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This issue is old. Extortion is illegal. Enforcing one's legal copyright is not. And, no, charging manufacturers for the logos they use (and make moeny from) will not destroy the model railroad business any more than NASCAR charging for their logos to be placed on toy and model cars will destroy the toy and model car business. Model makers who sell items with UP's logo are making money from UP's design. It is onlyl fair that they give UP some of that money. They can either raise their price an equal amount or accept a smaller profit. Tell you what, print up some nice T-shirts with the "Model Railroader" logo and sell them. See how long it takes Kalmbach to come after you and demand either a cut of the revenue or that you stop selling the T-shirts. No, you are not "advertising" for UP. No one will go into your basement and see a model of a UP locomotive and decide to ship UP because of that. Paying for the use of a copyrighted logo is part of the cost of doing business and model train manufacturers got away without doing so (like everyone else does) for a very long time. The law is the law.
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