Rich,I agree with you,I miss the Rock Island,Milwaukee Road,my favorite railroad,Chicago and Northwestern,MKT,Missouri Pacific just to name a few.
Nice model, Scott, but I'd have preferred one painted like this myself... Oh, and thanks for your contributions at the Hickory, N.C. train show... it was really great seeing your models on the Central Carolina N Scalers layout!!!
UP does not own the rights to the Rock Island. The Rock was liquidated in bankruptcy. UP passed on the chance to merge with them when they could have.
UP only took the lines it could use, the rest was useless to them. But about these rights: nobody owns the rights because there is no legal successor of the Rock? So, anyone could use their paintschemes on their locos? Maybe a nice feature for the Iowa Interstate?
"So, anyone could use their paintschemes on their locos? Maybe a nice feature for the Iowa Interstate?" Paint schemes, unlike heralds and lettering fonts, typically were not copyrighted. And if you go back through what schemes were used for various lines' early diesels you would be surprised to see just how many schemes were copy-cats of someone else's scheme.
The Milwaukee Road passenger service (dont know which train) looked very simular to the UP passenger trains.....almost identical Diesel of course.
"The Milwaukee Road passenger service (dont know which train) looked very simular to the UP passenger trains.....almost identical Diesel of course." That was because MILW replaced C&NW around 1956 as the UP's connection into Chicago. The MILW cars were painted to match UP equipment (just as some C&NW, SP and Wabash cars were) so that the equipment would create a matched trainset. This sort of arrangement was quite common among railroads where interline cars were involved.
