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A couple of points: 1. What about Amtrak? All of the Walthers Amtrak stuff is a "registered trademark of the National Railroad Passenger Corperation." If you look real closely at some of the newer stuff, you can see the little registered trademark sign on the model. It really detracts for the image, if you know what I mean. 2. I like the UP and support the legislation that gives them the right to do this, but why us? The royalty would be pennies. 3. Now model companies (AHEM!...WALTHERS!) who have already upped their price on everything else because of supposed production cost increases have another excuse to charge us even more. For example, the UP centerbeam flatcar that came out about 1.5-2 years ago at $19.98. It should be noted that the centerbeam model's (all roadnames) price was upped from $12.98 around the same time. How can anybody justify paying 20 bucks for something that used to cost 13 but is still the exact same model. Keep in mind that this whole deal came up way before this trademark deal. 4. I think the issue hear is spite. Somebody somewhere in the MR industry must have done something to really, really, really, really, really tick off UP to the point where they would start doing this. Has anybody considered this?
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