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This is a 1943 photo from the Caltrans site, showing the Ridge Alternate down Grapevine grade. It is looking north at the curve to the left after the Fort Tejon exit; this can be confirmed by comparing the mountain in the background with about 1/5 through this Caltrans photolog file (thus about postmile 6 in Kern County).

This work is copyrighted and unlicensed. It does not fall into one of the blanket fair use categories listed at Wikipedia:Fair use#Images or Wikipedia:Fair use#Audio_clips. However, it is believed that the use of this work in the article "Ridge Route":

To illustrate the object in question
Where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information
On the English-language Wikipedia ([1]), hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation ([2]),

qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Fair use and Wikipedia:Copyrights.

To the uploader: this tag is not a sufficient claim of fair use. You must also include the source of the work, all available copyright information, and a detailed fair use rationale.

[edit] Fair use for Ridge Route

Though this image may be subject to copyright, I (NE2) feel its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

It is a photo that the California Department of Transportation has provided for free on their website.
The photo is being used to show the difference between the old two-lane Ridge Route and the four-lane Ridge Alternate. None of the old Ridge Alternate survives in this state, since most of it was incorporated into the eight-lane Interstate 5.

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(del) (cur) 00:26, 23 August 2004 . . Lucky 6.9 (Talk | contribs) . . 964×752 (299,898 bytes) (Fair use of public photos per http://www.dot.ca.gov/conditions.htm)