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This is one of these situations , where you just have to ask: " What the [censored] are they thinking???" U.P. can't even run its RAILROAD correctly at this point in time, and yet they want to quibble over what is probably the equivalent of nickles and dimes in the grand scheme of things. Oh and CSX isn't just following suit...they actually were the FIRST to try this, back in the '80s, but there was such an outcry over the way they wanted it implemented, that they backed off. Although I DO defend the right of UP to DEFEND their trademarks, this smacks of nothing more than Corporate Greed, and legalized extortion, espescially for roads that UP absorbed, and that Athearn and Lionel probably produced at no cost previously. That UP would do this, on the edge of another service meltdown, shows that someone at the top of the Corporate ladder there has their priorities SERIOUSLY out of whack, and may hint that there are things seriously wrong at UP.
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