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Posted by E-L man tom on Wednesday, December 16, 2015 5:10 PM

Yes, very cool!

Also, along the lines of things that don't make any sense in tv or radio commercials, I've noticed this:  that in almost every commercial there's a line or a visual that doesn't make any sense. Don't know why they do that but it shows how oblivious we become when commercial time rudely interrupts our favorite program.

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Posted by challenger3980 on Wednesday, December 16, 2015 12:23 AM

eric2448
 
hon30critter

Neat ad!

I'd be curious to know how they chose the road name 'Columbia Gorge'. Perhaps they didn't want to use a more common railroad for fear of copyright infringement.

Dave

 

 

 

I believe it was filmed at the Colombia Gorge Model Railroad Club in Oregon.

 

Like a few of you mention, the steam whistle may be more associated with trains than an air horn. Could be a very well thought out commercial or someone who doesnt know any better. We may never know. At least when the commercial opens, it sounds like a diesel, they got something correct.

 

 

Ding, Ding, Ding, We have a WINNER, Yes that was filmed at the Columbia Gorge Model Railroad Club, in Portland, OR. That E Unit is a club locomotive painted for the Columbia Gorge Lines(CGL reporting marks).

I haven't been very active in the club for a couple of years now, and I hadn't even heard about this ad being filmed there, I happened to see it post on the OGR (O Gauge Railroading) forum. It took me a few viewings of the video to place it, that is the first scene you see on the right entering the layout room from the "Show" entrance.

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Posted by Lone Wolf and Santa Fe on Tuesday, December 15, 2015 10:39 PM

You all have it wrong. It is not a steam engine whistle or a diesel engine horn. It is the sound an electric train makes. duh. I know because I have heard it on commercials for electric trains, and at train shows. Smile, Wink & Grin  Cute commercial.

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Posted by andrechapelon on Monday, December 14, 2015 3:07 PM

Tempest in a teapot. I actually heard a prototype diesel locomotive use a steam whistle.

The arrival of 1971 (IIRC) was heralded in San Jose, CA by the wild blowing of a steam whistle. i actually went to the Lenzen Ave. engine terminal (since closed) to find out was going on. I wasn't the only one. Several railfans showed up looking for the source of that lovely sound. Turns out that one of the shop workers had connected the whistle to the steam generator of one of the Fairbanks-Morse Trainmasters used in SP commute service. 

Like the man says, there's a prototype for everything.

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Posted by stokesda on Monday, December 14, 2015 11:46 AM

Another steam whistle faux pas / anachronism was committed by no less than GE itself, in a commercial from a few years ago:

https://youtu.be/Co0qkWRqTdM

Starting about the 40 second mark, the kids says "My mom makes trains that are friends with trees" and you can hear the steam whistle howl in the background as the shiny new ES44 rolls by...

To be fair, though, it seems in keeping with the theme of the commercial. Earlier they showed planes with bird sounds in the background.

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Posted by eric2448 on Monday, December 14, 2015 9:58 AM

hon30critter

Neat ad!

I'd be curious to know how they chose the road name 'Columbia Gorge'. Perhaps they didn't want to use a more common railroad for fear of copyright infringement.

Dave

 

I believe it was filmed at the Colombia Gorge Model Railroad Club in Oregon.

 

Like a few of you mention, the steam whistle may be more associated with trains than an air horn. Could be a very well thought out commercial or someone who doesnt know any better. We may never know. At least when the commercial opens, it sounds like a diesel, they got something correct.

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Posted by Medina1128 on Monday, December 14, 2015 9:49 AM

That's ok, I remember an episode of Special Victims Unit, where one of the suspects was a since retired professor with Alheimers ws running his model trains and his diesel locomotive had a steam whistle. Unfortunately for us model railroaders, we have to deal with the fact that sometimes movies and tv shows don't have "technical advisors" like other genres. My late father, a career fighter pilot, would get tickled when Col. Steve Austin would take off in one jet, fly another and land in yet another.

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Posted by hon30critter on Monday, December 14, 2015 6:57 AM

Neat ad!

I'd be curious to know how they chose the road name 'Columbia Gorge'. Perhaps they didn't want to use a more common railroad for fear of copyright infringement.

Dave

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Posted by Ray Dunakin on Sunday, December 13, 2015 11:19 PM

Very cool!

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Posted by KEN MASON on Sunday, December 13, 2015 9:10 PM

What a great ad. Even with the wrong sound the message gets across. I hope it plays on TV as well as on the internet.

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Posted by GP-9_Man11786 on Sunday, December 13, 2015 7:55 PM

rrinker

 Or the air WHISTLES on the FL9's.....

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 I was going to say, it could be a Hancock air whistle.

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Posted by rrinker on Sunday, December 13, 2015 6:35 PM

 Or the air WHISTLES on the FL9's.....

             --Randy


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Posted by tomikawaTT on Sunday, December 13, 2015 6:20 PM

TheWizard

...or maybe they do know the difference, and its just some darn good advertising.

 

 

TheWizard

...or maybe they do know the difference, and its just some darn good advertising 

Got attention, didn't it.

Sort of similar to the old actor's comment on a bad review.  "I don't care what they call me, as long as they spell my name right."

(And then there are those latter-day locos that had both steam whistles and air horns...)

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Posted by cowman on Sunday, December 13, 2015 6:20 PM

Haven't seen it in the NE on TV or internet.

Get the train to tne kid to get him started in the hobby, that's the important part.  He'll figure out the difference.  Hopefully they equipped the loco with the proper decoder.

Have fun,

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Posted by TheWizard on Sunday, December 13, 2015 6:01 PM

...or maybe they do know the difference, and its just some darn good advertising.

 

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Posted by farrellaa on Sunday, December 13, 2015 5:27 PM

They aren't the only ones that don't know the difference between steam whistles and diesel horns. Even my 5 year old great grandson noticed that on one of the Paw Patrol shows; same scenario, a diesel loco sounding a steam whistle. He wanted to know why they did that? I told him the people who make these animated shows don't know about trains; maybe they should ask you before the make them! He just  laughed and said 'Yeah, I guess so!"

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Fedex Ad
Posted by eric2448 on Sunday, December 13, 2015 3:11 PM

I did a search and did not find this so forgive me if this has already been posted.

This ad played while watching videos on YouTube. Hats off to Fedex, very cool to see this. Yes, steam whistle with a diesel loco, but other than that... I wonder if its online only or actually plays on TV? Anyone?

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