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 Posted - May 23 2021 : 07:22:03 AM
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Tyco's Delaware & Hudson RR Alco "Super" C630, a $5 train store find, runs after some contact wheel cleaning and lube.
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Posted - May 23 2021 : 11:18:24 AM
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had a chance to get that for $10 at the train show but I missed it
Anyway a fake loco that I got from the Cheyenne Depot Museum gift shop 
only the 1st 3 letters is my birth name 
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Posted - May 24 2021 : 04:05:31 AM
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quote: Looks like a lawsuit waiting to happen from whoever owns Rio Grande today.
-Steve
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Posted - May 24 2021 : 10:57:41 AM
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quote:Looks like a lawsuit waiting to happen from whoever owns Rio Grande today.
Originally posted by kovacste000Â -Â May 24 2021Â :Â 04:05:31 AM
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that would be Union Pacific
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Posted - May 24 2021 : 12:49:27 PM
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quote:
quote:Looks like a lawsuit waiting to happen from whoever owns Rio Grande today.
Originally posted by kovacste000Â -Â May 24 2021Â :Â 04:05:31 AM
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that would be Union Pacific
Originally posted by microbusss - May 24 2021 : 10:57:41 AM
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Ah, I figured. I was thinking it was either them or BNSF.
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Posted - May 25 2021 : 2:28:45 PM
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quote: quote:
quote:Looks like a lawsuit waiting to happen from whoever owns Rio Grande today.
Originally posted by kovacste000Â -Â May 24 2021Â :Â 04:05:31 AM
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that would be Union Pacific
Originally posted by microbusss - May 24 2021 : 10:57:41 AM
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Ah, I figured. I was thinking it was either them or BNSF.
Originally posted by kovacste000Â -Â May 24 2021Â :Â 12:49:27 PM
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When UP merged with SP they got D&RG too
a D&RG Heritage Loco is part of the group
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Posted - May 25 2021 : 4:54:16 PM
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Uncle Pete is pretty particular about trademarks, as a company, but I don't think that the mere presence of speed lettering is enough to violate a trademark. I do know that you need permission to make a model in their paint scheme and lettering. I expect that the same would be true of the trademarks of fallen flags assimilated into the Yellow Borg. At one time they wanted to charge a license fee, but MTH dissuaded them from doing that in some sort of lawsuit that benefitted everyone and not just MTH.
The UP was doing this in the name of good will or public relations. Personally, I think it was poor P.R. for a billion dollar behemoth to be exacting a few bucks of tribute from some little company that was, in fact, giving them free advertising. Maybe with MTH's help, they've figured that out, too.
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Posted - May 25 2021 : 8:01:14 PM
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quote:Uncle Pete is pretty particular about trademarks, as a company, but I don't think that the mere presence of speed lettering is enough to violate a trademark. I do know that you need permission to make a model in their paint scheme and lettering. I expect that the same would be true of the trademarks of fallen flags assimilated into the Yellow Borg. At one time they wanted to charge a license fee, but MTH dissuaded them from doing that in some sort of lawsuit that benefitted everyone and not just MTH.
The UP was doing this in the name of good will or public relations. Personally, I think it was poor P.R. for a billion dollar behemoth to be exacting a few bucks of tribute from some little company that was, in fact, giving them free advertising. Maybe with MTH's help, they've figured that out, too.
Originally posted by scsshaggy - May 25 2021 : 4:54:16 PM
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how about Wheeling & Lake Erie RR's Rio Grande inspired scheme & lettering?
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Posted - May 27 2021 : 6:58:21 PM
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Bachmann Mogul, that I settled on new, rather than taking my chances on used. Didn't pay too
much for it, and during the break in it runs quietly and smoothly, but the tender does not like
reverse and derails a bit.
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