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Discussion of General Electric locomotive technology. Current official information can be found here: www.getransportation.com.

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 #381951  by MEC407
 
Here is a link to a new GE Locomotives television commercial, as well as a short documentary on how the commercial was made.

http://216.128.12.36/video/gecommercial.wmv

 #382516  by Steve F45
 
i saw it earlier during the nbc news. i thought it was pretty funny.

 #383626  by Matt K Dettman
 
Da, that's what you do when you have a pot of cash to spend on advertising. Too bad EMD doesn't have that flair ... yet.

 #391869  by Jersey Jeff
 
Now if only the RR industry would advertise as much as big pharma..I'd actually watch TV more! :-D :-D :-D

 #392181  by amoreho1
 
intresting

 #392185  by Steve F45
 
i just saw another one, but this was for their aircraft engines. It was pretty funny too.

 #396522  by Dakguy201
 
As Uhaul's post confirms, the music is from the movie "Top Gun".

Maybe the commercial is a message from GE to EMD? :-D

Seriously, among other things it points out that heavy manufacturing is alive and well in the U.S.

 #400069  by Nasadowsk
 
The making of documentery was interesting.

Darn, I wish I had an Arri camera that was nice like that one :(

(Goes into a corner with his Bolex and sulks)

Interestingly, yeah, they shot it on film. Go figure.