Mike Bauers wrote:

If I own the negative, I may not own the copyright and thus it can not be posted in this group? [I have some of those]

       Right. If you know the photographer (or relatives thereof) you may be able to find out if copyright was transferred to anyone else. But if you have no knowledge of that status, I would say you are not out of the woods. If I were wishing to include such a photo in a book, I would make extensive efforts to find out the copyright status, but for an on-line posting, you may not care enough.

        But Mike is JUST about to bring down the hammer on this discussion, as it is not about freight cars per se.

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