I don’t deny your point that is has been done before, but, from what I understand, it is more legally ‘risky’ for the C&TS
itself to make money off charters with D&RGW lettered locomotives: I believe the majority of charters are conducted by FCATS or various chartering groups, not by the C&TS itself. Sure, they *Can* and do run D&RGW lettered locomotives, but it puts them on legally thin ice regarding making money off trademarks that they don’t have a license to use. Not that Union Pacific would willingly go after the PR genocide that would be suing a popular US tourist railroad, but from what a
friend of mine who works at the C&TS has told me it is not something the railroad would like to go through.
Even if ia small law is broken or rights to a trademark are infringed; a law is still broken or a right is infringed. Is that not how the law works?
I’m glad for the responses, opinions should be shared. How else will anyone formulate their own?
In the end it was just my ‘2 cents’ and input on the matter from my own knowledge, it may be right, it may be wrong. I’m sure someone out there knows the truth to the matter, I’m as ‘jazzed’ as you to find out why!
-Peyton Smith