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Lets face facts, when corporate America smells money they don't care who gets hurt as long as it puts cash in their pockets. We all need to remember that railroads are run by buisness types now days and not railroad people. The railroads past probably means little or nothing to these people unless they see a way to make a buck, hence licensing fees, the higher the better as far as they are concerend. Stock holders are also driven by money and want as much cash as they can grab. You and I and model railroad manufacturers are just another easy target for their insatiable greed. If a thing like this takes off other railroads could do the same thing as U.P. and so could locomotive manufacturers, auto companys, trucking companys etc. Anything used by hobbyists be they model railroaders, model ship builders, car modelers etc. etc. could be affected by such insensitive money harvesting. We as model railroaders have only three choices: we can pay U.P.s ransom, or we can model a railroad not under U.P.s control or we can freelance our railroads. And don't forget, U.P. also owns the rights to some narrow gauge railroads of the distant past. It seems to me that most garden railroaders do NOT model any certain railroad and could quite easily stop buying anything having to do with U.P. The real problems will be in the small scales where a lot of people DO model a given prototype. This whole thing could backfire in U.P.s face the way it did when Chevrolet walked into a N.M.R.A. national convention and demanded that all sales of unlicensed Chevrolet models stop at once. The way I understand things people all over the country stopped buying Chevrolets in protest, costing General Motors far more money than they would have gotten from any royalties. If you own any stock in the U.P. write a letter telling them how you feel about this. Even if you don't have stock, write a letter anyway. OLD DAD
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