07-13-2011, 08:31 PM
It is a shame that Cat isn't a railroad. The U.P. lawyer didn't realize what they started when they came down on model railroaders until they discovered at the next annual corporation meeting that there was a huge contingent of model railroaders who owned U.P. stock and they were asking why U.P. was so short of cash that they had to make their profits from the model railroad hobby? When an overwhelming majority of the stock holders who attend your annual are totally mad at the company for doing something petty to hammer them, the corporate officers were aparrently "squirming" a bit before the meeting was over. There probably aren't so many railfans or modelers owning Cat stock.