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No student ya can't cause I am taking em with me to that great layout in the sky. And jet I am a boomer and been into railroading one way or another all my life from being raised in a railroad town namely Cleburne, TX to working on two different railroads for over ten years being the AT&SF and the C&NW. You guys couldn't keep up with us old timers in the ballast. :-) Just kidding, but anyway, on with my little dramatic saga here. Doing more research today, found an interesting little tidbit, to me anyway. All thes suppliers driving up prices. Then we have the UP adding that extra five bucks to all the roadnames they have absorbed. Where is it gonna all stop lol. Gotta keep smiling ya know. But low and behold it gets even worse. Now all these years, which is a lot lets just say. What do you think benifeited UP more. All that free advertising and good will they used to get from boys and girls growing up remembering their first Christmas train set was Union Pacific, or all the time and money they will waste chasing mom and pop small bussiness down to collect their small licensing fee. Which by the way, if it goes by percent judging from what I am really talking about here, may add up to a lot more than I think. Anyway, for my extra little added tidbit now. I come to find out that the reason, if no one here knows about it that you will not even find Bombardier equipment and F59PHI locomotives even listed as dicontinued in Trinity Rail Express is because the TRE flat denied Athearn to use there trademark. Pretty soon hobbiest and little kids won't have anything to play with cause the big corporations won't allow us. I am smelling something pretty stinking around here. Anyway, enough of my maniacal ranting for today. Hey, it was just a forum, then next thing ya know it was a................
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