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While Amtrak and CSX have licencing policies, niether of those corporations have taken measures that openly hinder and disrupt free and unfettered model building. From my reasearch on this topic CSX only asks model companies that they obtain the railroads formal permission before using their logo on models. And Amtrak, while it does charge a surcharge, It is minimal and from what I can tell is applicible to Amtrak proprietary items. I.E. It gets tacked on to the Superliners, but the Budd Cars were used by many other railroads and thus it is not charged on them. Another big difference between CSX and Amtrak vs Union Pacific, their licencing policies have been in place since the start of the corporation. Union Pacific on the other hand has had well over 140 years to put a trademark licencing policy together and nearly 70 to impliment it in the model train field. (Lionel's "M-10000" of 1937 is the first Identifyable Union Pacific Model train) Union Pacific has also in their suit demanded that they be given ownership of tooling. This goes from a mere trademark battle to direct interfearence in this hobby. I am sorry to inform the Union Pacific railroad, they are not the only railroads to have owned SD70Ms (Normal or flaired Radiators) AC4400s SD45s SD40-2s, and I digress. If anyone should have a gripe about the tooling, it should be EMD. Yet if recent history has followd pattern, the F-59s SD70ms and such were developed with the full co-operation of EMD. As in Athearn's Heyday the relationship between EMD and Athearn was such that when EMD knew they were going to be building a new locomotive, Athearn would be one of the first people informed and blue prints of the new locomotive sent so that development on tooling can begin. So to close this is how I view the situation at this time. Union Pacific can kiss mine, and for my Union Pacific models, Have Airbrush, will paint. James
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