Photo & content credits.
We're grateful to the photographers and volunteers whose work helps tell the story of the Virginian Railway. Reused images are credited below with their licenses.
Museum interior & collection photographs
Many of the collection photographs on this site — the caboose interior, the track velocipede, signal lanterns and lamps, the station agent's desk, the model railroad and gallery views — were photographed by Wikimedia Commons contributor Dsdugan at the Princeton Railroad Museum.
These images are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0). You are free to share and adapt them, including commercially, as long as you give appropriate credit and share any adaptations under the same license.
Junior Conductor page — hero photograph
The vintage banner on the Junior Conductor page — children riding a miniature train, c.1920s — is “Miniature train and elephant rides at the Adelaide Zoo c1920s” by the South Australian History Network, shared via Flickr and marked CC0 1.0 (Public Domain Dedication). No rights reserved; used here with thanks.
The Virginian Story tour — train-order hoop photograph
“Isleta order hoops” shows a conductor on a passing Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe freight train picking up a train order at Isleta, New Mexico, in March 1943. Photograph by Jack Delano for the U.S. Office of War Information; Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, digital ID fsa.8d27114.
License: Public domain — U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information photograph (PD-USGov-FSA/OWI). Attribution is not legally required, but the museum credits Jack Delano, the Office of War Information, and the Library of Congress. Retrieved from Wikimedia Commons on August 8, 2026.
Stay & Explore — Mercer County photographs
The scenic hero and the Bramwell, Brush Creek Falls, Princeton arts, and Hatfield–McCoy trail photographs on Stay & Explore were provided in the official Mercer County Convention & Visitors Bureau media kit.
The kit describes its downloadable gallery as photographs available to “use and share.” They are used here for Mercer County visitor promotion with visible CVB attribution. That permission is not represented as a Creative Commons or public-domain license; contact Visit Mercer County before reusing the files elsewhere.
Museum-owned material
Logos, event photos, artifact descriptions and other original content are the Princeton Railroad Museum unless otherwise noted, and may not be reused without permission.
Volunteer & technical stewardship
With deep gratitude to Sam Franz for more than a decade of dedicated IT and systems stewardship of the Princeton Railroad Museum — and for his continued support keeping the museum's technology, records and this website running reliably for staff and visitors alike.
Corrections
If you believe an image is miscredited or should be removed, please contact the museum and we'll address it promptly.