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Non-free / fair use media rationale - non-free logo for Great Northern Railway (U.S.)
Description	This is a logo owned by BNSF Railway, successor and assigns for Great Northern Railway (U.S.).
Source	Great Northern Railway timetable of October 1960 – May 1961, published without copyright notice; collection of JGHowes
Article	Great Northern Railway (U.S.)
Portion used	The entire logo is used to convey the meaning intended and avoid tarnishing or misrepresenting the intended image.
Low resolution?	The logo is a size and resolution sufficient to maintain the quality intended by the company or organization, without being unnecessarily high resolution.
Purpose of use	The image is used to identify the organization Great Northern Railway (U.S.), a subject of public interest. The significance of the logo is to help the reader identify the organization, assure the readers that they have reached the right article containing critical commentary about the organization, and illustrate the organization's intended branding message in a way that words alone could not convey.
Replaceable?	Because it is a logo there is almost certainly no free equivalent. Any substitute that is not a derivative work would fail to convey the meaning intended, would tarnish or misrepresent its image, or would fail its purpose of identification or commentary.
Other information	Heralds are "logos" or "slogans" used by railroad companies and displayed on their equipment.

This is a logo of an organization, item, or event, and is protected by copyright and/or trademark. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, of logos for certain uses involving identification and critical commentary may qualify as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. Certain commercial use of this image may also be trademark infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Logos.

This tag must have an accompanying fair use rationale which must be unique to the usage of THIS image in each article in which it is used. You must also give the source and copyright information for all fair-use images uploaded.

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These restrictions make such symbols non-free according to the Definition of Free Cultural Works as adopted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

Therefore, per Wikipedia's non-free content policy, this image may only be displayed in the main namespace and must have an accompanying fair use rationale which must be unique to the usage of this image in each article in which it is used.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	15:12, 5 May 2008	271×267 (91 KB)	JGHowes (Talk \| contribs)
	02:48, 26 October 2003	100×100 (4 KB)	Gerard Czadowski (Talk \| contribs)	(Great Northern Herald)