GE Poster In Trains

[Anonymous]

Who do we thank for the GE poster in this month's issue. It was a nice surprise and throw-back to the days when manufacturers did this kind of thing regularly. With encouragement, we might get more.

[locomutt]

QUOTE: Originally posted by mffisher

Who do we thank for the GE poster in this month's issue. It was a nice surprise and throw-back to the days when manufacturers did this kind of thing regularly. With encouragement, we might get more.

Probably GE. (was a Very nice attachment)[:D]
Maybe EMD will follow suit.[:0]

[espeefoamer]

That is a GREAT shot on the GE poster[8D]!!!

[CP5415]

Yes it is SP.

It's Morant's Curve on the CPR in BC Canada.

One of the best places on the North American continent to take a photo of not only the locomotives but as scenery as well.

Gordon

[Anonymous]

My beloved wife always kids me about my subscription to TRAINS... she says I get the magazine just to look at the pictures. She also objects to my looking at "nekkid locomotives".

I pulled the attachment out of the magazine, had to go to work, and there it stayed in the middle of the bed.

I found it the next day with a post it note attached: "Please don't leave your nekkid locomotives around where innocent dogs and cats can see them."

Beautiful picture. I'm a gonna frame it.

Erik

[tree68]

QUOTE: Originally posted by erikthered

My beloved wife always kids me about my subscription to TRAINS... she says I get the magazine just to look at the pictures. She also objects to my looking at "nekkid locomotives".

I pulled the attachment out of the magazine, had to go to work, and there it stayed in the middle of the bed.

I found it the next day with a post it note attached: "Please don't leave your nekkid locomotives around where innocent dogs and cats can see them."

Beautiful picture. I'm a gonna frame it.

Erik

ROFLMAO <GASP><GASP>LMAO EVEN MORE!

[locomutt]

QUOTE: Originally posted by erikthered

My beloved wife always kids me about my subscription to TRAINS... she says I get the magazine just to look at the pictures. She also objects to my looking at "nekkid locomotives".

I pulled the attachment out of the magazine, had to go to work, and there it stayed in the middle of the bed.

I found it the next day with a post it note attached: "Please don't leave your nekkid locomotives around where innocent dogs and cats can see them."

Beautiful picture. I'm a gonna frame it.

Erik

ROFLMAO.................................Still!!!![:D]
CW wants me to frame ours!!!![:D]

The 'cats' just put their 'paws' over their eyes;
the 'dog' is still looking.[:D] (both)

[dknelson]

Back when both EMD and GE would display their newest locomotives at Galesburg's Railroad Days, they both prepared beautiful color photo posters as give aways --smaller than what was in trains, more like really huge post cards, but suitable for framing nonetheless, and on sturdy glossy paper stock. The SD70MAC card in that wonderful green and cream of the BN is my favorite.
Plus EMD had refrigerator magnets featuring the GP50 as give aways. And the rail unions, Amtak, the BN and the Santa Fe as well as Operation Lifesaver also had lots of give aways at Railroad Days. The Santa Fe gave away water bottles one year. What a pity the BNSF no longer has displays for Galesburg RR Days.

Back in the mid 1960s, EMD ran a striking series of ads in Trains (and I think in trade magazines like Railway Age and the like) - these were color paintings of their newest locomoties in a highly dynamic, exciting style of modern art. SD40s and 45s, SW1500s, GP40s, and so on. There was also an ad featuring color photos of newly delivered engines in Soo Line paint (the white with red lettering).
So I was maybe, oh, 14 years old, and I wrote to EMD in LaGrange IL around 1966 and asked, please send me pictures and information about your locomotives. I also mentioned that I owned an HO scale Varney F3. So some kind person at EMD stuffed -- and I do mean stuffed -- a large envelope filled with mint copies of all those full color ads, PLUS detailed drawings of the locomotives PLUS -- they went to the archives and found a drawing of the F3 -- by that time out of production for a good 20 years! And all this for a kid. They treated my request like I was a manager at a Class 1. I still have that envelope of materials, in mint condition, and every once in a while take out the pictures and drawings and marvel at a by-gone era in industrial public relations. And no, it's not for sale so don't even ask.
Dave Nelson

[Anonymous]

That poster was a nice addition.

I see those Canpotex cars all the time at the CN/CP interchange at Sapperton out in Coquitlam, they usually all stay together as Unit Trains....

..Wish I could have seen those two new loco's on the head end in person though.

[Anonymous]

Lol, i already framed mine! its on the ceiling above my bed...

I really wonder how advertising like this will help GE, i mean come on... im not going to buy a muli-millon dollar locomotive for my own personal uses? or will I?

Also, look at the picture, it looks a bit to "clean" to fit in i belive it has been P'shopped.

and the page it was sticky tacked to, look at the locomotives snow plow, it looks like a crapy computer rendered render. I think is a hoax!

[JoeKoh]

I liked the picture matt did too. Matt asked if I could put it in his room.
stay safe
Joe

[halifaxcn]

Framed and ready to go for what I thought would be on a wall in my MAN LAND basement, no dice. My three y.o now has it in his room over his bed!

Another rail fan is born!

Regards,

[Anonymous]

That is a really great poster! I love that picture! I hope that this is something that they'll continue to do in the future. I've already framed mine, but haven't decided where to put it, yet.

[Anonymous]

My wife read my last post, chuckled at everyone's response, and pointed out that she had bought a beautiful print from the "official" GE painter. It's entitled "The Wind Beneath My Wings" and has four GE AC6000's in UP paint pulling K-line container trains.

Depite past comments about GE's, and ill feelings expressed about UP, it's a beaut of a print... and the GE posted will go right above it.... with my spouse's permission.

She is grateful that I admire a well turned out EMD in fresh paint more than say, Miss December. I don't have the heart to quote "form following function" in either case.

BTW, I really DO read the articles in TRAINS.

Erik

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by erikthered

My beloved wife always kids me about my subscription to TRAINS... she says I get the magazine just to look at the pictures. She also objects to my looking at "nekkid locomotives".

I pulled the attachment out of the magazine, had to go to work, and there it stayed in the middle of the bed.

I found it the next day with a post it note attached: "Please don't leave your nekkid locomotives around where innocent dogs and cats can see them."

Beautiful picture. I'm a gonna frame it.

Erik

FOFLMAO...

We need a HOOTERS orange and white scheme!! Kindof like the old ICG, but different...

LC

[Sterling1]

I pulled the poster out and looked: I was practically drooling, but not on the poster. The GEs and covered hoppers look a little too clean though, someone must have run through Photoshop is what I though when I saw it . . .

[espeefoamer]

QUOTE: Originally posted by halifaxcn

Framed and ready to go for what I thought would be on a wall in my MAN LAND basement, no dice. My three y.o now has it in his room over his bed!

Another rail fan is born!

Regards,

You'll have to buy another issue so you can have a poster for your basement[:)].

[FThunder11]

I liked the poster

[Anonymous]

Thank God that there was "NO" UP on the Point[xx(].

[miniwyo]

This is in Febuary's edition? I am not a subscriber but I do buy a copy from time to time.
was planning on going a buying one tomorrow anyway, got a long couple nights at work, probably won't have any swimmers at all! :)

[Anonymous]

What is GE's motive? Who are they trying to sell what to? Good PR, but what is the goal? Lawrence ('68 637)

[CShaveRR]

I believe they've done a lot of speculation about the photoshop work on another forum.

My observations:

The Canpotex paint scheme on those covered hoppers behind the new units has been obsolete for years; all I ever see is cars with that logo painted over.

Also, is the radiator area thick enough for those to be the new units?

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by CShaveRR

The Canpotex paint scheme on those covered hoppers behind the new units has been obsolete for years; all I ever see is cars with that logo painted over.

Not so, CShaveRR.

I see these unit trains all the time at the CN/CP Sapperton Interchange. They always run as unit trains all with that car style and logo.

[Anonymous]

Roger that. Canpotex came out with those hoppers just a few years ago for unit potash service. I think a recent issue of Trains even showed one on display at that trade show in Chicago. Their combination of short length and tall height (hope that makes sense) lets Canpotex ship more product per train while keeping train length from exceeding CP's typical siding length.

[gabe]

At first, I was like the rest of you--thinking what possible use would GE get out of putting these posters in Trains Magazines. I even contemplated calling GE and asking where I could buy one, and if they could have it delivered UPS or Fed Ex (you must admit, it would make a hell of a generator the next time power goes out).

But, in all seriousness, I think it is good marketing on GE’s part upon further thought.

(1) I am no where near retirement, but I would be willing to bet a lot of Trains readers are and are prime people with surplus income to invest in a company like GE. Having GE's image put forth to a group who would react so positively can't hurt when it comes to attracting investors.

(2) I am told several railroads subscribe to Trains. I imagine railroads seeing this beautiful photograph can't hurt too much either.

Gabe

P.S. When UP put one of the first EMD SD-70ACe's in a creek I saw a photograph of a train going buy, the SD-70ACe all washed up and upside down in a river while GE power on point of the functional train that looked to be making good time. If that picture wouldn't have been so insulting to a potential buyer, I would be surprised if GE didn't give us that picture instead.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by gabe

At first, I was like the rest of you--thinking what possible use would GE get out of putting these posters in Trains Magazines. I even contemplated calling GE and asking where I could buy one, and if they could have it delivered UPS or Fed Ex (you must admit, it would make a hell of a generator the next time power goes out).

But, in all seriousness, I think it is good marketing on GE’s part upon further thought.

(1) I am no where near retirement, but I would be willing to bet a lot of Trains readers are and are prime people with surplus income to invest in a company like GE. Having GE's image put forth to a group who would react so positively can't hurt when it comes to attracting investors.

(2) I am told several railroads subscribe to Trains. I imagine railroads seeing this beautiful photograph can't hurt too much either.

Gabe

P.S. When UP put one of the first EMD SD-70ACe's in a creek I saw a photograph of a train going buy, the SD-70ACe all washed up and upside down in a river while GE power on point of the functional train that looked to be making good time. If that picture wouldn't have been so insulting to a potential buyer, I would be surprised if GE didn't give us that picture instead.

It's just regular old publicity all the way around.
It got all of us talking about the new locomotives.

Something you don't see as often as one used to in previous years...

Back in the gold old days where every class one boxcar had a logo and a slogan on the side of it.

[Anonymous]

To CShaveRR,

What site had this thread, i would like to see it, because it is a bit to "neat" for the picture.

Anywho,

I belive its true when you say its not about wanting people to purchase locomotives, but rather invest in GE.

...Out!...