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Non-free / fair use media rationale for Royal Blue (B&O train)
Description	The final run of the Royal Blue departing Jersey City, New Jersey, for Washington, D.C., on the morning of Saturday, April 26, 1958, with the Manhattan skyline in the background.
Source	Photo by Don Wood, reprinted in Trains magazine, August, 1958. © Kalmbach Publishing Co., 1958
Article	Royal Blue (B&O train)
Portion used	cropped by User:JGHowes
Low resolution?	Yes. This image is a greatly reduced, low-resolution version. .
Purpose of use	It is believed that this low-resolution version depicting a unique historic event — the final run of B&O's famous Royal Blue train — is permissible Fair Use solely for the Wikipedia article about the Royal Blue because: it portrays a historically significant event, i.e., the end of all rail passenger service on a line started in the 1890s; as a greatly reduced, low-resolution version, this image is non-reproducible for commercial purposes. use of this low-resolution version does not diminish the value of the original media to the copyright holder nor interfere with the media's original purpose, nor will it dilute the importance or recognition of this image in connection with the copyright-holder. it meets all criteria in WP:NFCC.
Replaceable?	Not replaceable. It is a unique, non-reproducible historic event and no free alternatives are known to exist or can be created, as the train is no longer in operation.

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The image is low resolution and of no larger and of no higher quality than is necessary for the illustration of an article, and the use of the image on Wikipedia is not expected to decrease the value of the copyright,
on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Other use of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Fair use for more information.

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