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Union Pacific's motive to have any manufacturer aquire a license is due to quite a few things that have happened to their image.One was someone was using their logo on an internet web site,WITHOUT the permission of the UP.Secondly,there was a person who had written a slogan on a freight car the said," You can't spell UP without the word stupid in it". Then UP decided that since they have the slogan "Building America",along with the American Flag in it,they wanted to protect that trademark,and any manufacturer that wanted to produce any kind of item WITH UNION PACIFIC on it,needed to have this license to make the product or face great consequences.Example;Lionel and Athearn,which are being sued for not having a license for producing a Union Pacific product,and apparently being accused of a licensing infridgment,which is making UP uncomfortable.Further to add to this,ALL the railroads and subsideraries that had belonged to the railroads that UP aquired(SP,CNW,MP,MKT,WP),now the Union Pacific wants trademarks for these railroads,and now UP is upset,due to that they can not get any type of trademark protection for these fallen flags,because the Union Pacific HAS NOT used the former railroad logos,icons,symbols,etc,etc,etc, within the past ONE year,and according to the trademark office,a company HAS to have used that logo in that length of time in order for it to be "protected". So.........since all this garbage has been going on now , Union Pacific is upping the ante,and now wants ALL products that are manufactured,that have Union Pacific on it,and/or the fallen flags of the raillines that they aquired,the UP wants a share of the profit of that item,from the manufacturer,and alot of model train companies are dropping the Union Pacific altogether,and will not be producing any type of item ever again.This same thing happened years ago with a different railroad,and it went on for 10 years before the railroad gave up,and kept its mouth shut. That railroad was the Chesapeke and Ohio.So,thats basically the run down of the whole situation. As for Historical Societies,no railroad can claim a right to them,as they are all "non-profit ",and they are not affilliated with the railroads in any way. The other big railroads,BNSF,CSX,NS,CN,CP,KCS, I believe all they are concerned with,is just that a manufacturer has a license to make a product bearing their road,and not a profit from it.I maybe wrong on this,but if you think about it,has any other railroad been complaining lately?
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