION FOLLOWING THE EXPIRATION OF THE FIXED TERM OF THE LICENSE WHICH PROVIDES ONLY LIMITED RIGHTS FOR THE EXHIBITION OR DISTRIBUTION FOR A LIMITED PURPOSE AND FOR A LIMITED PERIOD OF TIME AS SPECIFIED HEREIN OR, IF APPLICABLE, IN OUR INVOICE. Any possession of such images or other content or media not expressly authorized under this License or beyond the end of the limited fixed term is prohibited. 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Proprietary Rights: You acknowledge and agree that the Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum, any necessary software used in connection with this website ("software"), and any images, materials, data, documents, or other content provided by us that is related to the Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum, this website, or the software contain proprietary and confidential information that is protected by applicable intellectual property and other laws. You further acknowledge and agree that any content contained in the Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum or information presented to you through this website or by us is protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, patents or other proprietary rights and laws. Except as expressly authorized by CPRR.org, you agree not to modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute, or create derivative works based on the Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum, this website, its content, text, images, or the software, in whole or in part, nor use our trademarks or service marks for any purpose. You may not use any content on this website or obtained from us except in compliance with this User Agreement. The rights granted to you under this User Agreement may not be used to create, or enable the creation or redistribution of unlawful or unlicensed copies of any content on this website or obtained from us, nor to circumvent, violate, or enable the circumvention or violation of any terms of this User Agreement.

CPRR.org may have proprietary rights that are necessary for you to license in order to make use of this website, its content, and related intellectual property. We do not wish to be exposed to liability or risk of loss as a consequence of our generosity in making available historic images and other content on-line, nor to lose licensable publication rights upon which the financial viability of this project depends. Consequently, and as stated in the above preamble, if you do not intend to be legally bound by these terms and conditions, please do not access or use this website. We sincerely regret that this legal document is of necessity lengthy and complex, ask for qualified help in hopefully making it less so in the future, and invite you to submit a fully developed counteroffer that shows us how to do this better, but if you are simply unwilling to take to time to read and understand its provisions, disagree with any of its terms, or are of the belief that it is overreaching or in any way unfair or unreasonable, there are many alternative sources for transcontinental railroad historical information and you can easily avoid the provisions of this User Agreement entirely by leaving immediately and making no access to or use of this website. FAQ However if you instead choose to make use of this website, thereby accepting this User Agreement, you agree that as a consequence you shall be bound by all of its provisions and may not later argue that this agreement or any provision hereof is invalid or inoperative merely because of length or complexity, nor may you later assert, and you waive the right to argue that this User Agreement should be ignored or invalidated on the grounds that it is overreaching or in any way unfair or unreasonable, and not in limitation of the forgoing, you further agree and stipulate that this agreement or parts thereof may not be ignored or invalidated due to length, complexity, overreaching, unfairness, or unreasonableness, or the like unless such argument shall prevail generally against any contract, law, and regulation of like or greater length, complexity, overreaching, unfairness, or unreasonableness, etc. (We note in passing, by way of comparison and perspective, that this User Agreement, is less than a third the length of the text of just this website's Frequently Asked Questions pages, and constitutes less than 0.03% of this website.) We also strongly urge you to stop smoking, always buckle your seatbelt, carefully first read each prospectus and do your own research before you purchase or invest, and diversify whenever investing, understand that "past performance is not a guide to future performance and should not be used as a reason for selecting a particular investment," and control your cholesterol and blood pressure, even when reading legal documents.

"Things should be as simple as possible, but not simpler." —Albert Einstein

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You acknowledge and agree to the validity of the CPRR.org copyrights, trademarks and service marks, trade secrets, and other proprietary laws and rights both in the United States and internationally, and our claim of ownership of the intellectual property that comprises this website, its images and other content, and that CPRR.org has established significant rights and valuable good will therein. You agree not to impair the title, rights and interest of CPRR.org in such marks and other intellectual property, including but limited to images and other content, names, pseudonyms, full name(s), shortened name(s), Internet domain name(s), and the acronym(s) of this museum, website, and associated entities and author(s) thereof and their logo(s), nor our reputation or good will. 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Courts have upheld the ability of content owners to restrict access to their digital works, flatly rejecting "free speech" and "fair use" arguments: "the Court expressed confidence in 'the likelihood ... that this decision will serve notice on others ... and thus contribute to a climate of appropriate respect for intellectual property rights in an age in which the excitement of ready access to untold quantities of information has blurred in some minds the fact that taking what is not yours and not freely offered to you is stealing.'"  concluding " ... nor has an art student a valid constitutional claim to fair use of a painting by photographing it in a museum."
U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit, November 28, 2001.

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Rules from 1882 Transcontinental Railroad Timetable
Rules from 1882 Transcontinental Railroad Timetable

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