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Ancient Web: Don's Depot Turned a 1946 Railroad Photo Hobby Into a Web Archive

Don's Depot grew from R. Donald Ross's railroad photo collecting hobby, begun in 1946, into a huge web archive organized by railroad company with scans from his collection and contributions from other railfans.

Ancient Web: RailArchive Preserves Railroad History From the Photographer's Own Negatives

Richard Leonard's Rail Archive combines personal 1950s railroad photography with scans of historic railroad booklets, manuals, catalogs, and contributed images.

Ancient Web: Tap Lines Has Been Cataloging Southeastern Railroads Since 1996

Donald R. Hensley Jr.'s Tap Lines has spent decades preserving Southeastern railroad history, photographs, short-line research, industrial railways, and digitized reference material.

Ancient Web: RailroadSignals.us Is Preserving the Hardware Disappearing Beside the Tracks

RailroadSignals.us documents semaphore, searchlight, color-light, position-light, CPL, and other American signal systems while many of the old installations disappear from service.

Ancient Web: RailroadMichigan Built a Noncommercial Photo History of Michigan Railroads

RailroadMichigan is a hobby-built photographic archive covering current and historical railroads across Michigan and the Great Lakes region, including rosters, short lines, interurbans, equipment, and contributed images.

Ancient Web: Niagara Railfan Documented the Railways Around Niagara Falls

Niagara Railfan is an old enthusiast site built around railway photography, trackside information, and the changing rail landscape around Ontario's Niagara region.

Ancient Web: ARRT's ARRCHIVES Is a Giant Hand-Built Museum of the Long Island Rail Road

Arthur John Huneke's ARRT's ARRCHIVES documents Long Island Rail Road history through photographs, timetables, track plans, newspaper clippings, tickets, branch histories and relentless correction of tiny details.