Trains on TV and Railroad advertisments.

[Anonymous]

Do you remember TV shows who have episodes when characters ride real trains? Example on I love Lucy when they come home from california they Ride the Union Pacific's City of Los Angeles in which Lucy pulls the Emergency brake many times. On the facts of life they ride Empire service trains many times from Peekskill to New York.

Ive seen Amtrak ads on TV as well as multible ads in Sports Illustrated and other magizines. In some old geographic magizines from the 60's and 70's Ive seen ads for Ocean liners and trains such as the Empire Builder and Union Pacific trains.

[lonewoof]

I remember an "Andy Griffith" where , I think, Aunt Bee comes back from a trip, arriving in Mayberry, NC on the Union Pacific...

[lonewoof]

...and every time Jack Benny would go to the train station, the track announcer would always be saying "Train now leaving for Anaheim, Azusa, and Cu Ca Monnnnga..."

[mloik]

QUOTE: Originally posted by lonewoof

...and every time Jack Benny would go to the train station, the track announcer would always be saying "Train now leaving for Anaheim, Azusa, and Cu Ca Monnnnga..."

And that "track announcer" was Mel Blanc of Looney Tunes (i.e. Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, etc.) fame.

I once got to hear him do the famous "Anaheim, Azusa, and Cu Ca Monnnnnga" routine live at a Looney Tunes festival back when I lived in LA.

[DaveBr]

Around and about 65 years ago there used to be on the radio a program called "The Main Line" 1 hour on wednesday nites at 8:00 pm.All about train life. DaveBr

[CSXrules4eva]

I've seen on CSNBC and other stations like that, NS, BNSF, and UP adds. I have to hand it to them they were pretty good. I haven't seen any from CSX though. I alos have a movie called Monay Train, which is about two transit police who, highjack the "monay train". The railroad is Metro North. Becides my train videos I don't own any movies whith "real trains".

[oskar]

I just saw a ad for Dodge it has coal cars I think it csx's I said JM?X in the movie Garfield. Garfield trys to find Odie on Amtrak so he goes in the ditchpachers office and controls the trains it was a non-engineer train th unit was AMT 513 or 515 all the trains had the same unit number




kevin

[Anonymous]

The local news always shows a little segment on their noon program called Mr. Food. Today he was featured standing besides some passenger train. Tomarrow he's gonna be talking in a dining car. I think its a weeks worth of shows based on railroad food. Not sure. Kinda missed it.

[espeefoamer]

We can't ever forget Pettycoat Junction.
There is a DSL commercial showing a freight train loaded with DSL vans on flat cars.

[Anonymous]

During election night, I saw a Norfolk Southern advertisement on ABC. I don't know why they are advertising in California, but it was an interesting ad.

What I don't like is the portrayal of steam locomotives in modern movies--to have flame coming out of the smoke stack is not only incredibly dangerous, but pretty much impossible. I once saw an old movie with an NYC boxcab electric in it; that was interesting.

But of course, who can forget the train scenes in White Christmas! One of the trains has Santa Fe F's on the front, and it is shown going on the line to San Diego (they're supposed to be going to Vermont--go figure). There is also a brief glimpse of what looks to be a Pacific or so in the movie. In any case, it has nice train scenes.

See you around the forums,
Daniel Parks

[ericsp]

QUOTE: Originally posted by espeefoamer

We can't ever forget Pettycoat Junction.
There is a DSL commercial showing a freight train loaded with DSL vans on flat cars.

DHL?

[Anonymous]

Does anyone here know the name of the Doris Day film featuring "Old 97"??

Jack Lemmon costarred.

[mloik]

QUOTE: Originally posted by espeefoamer

We can't ever forget Pettycoat Junction.

I know I sure won't ever forget the opening scenes with a certain portion of the cast and the watertower....

[dustyg]

There's a Dr. Pepper commercial right now featuring a passenger train arriving and two singers extolling the virtues of that soft drink. And although I'm not a big fan of U.P., I love their current commercials with voice-over work by Sam Elliot.

I also recall an episode of "Moonlighting" that takes place on one of those "murder-mystery" trains, and one of the passengers ends up dead for real. I think I have it on video somewhere.

[SALfan]

QUOTE: Originally posted by lonewoof

I remember an "Andy Griffith" where , I think, Aunt Bee comes back from a trip, arriving in Mayberry, NC on the Union Pacific...

I think it was the Southern Pacific, but either one would be equally wrong. The mountains in the background obviously weren't the Appalachians, either.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by M.W. Hemphill

"It Happened To Jane," released 1959.

Plot summary from imdb.com:

"Jane Osgood (Doris Day) is trying to support her two young children by running a lobster business. After one of her shipments is ruined by inattention at the railroad station, Jane decides to take on Harry Foster Malone (Ernie Kovacs), director of the line and the "meanest man in the world". With the help of her lifelong friend - and lawyer - George Denham (Jack Lemmon), Jane sues Malone for the price of her lobsters & her lost business. What she ends up with is a lot more that either of them bargained for."

If you can tolerate Doris Day's mugging, it's not a bad film.

Very good Mark. I caught it on TMC a couple of times. I picked it because it was a Doris Day movie, in the blurb on the tv they mentioned nothing about trains. I think she only sings one time during the movies so the guys should be able to tolerate it[:p].