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NEW SITE DESIGN
Posted Wednesday, March 1 2006
We started RailARC with the intent of making it the largest railroad photo database on the web, primarily for research and historical purposes. Our primary intent was to capture as many of the current pieces of rail equipment roaming the rails now so as to create a free, unencumbered, and accessible record for the future. While we have contributed the vast majority of photos ourselves with several other contributors, the system has been very labor intensive. As a result, the breadth of the archive is mostly limited to our travels. Also, due to other projects and commitments, we have been unable to update the site as often as we would like. Luckily, it mostly runs itself, but was still in need of a serious overhaul.

Our hope with this overhaul is to update the site to more modern web standard and create a system by which outside contributions can eventually be made more easily, enabling the archive to grow more rapidly and wider in scope, following its original intent. Along those same lines, we have also replaced the RailARC license agreement with a Creative Commons license.

As mentioned above, the photos in RailARC are meant to be informational, historical, and in some cases artistic in content. We welcome your contributions and encourage you to also support the other rail photo databases on the web. It is through all our efforts that an exhaustive record of this time in rail history will be preserved. - MDP