Owning a GEVO
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cascaderailroad
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SP owns the copyrights to the company logo ... UP wanted to have, all UP model trainsets recalled, and taken off the hobby shop sheves, as they considered it theft of their trademark logo by model train manufacturers.
What a minute, if it's an ESPEE logo, then why do we need to ask UP for permission. If they wanna sue, then I'm gonna sue right back.
I wasn't even going to justify this thread with a reply, but seriously?? Given the money, you can buy whatever the you want, but what the h-e-double hockey sticks would you do with one? They are 73 feet long. They weigh 415,000 pounds. Surely you aren't going to put one in your backyard. Even if you were insane enough to think you could, how would you get it home? Not like you can stick it in your pocket or carry it home in one of those little plastic Wal-Mart sacks. Then you would need 73' of track in your backyard, and I'm sure your municipality or county would have something to say about the zoning. Planning on building your own rail line and siding to your house to put it there? It's not going to fit on a truck.
People actually own cabooses and I told my wife before that if I had an insane amount of disposable income (a/k/a the lottery or redneck retirement fund) that I wanted one.
A) she said no.
B) she said I was nuts.
C) she said no.
D) she said that she would leave.
E) she said no.
F) In case I didn't figure it out by now, no.
This is what is involved in a 41,000 caboose, much less a locomotive that weighs TEN TIMES that amount.
SP is UP now. UP owns everything that was SP from equipment to toilet paper to rights to trademarks and such. You figure it out.
I can't believe the amount of my life I wasted replying to this ludicrous thread.
People actually own cabooses and I told my wife before that if I had an insane amount of disposable income (a/k/a the lottery or redneck retirement fund) that I wanted one.
A) she said no.
B) she said I was nuts.
C) she said no.
D) she said that she would leave.
E) she said no.
F) In case I didn't figure it out by now, no.
This is what is involved in a 41,000 caboose, much less a locomotive that weighs TEN TIMES that amount.
SP is UP now. UP owns everything that was SP from equipment to toilet paper to rights to trademarks and such. You figure it out.
I can't believe the amount of my life I wasted replying to this ludicrous thread.
AlanBradbury
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If you had the money to afford to buy one, and the land to have enough track to place one, then you would presumably also have enough money to arrange the licensing necessary to use any livery you wanted. So yes, you could do so.
A good example of that kind of thing, is John Travolta's Boeing 707 airliner which he owns and flies, he had an arrangement with Qantas, where they paid for the expense of it being painted in their colours, on the basis that when Travolta flew it to airshows and such, it would be a good advert for Qantas. There are certainly people out there with privately owned locos, even at domestic houses, there used to be a guy who lived near me that had a BR mainline yellow and blue locomotive on the drive at the side of his semi-detached house, I can't recall which type it was, something like a Class 86 or one similar in size to that, which is about 60 feet long and weighs about 80 tons, and this was in the UK, where semi-detached houses aren't all that big.
Al
A good example of that kind of thing, is John Travolta's Boeing 707 airliner which he owns and flies, he had an arrangement with Qantas, where they paid for the expense of it being painted in their colours, on the basis that when Travolta flew it to airshows and such, it would be a good advert for Qantas. There are certainly people out there with privately owned locos, even at domestic houses, there used to be a guy who lived near me that had a BR mainline yellow and blue locomotive on the drive at the side of his semi-detached house, I can't recall which type it was, something like a Class 86 or one similar in size to that, which is about 60 feet long and weighs about 80 tons, and this was in the UK, where semi-detached houses aren't all that big.
Al
cascaderailroad
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WoW ... That was an intresting short story: http://trn.trains.com/en/Railroad Reference/Freight Railroads/2006/07/Own a caboose.aspx
Very fun to read ! Thanks !
TOTAL......$32,347
"All told, the rail journey from Fairfield, Iowa to San Diego took almost three weeks". :hehe:
First thing I'm buying with my lottery winnings, is a Whilybird ... an' a brand new John Deere tractor !
Very fun to read ! Thanks !
TOTAL......$32,347"All told, the rail journey from Fairfield, Iowa to San Diego took almost three weeks". :hehe:
First thing I'm buying with my lottery winnings, is a Whilybird ... an' a brand new John Deere tractor !
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Great article! And my answer to Kris would be: "If you have enough money, nothing is impossible!"
AlanBradbury
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Yup, just because it isn't very practical doesn't mean it is impossible, and really, the only reason you need to justify wanting such a thing, is because you like them. After all, loads of people have classic old cars - including me - and they aren't in the least bit practical compared to a modern car, but I still prefer my two door 1960 A reg Morris Minor and don't even own a modern car.
Al
Al
If you had the cash, you could get GE to put steering axles with rubber tyres on them and then you would actually be able to use it to go down the shops and buy a pint of milk and the newspaper every morning.
My EMD stays firmly on the tracks and is liveried in the original owner's livery and so far, they haven't sent me a letter about identity theft. I was thinking of getting Banksy to come and re-livery it in order to at least double the value, before arranging a cunning insurance fraud involving accelerants and a match...
My EMD stays firmly on the tracks and is liveried in the original owner's livery and so far, they haven't sent me a letter about identity theft. I was thinking of getting Banksy to come and re-livery it in order to at least double the value, before arranging a cunning insurance fraud involving accelerants and a match...
cascaderailroad
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Or you could build this:
ThomasFan101
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Or you could very well build one from scratch and drive it around Antartica. :hehe:
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Hi Everybody.
Pfx , be sensible, if the opening poster where to drive that down the shops where would he Park it. In my part of the world Somerset, he would have a ticket slapped on the buffer by one of our local traffic wardens before he could even climb down from the cab.
In any case I thought Kris94 the OP had just left college and was looking for a job. I seem to recall that in a thread a few weeks ago he was desperate for advice on how to make out a CV and the best interview techniques if he did get one. I seem to further recall that many forum members gave up their time to advise him on that
Since then in what little time I get to read and post on the forum all I seem to see when I login is him starting brain fart threads like this one. So let us ask the question “How Is the Job Hunting Going Kris 94”
Bill
posted from the 19:43 Plymouth to Bristol Temple Meads HST with the carriage air conditioning not working. I think we are doing around 120 mph with a carriage temperature to match. Well done First Great Western
Pfx , be sensible, if the opening poster where to drive that down the shops where would he Park it. In my part of the world Somerset, he would have a ticket slapped on the buffer by one of our local traffic wardens before he could even climb down from the cab.
In any case I thought Kris94 the OP had just left college and was looking for a job. I seem to recall that in a thread a few weeks ago he was desperate for advice on how to make out a CV and the best interview techniques if he did get one. I seem to further recall that many forum members gave up their time to advise him on that
Since then in what little time I get to read and post on the forum all I seem to see when I login is him starting brain fart threads like this one. So let us ask the question “How Is the Job Hunting Going Kris 94”
Bill
posted from the 19:43 Plymouth to Bristol Temple Meads HST with the carriage air conditioning not working. I think we are doing around 120 mph with a carriage temperature to match. Well done First Great Western
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First of all none of my posts are brain-farts as they are very valid and interesting points. Second it was high school I graduated from, not college. Third, the job hunt has broken down and I'm going into the military.In any case I thought Kris94 the OP had just left college and was looking for a job. I seem to recall that in a thread a few weeks ago he was desperate for advice on how to make out a CV and the best interview techniques if he did get one. I seem to further recall that many forum members gave up their time to advise him on that
Since then in what little time I get to read and post on the forum all I seem to see when I login is him starting brain fart threads like this one. So let us ask the question “How Is the Job Hunting Going Kris 94”
yea so that makes logical sense to own a locomotive when your going to be very busy in the military. Kris I really think you have not thought this out at all. There are alot of factors you need to consider before you do something like that. I would like to know one thing is how in the world you expect to pay for this? I mean the engine must cost at least over 1million US dollars maybe more depending on what your going for.
Generally I would agree with you, but experience has shown me that faith is for those without the money...