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[edit] Welcome!

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[edit] Re: Union Station (Springfield)

The Original Barnstar
Thanks for your hard work. Your double image of the stair rail and the IC logo is superb. Bigturtle 01:18, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Missouri Pacific Railroad

Hi Bill, I noticed your removing the hyphen from the Missouri Pacific Railroad entries on the List of Registered Historic Places in Arkansas. I am sure you a correct on the current name of the railrod. However, I am curious, was the hyphen ever part of the name? Since the NRHP listings are always in the orginal name of the structure, if historically the name had the hyphen, then the corresponding NRHP listing would have it also. Dsmdgold 13:56, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Missouri Pacific Railroad (no hyphen) is the correct name from 1916 until the railroad was merged into Union Pacific in the mid-1980s. From the time the company was first incorporated until 1916, the correct name form was Missouri Pacific Railway (no hyphen). The hyphen is a typographical error by the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, the entity which prepared the National Register nominations in question. The hyphenated name is not supported by any historical data or primary source material. I mentioned Interstate Commerce Commission dockets and reports because these were considered legal documents where the corporate name was expected to be exactly correct - including such minor details as hyphens, railroad vs. railway, or whether "the" was actually a part of the corporate name. Thanks for raising this question, because the NRHP naming convention is to use the original name of the structure, but in these Missouri Pacific depot naming cases, the hyphen typo unfortunately slipped through.RI-Bill 16:36, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Springfield-RR.jpg to infobox

Would you mind if I moved that image to the Springfield, Illinois (Amtrak station) infobox? Or do you have some other image that you think might be better suited? ---- DanTD 22:51, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

If there is some good reason for moving it, I have no problem with you moving the image. I tend to avoid images in infoboxes because I dislike the postage stamp size display which results on the page.RI-Bill 15:12, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
Following up on my earlier comment, my main objection was concern over the need to reduce the image size substantially. I have since seen a few images in infoboxes which are approximately the same size as the current Springfield image -- if size reduction isn't necessary, moving the image to the infobox might present a cleaner page appearance.RI-Bill 04:13, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Lone Star - Texarkana Union Station

So there was no transition between the Cotton Belt-era & Amtrak routes? ----DanTD (talk) 15:08, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Correct. The Cotton Belt service ended in 1959 and Amtrak began using the Lone Star name in May 1974, after Santa Fe withdrew their permission to use the Chief names. Other than the common name, there is no overlap or relationship between the routes, unless you count terminal trackage within Dallas Union Terminal, which was the only station served by both the Cotton Belt and Amtrak Lone Star trains.RI-Bill (talk) 02:34, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
Hmmm, if there's no article on the Cotton Belt Lone Star line, maybe you should write it, or at least extend the info about it on it to the Amtrak line. ----DanTD (talk) 02:58, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:LAlogo.jpg

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I question the need and validity of tagging this logo. However, assuming that the tagging is valid, I have completed and inserted a fair use rationale template which should address all concerns.RI-Bill (talk) 02:51, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Marshall (Amtrak station)

That was from Amtrak itself. The online map they provided indicated that the Thruway Motorcoach service does stop at Marshall. ----DanTD (talk) 17:32, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Ah, crap. They should've made that clearer then. It probably wouldn't be such a bad idea for Marshall to be one of the stops along this route though. ----DanTD (talk) 16:34, 6 January 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:PNW-logo.jpg

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I question the need and validity of tagging this logo. However, assuming that the tagging is valid, I have completed and inserted a fair use rationale template which should address all concerns.RI-Bill (talk) 01:42, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome

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