SD70ACe in Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad paint!

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I believe Union Pacific should have given this unit and the other heritage units the full paint scheme like Norfolk Southern did with their GP59.
http://www.nslocos.com/ns4610.html This paint sheme might have been more interesting. http://trainiax.0catch.com/mktsd40-2627.gif

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I was wondering how long it'd take for this to start...

If you read the Morning Sun Color Guides series for UP, the Company used to have the traditional "Overland Route" shield on a few cars at all times. This was to protect the Company's use of the trademark.

With all the hoopla over modelmakers and the trademark infringement program, UP is now painting some of their units in historic paint schemes ... so that they are protecting the heritage of the various predecessor roads trademarks.

That's my bet.

John Perkowski

Mr. Perkowski,
That is prorably why to protect trademarks.

I don't like the fact that the UP is a stingy SOB for use of trademarks, but its a silver lining to the cloud to see their heritage locos. My question is, will the SP heritage unit be clean, will it have painted on grime like a weathered model loco, or will they just not wash it? Only SP builders photos and the 4449 are clean.

What company isnt "stingy for the use of there trademark"? Thats what a trademark is dude. Reporting marks, they bought it, now its theres. Can you blame them?

I understand a company wants to protect use of their trademark. But a trademark is what's legally called a "source indicator". What this means is, people see the trademark or service mark and it indicates to them which company is providing the product/service. In other words, it eliminates confusion as to who provided the product/service. At a railroad, it is used to differentiate BN from UP. But on a toy train or t-shirt, there's no question if UP made the toy train - UP has never made a toy train and never will. There's no confusion as to the source of the toy train - it is not UP. Same thing happens with Toy cars - there's no confusion that Chrysler built a toy car. Finally, there's the issue of deception - no toy train maker is trying to convince us that UP built those toy trains at the back shop in Cheyenne next to 3985. That's why I use the phrase stingy rather than the word protective - I think UP lawyers are going overboard.

This could get interesting. So do they plan to do resto paint jobs from every rail line they purchased thru the years? I always had a weak spot for the MOP blue with the white eagle on the side..Would like to see that scheme again..SO i guess the same for the SP, D&RGW, CNW, Cotton Belt? I would also like to see BNSF do something like this.

They do plan on "honoring" all the railroads that fell to UP.

Hi espee;

I agree. They should do heritage units to all that fell to the UP. My two personal favorites being the SP and DRGW.

The S.P. Caboose, those are some good choices that you picked. My favorites are the SP, DRGW and CNW.

Since I am also a SP & DRGW fan, I can hardly wait to see how those paint schemes will turn out. I just can't imagine an SD70 in Grande Gold paint

1988, along with 1982 and 4141 seem to have been staying in Texas recently. I wonder where 1983 is as that seems to have the best chance of coming to Illinois. I can't wait to see what a SD70ACe will lok like in CNW colors.