2 New UP Commercial's

WRAWROACX,

        Thanks for posting. If the first two do not make you a UP fan nothing will!

        The CP commercial was also great.

JohnB

Uncle Pete...FTW !

I was quite surprised when I saw the "Our Salute" UP commercial on the local 9:00 p.m. news last night.  It's not where the railroads usually advertise.

Rusty

Very nice.

Thanks for posting these. The CP Rail commercial was also a good one.

I really liked the Norfolk Southern What's your function commercial that was a play on Conjunction Junction.

Nice.  I liked the brothers one best.

Norfolk Southern's latest commercial.  Less artsy and more business-like:

Rusty

The UP ads are shot in and around the Columbia River Gorge and Mt. Hood in Oregon.  Its a nice ad campaign.  I like the Norfolk Southern ads too. 

UP has come a long way...

It's just great that UP and NS are putting railroading in front of the public with creative advertising.  CSX and BNSF - what's your function? 

For really patriotic railroad advertising check out the full page weekly PRR ads in Life magazine during WWII.  At the base of each ad they listed the number of former PRR employees serving on active duty and the count of those making the ultimate sacrifice.  Both counts rose rapidly to large numbers.

Ed Rappe

very good thanks

I kind of thought that was the Columbia River area, was up there a week ago, a lot of train action for both UP and BNSF along the river

And some of those hairstyles/wigs in that 1970's commercial are PAINFUL

Interesting, the engine in the old UP commercial was made as a Atlas HO model. Was it because it was in the commercial or did it have other significance?

I have a hard time saying which I favor more. I enjoy all of the NS commercials because they have a certain style. The new UP commercials have that special look at me....

Well done TV commercials for the railroads.

Love all three ads!  I'm a flag waver and they really appeal to me.

Art

On that note, my first reaction when I saw the engines in the ad  was "Wow they actually found a unit where the flag wasn't peeling, covered in soot or half missing".

If the UP is going to run the flags, they do need to make an effort to ensure they look decent or when damaged the decal is removed until it can be replaced.

They only run the dirty ones east of Chicago.  The ones around Omaha and out west are pristine.  No wait, maybe that's just the ones used in the commercial are clean and like new.

Art

I like all the ads seems railroads are trying to be moreout front.Csx has some slick ads to.I wonder will fec and bnsf get into the act.

Yeah its a busy train corridor for BNSF and UP.  If you drive both east and west on both sides of the Columbia River (Oregon I-84 and Washington SR-14) you get four different views and perspectives of the scenery and railroads (up close and personal).  The Washington side is more scenic and slower paced with lots of turnouts to stop and take pictures or enjoy the view (and there are wineries).  Besides the California coast, my most epic drives have been through that area on a summer evening with a fat stogie.