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WOW, As announced yesterday on CBS news by Dan Rather, Union Pacific is thinking they should receive a commission on the use/sale of their name, color scheme and the names and color schemes of their merger partners on all model railroad/toy train pieces of equipment! This means an additional cost would be added by the manufacture to every item they sell which has Union Pacific and all U.P. merger partners. This includes to my limited knowledge; Union Pacific, Southern Pacific, Cotton belt, C&NW, D&RGW, Western Pacific, etc., etc. Are you O.K. with this? Personally, I feel you should receive something, when you pay for something. What will you get by paying a commission to U.P.? If anything, U.P. should be flattered by the fact people build models of their RR. These modelers are advertising for the Union Pacific and probably should be receiving a commission for their hard work! Also, if the use of their (U.P.’s) name by model railroaders has been a sore point, why has it taken 100 years of model railroading for them to make this an issue? Why didn’t the U.P. folks back in the classic toy train era feel they deserved a commission? This idea is extremely ill conceived and (I feel) very bad publicity for the UNION PACIFIC!
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