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[arizonachris]

Angels Stadium! Nice attention to important landmarks.

Yeah, but no big A with the halo around the top. Maybe a licensing issue?

[buzz456]

Angels Stadium! Nice attention to important landmarks.

Yeah, but no big A with the halo around the top. Maybe a licensing issue?

Once again that makes no sense to me. It is a public landmark and the sign is there. Why would it need to be licensed? If you took a photo, blew it up and went to sell it at a art show, you are trying to tell me that you would have to pay a license fee to the Angels? I think not.

[dejoh]

Sounds like their (RW) deathly afraid of the potential lawsuits that might pop up 6 months to a year from now from copy write infringements

[1225fan5358]

Sounds like their (RW) deathly afraid of the potential lawsuits that might pop up 6 months to a year from now from copy write infringements

Or even some trademark issues.

[GSkid]

Nope the Post Office is a private company, just like the Federal Reserve. So yeah they're open

Actually they are more like a pseudo/hybrid private company. They have to adhere to some rules and regulations like a government agency that private companies don't have to. Think of them as 2 parts private, 1 part governmental.


Looking forward to this route. This route is near where Hack lives, so I expect a fairly credible review of it's general scenery accuracy from him once it's released. I was born and raised in California, but have never been south of Dana Point. Just have never gotten around to heading down to San Diego.

[imphantum]

Did ATSF or SP use this line back in the day? I'm gonna say ATSF but I think there were parts that SP used too...

[BNSFdude]

ATSF. SP crosses in quite a few spots though.

[arizonachris]

Been from LA to San Diego and back many a time but was at least 20 years ago. They had the older tin can style cars not these Super Double Decker cars like today. I couldn't tell you what the engines were. I used to point and laugh at the cars stuck in traffic on the nearby 5 freeway. "Losers"!! A bunch of us would go down to SD for the weekend, go to Sea World, take the Red Car to the border, go to the Navy shipyard, tour the ships, stopped at every bar we could find. Those were the days, less than $70 round trip. Can't touch that now.

[1225fan5358]

Been from LA to San Diego and back many a time but was at least 20 years ago. They had the older tin can style cars not these Super Double Decker cars like today. I couldn't tell you what the engines were. I used to point and laugh at the cars stuck in traffic on the nearby 5 freeway. "Losers"!! A bunch of us would go down to SD for the weekend, go to Sea World, take the Red Car to the border, go to the Navy shipyard, tour the ships, stopped at every bar we could find. Those were the days, less than $70 round trip. Can't touch that now.

San Diegan with an F40 or P32-BWH, P42s were rare until the F59PHIs came about. And 4-8 Amfleets. Those really were "the days." Even though I'm not that old almost anything is better than trying to railfan post-9/11. The route has quite a bit of Santa Fe in it still today...surprisingly. And when it comes to travel security..."I just caught a terrorist!" Said no TSA agent or railroad employee ever. Yes, having been on the 5 freeway I know that traffic is a you know what. 90mph behind a F59PHI sounds better to me :)

[jmslakings]

I really never liked the Amfleet passenger car's. I thought the window's where always too small. It would feel like I was in an airplane or in some underwater vehicle. If you wanted to see something outside you couldn't unless you had the "window seat"

[Darpor]

If you took a photo, blew it up and went to sell it at a art show, you are trying to tell me that you would have to pay a license fee to the Angels? I think not.

I agree, in that they probably wouldn't bother pursuing it. But the fact is, they could, and the same would apply here. The logo is under copyright.

It's no different than having a branch of McDonalds or a Wal-Mart superstore in game, and I'm sure nobody would seriously expect that?

[buzz456]

If you took a photo, blew it up and went to sell it at a art show, you are trying to tell me that you would have to pay a license fee to the Angels? I think not.

I agree, in that they probably wouldn't bother pursuing it. But the fact is, they could, and the same would apply here. The logo is under copyright.

It's no different than having a branch of McDonalds or a Wal-Mart superstore in game, and I'm sure nobody would seriously expect that?

We are getting pretty far afield here however:Pictures of copyrighted buildings are not considered derivative works, unless the country it is photographed in does not have freedom of panorama provisions (such as France or Italy). In United States copyright law though, "The copyright in an architectural work that has been constructed does not prevent the making, distributing, or public display of pictures, paintings, photographs, or other pictorial representations of the work – but only if the building in which the work is embodied is located in or ordinarily visible from a public place

[Darpor]

I'm not talking about the building though, I thought the subject was the 'A' which was part of the logo, which is under copyright.

[imphantum]

Some exclusive screens from the newsletter;

losangelesunionstation.jpg

sanjuancapistranostation.jpg

sanclementepier.jpg

skylineatnight.jpg

sandiegostation.jpg

One of the thumbnails also showed a rear car with ditchlights and headlights, so I'm guessing this confirms cab cars?

[dejoh]

Kinda doing the route backwards, but pretty good idea of the upcoming route.
They better have industrial switching and yard work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eLlP8U-b7w