Has anybody noticed that NS is running alot of commercials lately particularly on the business channels? UP sometimes runs one of theirs too.
Does anybody know if the others advertise on the t.v and if so when?
CN rail HAS crap commercials they like to run, I don’t particularily like them.
You’re correct! NS has had some pretty cool commercials. Been doing it for several years. At least they’ve been working their PR. There latest efforts to foster a “positive” working relationship with passenger rail’s a good example.
BNSF also had a commercial. Was rather quick. Silhouette of a unit train or intermodal with some big units pulling at speed.
All I know is that when I see a commercial, I change the channel.
Gabe
Haven’t seen any CSX commercials.
Hope they work on their credibility before airing one!
Who the heck watches commercials?
Well, there is one commercial that was good
http://www.dieselinnovations.com/vids/icebreaker.wmv
Adrianspeeder
Unless its funny, has something to do with trains or has hot women on it with little clothing on, I don’t watch it.
Any CSX marketing executive take note. You need a supermodel on some AC6000CWs with Jim Carrey telling jokes or at least Micheal Ward saying that he cares about improving P.R-that’s funny enough.[:D][:D]
I have seen UP and NS commercials and Amtrak but that was it. No other railroads have commercials that I have seen. I would sure like to see what CN brewed up for a commerical. (It prolly shows a CN train hitting a mudslide, then rolling down the hill into a shop, closing a shop moving work elsewhere, then scrapping the engines and all the cars on the train, then abondoning the line for no good reason…something like that) Then they say at the end: Ship CN!
I have only seen a UP commercial and only a couple of times I guess i live too far away from other lines to see their commercials.
Grand Canyon Railroad has two commercials, one with the steam engine and one with the diesel.
I like the commercials that ns has put out.Have seen the up commercials too.Csx might start out their commercials with “who we are” and I’ll take 10 percent for the marketing idea.
stay safe
Joe
I feel your pain!
I haven’t seen them on television, but have seen them on their website though. They are pretty cool, especially the Point of View one. It’s neat when it shows the train going out on that bridge and then it speeds up the video and the NS logo comes up.
did anyone catch what locomotive/markings are pulling the DHL VOFC (Van on Flat Car) train in their latest commercial?[?]
dd
Is that a regular type of train or just an advertising ploy?
the DHL VOFC is just an ad thing. I think that most of the “train” you see on TV is digitally rendered (replicated) from one or two cars. The look on the UPS guy’s face is real though.
There have been at least two threads on this. It is the Fillmore & Western GP30 still in Arizona & California Railway paint. Its listed on their website, they show the location as Parker, AZ.
Talk about misleading advertising!!!
Two things, the DHL train isn’t any kind of xOFC except maybe FOFC, freight-OFC. Only people who frequent this forum would think that it was some sort of special train. The ordinary person will quickly identify it as a train bringing in a lot of DHL local delivery vans!
As for “Talk about misleading advertising!!!” ads are like politicians promises; it is only surprising when they turn out to be true!