AWESOME CP Rail COMMERCIAL!!!

A very nice commercial indeed.

interesting...but the point is one becomes a farm owner an the other an enginer and at christmas they get together.. doesn't seem like they mended any bridges cant say I liked it 100% but still like trains...

It's not prototypical!  EVERYONE KNOWS that CPRail didn't have those engines and paint scheme in 1985! 

Great commercial though!

Jon 

I liked the interior shot of the late 1950s car with the wrap-around windsheild!

there is a new GM commercial on TV now about building diesels that is well also done. Not the same as this CP commercial, but the prototype, colorful; BNSF shots and scenery are great and from the air make the trains look like our o gauge versions.

Fred Dole

Anyway you want to slice it, this is a great commercial. Thanks for posting it.

there is a new GM commercial on TV now about building diesels that is well also done. Not the same as this CP commercial, but the prototype, colorful; BNSF shots and scenery are great and from the air make the trains look like our o gauge versions.

 

Fred Dole

uh... that's a GE commercial, NOT a GM commercial. Electro-motive is now a part of catipillar.

Loved it! And to think, I just got my Lionel Canadian Pacific Grain Train Set in the mail this morning :-)

I find this particular commercial to be the usual emotionally manipulative bs typical of so many teevee spots. Must be a good ad since so many folks are diggin' it, but it ain't my cup of meat.

Pete

oh yeah, right GE.  old age cutting in. sorry about that.But its still great pix of trains, whoever made them.

fred

It's great propaganda because it strikes a chord. I could patch a vid together with some of these ( http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/atsf/atsf0016rsa.jpg  and have you swooning like a kid again.