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I personally am very much opposed to UP licencing their logos. Model trains with their logo on are free advertising for them. I myself have also seen cheap plastic battery powered trains lettered for UP. How times change. There were many other cases besides Lionel's F3's where railroads paid for toy train companies to produce trains with their logos on. Marx and American Flyer also produced certain models at the request of railroad companies. I hadn't heard about CSX or BNSF wanting to do this. To me a wise decision for a railroad would be to not licence their name and then even more model trains will be produced for their company instead of their competitors who want to be licenced. <br /> <br />With the mention of UPS I'm reminded of a bad case of what can happen in these situations. In the 80's there was a small company (can't remember the name) that was just starting up that manufactured O gauge rolling stock simmilar to Lionel, MTH, K-Line, etc. that wanted to make a UPS boxcar. UPS said no, but they made one anyway. Not many ended up being produced. UPS took them to court and the company ended up closing. <br /> <br />I heard that the Model Railroad Industry Association was trying to stop this licencing from happening. I sincerely hope they'll succeed. I'll be rooting for them!
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