DHL Commercial

Trains Magazine General Discussion
1

There is this one TV commercial where two trucks, one from US Postal and one from UPS stop at a grade crossing. They see a flat car freight come by with DHL trucks riding on them. I saw the locomotives for a very shoprt time. They appeared to be green lettered GP30 EMD Demos. Has anyone else seen this commercial? They don’t show much anymore. In fact, probebly is has gone off the air.

2

I’ve seen the comercial. It was made on the FIllmore & Western in Southern California.

LC

3

There are 2 other Topics on this comercial somewhere on this forum… if you can ever find them.

4

The GP30 is a former Arizona and California Railway locomotive. I was in Fillmore last month and it was still there then. I am guessing Fillmore & Western bought it. F&W’s has a GP35 (3502) that I suspect is also an ex-AZCR. Replace the white with orange and green with black and you have the paint scheme of the GP35. They also have a switcher in SP tiger stripe and two F7As, one still in LIRR paint (markings removed) and one painted silver with and orange stripe, not close to the WP’s CZ paint scheme.

http://www.fwry.com/

5

I was in Fillmore in January '04; the GP30 is #3004

6

Funny both UPS And USPS both use rail… and now DHL…so whats the point

7

I cant remember where I heard this, but I’ve also heard that FedEx makes some, very limited use, of rail. If this is true, they’re probably using unmarked trailers. Has anyone else ever heard anything about this?

8

There you go!

Brown it is!

What can brown do for you?

9

I interperted the commercial as a train delivering new trucks to a DHL terminal. Trucks of the size on the train would not normally be rail shipped when in merchandise service. I would expect a tractor trailer on a train hauling the DHL packages such as we see with UPS. It has been awhile since I saw the commercial, but I thought it was a UPS and a FedEx truck waiting on the train. Correct me if my vision or memory is failing-AGAIN.

10

FedEx does use rail- I saw a TOFC in Porter Junction two weekends ago. Their website seems to confirm… www.ftn.fedex.com/about/usbulletin/102903.htm