WOW Look at this GE Locomotive Commercial!

Trains Magazine General Discussion
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http://216.128.12.36/video/gecommercial.wmv

And even does the making of it!

Now where is MRS railroad?

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That is very cool I liked it alot.

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I believe MRS is in Brazil. Pedro might pop in here and verify that.

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Yes, Brazil…

Pedro has a few hundred photos he might share![:D]

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Cute idea for a commercial…but that song makes me think of “Top Gun”. I’d love to see the size of the catapult that gets one of those beasts up to 140 kph! [:O]

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Not the loco in the commercial, but the downgrade track through Cajon Pass did a pretty good job with an ore train several years back. The train got away, the helper engineer threw emergency air and the wheels locked up. By the time the Big Steel Toboggan reached the bottom it was sliding along at close to 100 MPH when the inevitable happened!

To add insult to injury, the contractor hired to recover the ore dug into a gasoline pipeline…

Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)

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…Take my breath away…[:-^]

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WOW !

[:-^]

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“…talk to me Goose…”

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I have a problem with this comercial…

[soapbox]

  1. The actor that portrays the GE Erie worker is not a real worker but a actor.

  2. The Actor that plays the GE Worker is too convincing and has a huge Beer Gut(What is GE trying to say about its workers in Erie?[(-D]

  3. The Brazilin Railroad workers DONT HAVE THERE SAFTEY GLASSES! but the American Railroad workers do.

  4. In addition to the big behomouths what is GE making for the rest of us? As in small switchers for grain elevators,junk yards and short lines?

[dinner]

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Before I saw the commercial and the related material I thought the MRS referred to was the Manufacturers Ry. in St. Louis, which is a switching operation (still?) owned by Anheuser-Busch.

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I could be wrong, but im almost positive that accident was caused by the helper engineer putting her in emergency, therefore shutting off the only thing holding them back, the Dynamic Brakes.

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A top notch ad and a top notch effort.

Reminds me of old railroad promotional movies, Milwaukee Road’s 1947 “A Railroad at Work” and BN’s 1970 award winner, “Portrait of a Railroad.”

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I agree , it makes railroading look cool again !!

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That makes me want to jump in the car, head down the street, go to the GE dealership, and go buy a brand new AC4400CW fresh off the lot!

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Excellent clip! Goose would be proud[angel]. Tanks for sharing it!

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[:)]

Excellent. America hard at work, and proud of it. Thank you, Trolley Dodger.

Twelve cylinders? You call those twelve cylinders? Now, here are twelve real cylinders:

http://people.bath.ac.uk/ccsshb/12cyl/

[:)]

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That was a neet commercial.

The music just does not make it with out, Kelly Mc Gillis sitting on a bike behind me or me looking into her eyes.

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Very interesting commercial, but I have to agree the song is so linked to Top Gun it’s hard not to think of it.

Also, someone has their scales wrong. An aircraft catapult snaps those puppys off at a lot more than 140 kph, more like mph.

And, the final report on the Cajon accident listed several causes for the accident, basically, the train never had adequate total breaking power (train, loco and dynamic) for the speed it was allowed to travel. As a result, the allowable speeds on grades vs tonnage were changed rather significantly downward.

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Stop with the “Top Gun” references please…

Quinton Tarantino completely ruined that movie for me…I can’t watch or hear any of it with a straight face anymore.