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I think you guys are angry at the wrong corporation. You need to channel your collective energy and blast the model railroad manufacturers that are taking advantage of all the hype and misinformation flying around about the UP. Remember all the stuff a few years back about CSX, the Chessie logo etc. Same crappola. If your LHS has placed a surcharge on UP labeled items and it is not an increased price from the manufacturer, tell them they will lose your business if that gouging practice continues. Most modelers are vocal about this stuff, and should be. Speak up now, or forever open the door for other attempts from both manufacturers and (probably only a few) LHSs at reaching a little deeper into our poskets. Can't wait for Horizon to come out w/ a surcharge on UP 'blue box' stuff. Imagine a $30. UP 40' box car tooled in the '50s and used to sell for less than $1.99 retail ! I'm sure the UP ambulance chasers are charging more per hour than a Lionel Veranda for their legal services to implement this program. Perhaps they have convinced the men in suits at UP that it will be necessary for them to amortize the costs of this "program" over the couple hundred thousand UP things sold over the next year or so. UP is a very proud 100+ year old company and this is probably an attempt at shoring up their company's image and protecting the integrity of anything UP. Personnaly, I think it has been a rather anal (okay to say that here?) corporate decision on UP's part, but I don't think the pennies per item that will be added is worth all the fuss, if that's all it will cost us, anymore than UP men in suits are concerned as to whether or not modelers decide to model BNSF instead of UP out of anger. Wonder if UP will insist that Athearn finally correct the too wide hood on its GP7, if Horizon expects to still paint them in UP colors? BILL
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