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I can remember from a few years ago a Duracel commercial with a German ICE train. <br /> <br />I can also remember another commercial also from a few years ago with a South African steam hauled passenger train. It emphasised the soot and how dirty the crew was. Then this woman walks bye who is feeling fresh perhaps because of soap or deodorant or whatever they were advertising and all of a sudden the smoke gets sucked back into the smokestack of the engine. <br /> <br />Have any of you ever seen the show "The Best Commercials You've Never Seen"? There was a good train commercial shown on there once from Austrailia advertising XXXX beer. There's a guy on a train and the conductor is collecting his ticket. The man asks him, "So, when does the train stop at Bowen?" The conductor replies, "This is Wednesday, the train doesn't stop at Bowen on Wednesdays." The man then says, "Oh, but I've got a big appointment at Bowen." "Well", the conductor says, "I'll see if I can get the driver to slow down when we go through Bowen, but you'll have to hit the platform running." You then see the train going past Bowen station. The conductor is holding is holding him out of the train and his legs are moving. He sets him down and the man lands on the platform running alongside the train. Him and the conductor exchange a thumbs up. Then, someone grabs him from the last car of the train and pulls him back on. You then see them inside. The guy who grabbed him inside says to him, "You're lucky I got you there, mate. The train doesn't stop at Bowen on Wednesdays." You then see that they're in a bar car. "Oh well," the man says. He then sits down at the bar and says, "Well, I reckon we could do with a XXXX." Very funny commercial! <br /> <br />I once read something on the internet about a commercial that was going to be shown in Brazil advertising Nissan trucks. It had the truck racing a train to a crossing and then running into it and causing the locomotive to fall over on its side. The Brazilian railways took them to court to prevent it from being shown on the air. I'm really glad they did. A commercial like that simply disgusts me!
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