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Amtrak Advertising Genius
Posted by Metro Red Line on Monday, January 11, 2010 10:25 PM

 As airline passengers deal with full body scans, TSA luggage inspections and taking off their shoes, Amtrak has discovered a clever way to advertise itself:

 

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/01/a_picture_is_wo.php?campaign=th_rss_cars

 

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Posted by Phoebe Vet on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 7:57 AM

Great add.  They should run with it nation wide.

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Posted by BNSFwatcher on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 3:44 PM

Cool!  Very cool!!!  Now that we will be able to take our guns along, why not "Fido"?  Easily do-able.  Maybe PETA would chip in for 'Kennel Keeps' in the baggage car.  Of course, yappy barking dogs would be thrown out in North Dakota at night.

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Posted by Nataraj on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 1:31 AM
haha nice!!!
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Posted by TomDiehl on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 8:43 AM

I guess real estate isn't the only place it's "location, location, location."

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Posted by Deggesty on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 4:40 PM

Lovely, lovely, lovely. It reminds of the ACL's advertisements forty or so years ago in which the point was made that you did not have to worry about a detour by way of Cuba when going from New York to Florida if you rode their trains.

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Posted by Phoebe Vet on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 4:59 PM

Deggesty

Lovely, lovely, lovely. It reminds of the ACL's advertisements forty or so years ago in which the point was made that you did not have to worry about a detour by way of Cuba when going from New York to Florida if you rode their trains.

Johnny

... and the metal detectors and sky marshals couldn't stop it.  What stopped it was the Cuban boat people.  They brought the news that all those people who had hijacked a ride to Cuba were in prison in Cuba.  If we had not banned all contact with Cuba they would have known that much sooner.

You have to wonder about the mind that thinks he will be welcomed home in his hijacked plane.  Duh

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Posted by bubbajustin on Sunday, January 17, 2010 6:09 AM

Awesome place for an advertisement!

Amtrak: The real way to fly!

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Posted by highgreen on Tuesday, January 19, 2010 9:31 AM
Let's hope it can last before the TSA insists on screening 5 year old Amtrak riders on their way to visit grandma in Springfield - or vice versa.
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Posted by Sunnyland on Sunday, January 24, 2010 2:55 PM

I read about this in Trains News wire.  A great idea.  From what I hear about riding planes today, I think this is a very clever idea and it gets the point across.  Less hassle and great scenery.  As I've always said, "if you've seen one cloud, you've seen them all". Not really, they are pretty the first time or two, but not like the view from a train window.  GO AMTRAK.

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