Coca Cola Commerical with NKP 765....

Great commercial! The way life should be!

...keep the rails polished...

This was a feature done last year by the folks doing the NKP 765 videos.  Kelly Lynch, who I had the chance to work with, did this.  Extremely well done.  Kelly is very talented.  This was more of a "what could be done" rather than having any real advertising value.  It was all done just for "fun".

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this somewhat of a re-make of an old printed Coca-Cola newspaper/magazine ad from the 30's-40's??  I seem to recall one of their ads from that era featuring a steamer, engineer, young lad....something of that sort.

Any Coke aficionados out there to clarify?

KD

Yes.  The last shot is the ad.

With 61,000 views on you tube there is some commercial value there for coke. glad some and hope more enjoy this

One of the best commercial videos involving a train that I have ever seen. Saw it last year and it was good to see it again.

Thanks for the post.

Good to see that this video is still getting some attention.  I had hoped that Coca Cola would take notice and play it in movie theaters before the previews of coming attractions.  The ones they do play in theaters have been rather lame or tired and played out (the polar bear ads), IMHO.

Andy

I really enjoyed it....

We liked it!  The Coke commercial has a "Fied of Dreams, build it and they will come" feel.  

Best commercial for any product in a long time. Thank you for bringing it back.

Thanks for posting,  I really enjoyed that.

Ron

If you purchase the DVD listen for the whistle you get the coke commercial, and you get to support the 765!

I was not involved in the shooting of this spot. This was done in late at night and into the wee hours of the morning on a Friday night-Saturday morning. I was assigned to run an excursion the next morning, so I was sound asleep when all this was going on!

The man who portrays the "engineer" in the commercial is an actor. He did not run the engine. Andy Enyart ran the 765 for the scenes where the engine is moving.

Why Coca Cola has not made better use of this spot is surprising. Perhaps it is the length, but I am sure it could be edited and still capture the magic of the great 765 and the Coke product. 

It does not necessarily take a train person to appreciate it.

Wonderfully done! I agree wish that it would be "main streamed". Nice little break at work watching it.

Modern coke bottles... man. Any Coke fan would immediately notice that.

Too bad parts were not used for a Coke commercial.  It would rank right up there with some of the Budweiser/Clydesdale adds. 

My new favorite can be seen here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eubWYPhcEEo

"Other than featuring Coke it has nothing to do with the company."

Thanks Marty for the clarification. I would be first in line selling this to the Coke ad people.

appreciate the responses so far. This would make a nice commercial in the movie theaters where they have you captive and drill you with 20 trailers of upcomming movies. Might be a REFRESHING break

Steve

I love it!

Unfortunately large corporations make attempts to please everyone all the time. CocaCola probably examined every millisecond of the video and determined the PC crowd would raise a fit over the mother pouring the coke down her kids throat at 2:02 into the video. Otherwise we may have seen this during the Super Bowl last year.

Again this had nothing to do with Coke the corporation. It was a project by Kelly Lynch's production company. For all we know the folks at Coke don't even know it exists. Doubtful but possible. 

Sure are a lot of happy people in that town. Look at all of the teeth! 

I know right?  It's not like they are rolling in with the latest delivery of trains. It's only Coke. 

That was cool---never saw it before

Thanks for posting  

Hey Train Collector, your right about this Coca-Cola commercial. This commercial with the 765 reminds me of AMAZING STORIES: Ghost Train aired Sept 29th, 2014, if anybody ever saw it. I believe the sight DailyMotion has an upload of the whole episode, but here the info, not the video, of the episode. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0511096/   

Also for commercials, don't forget these 3 commercials below.

It sort of reminds me of the commercial Coke did some years back with Mean Joe Greene of Pittsburgh Steelers fame and a kid.  The kid offers Joe his Coke and Joe gives him his jersey, and they exchange as moment together, with a smile, and the World is Good again.

Well, it appears to take place during the WW2 era, and Coke would have been tough to find in some places. So yeah, people might have been smiling in such a case, in all fairness.