UP sure had fun in even the 60s and 70s. Meanwhile most other railroads would have been plugging their ears over this song while trying to just stay alive while suffering horribly
@@SignalMan9292 Technically, it's the Denver & Rio Grande Western under the Southern Pacific operating name. The Union Pacific corporation is just plastered over the railroads
Oh hello you, i just finished watching the alco c855 episode of the dead on arrival series, and was interested on the song in the end of the vid and looked at the credits and found this, these things make my day
From the engineer in Portland, to the clerk in Idaho - We're the people of the railroad, and we make the engines go! From the tower out in Denver to the welder in LA; we're the Union Pacific, and we've got the right of way! From our switchyards in Nebraska to the blue Pacific Shore, We can load up all your cargo - and come rollin' home for more! From the brakeman in Wyoming, to the men who run our show - We're the Union Pacific, and our people make us go! We're a million miles of history, a-shinin' in the sun; we're the Union Pacific, and our story's just begun!
I never saw this Union Pacific commercial or heard this jingle before, but it's really catchy! I'd love to see Union Pacific produce a 21st Century remake of this commercial shown nationwide. They could have their "Powered by Our People" unit in at least one shot in the commercial too and update the lyrics to reflect the current and larger Union Pacific where it would go as such: From the engineer in Vegas, to the clerk in Chicago - We're the people of the railroad, and we make the engines go! From the tower out in Dallas to the welder in LA; we're the Union Pacific, and we've got the right of way! From our switchyards in New Orleans to the blue Pacific Shore, We can load up all your cargo - and come rollin' home for more! From the brakeman in Seattle, to the folks who run our show - We're the Union Pacific, and our people make us go! We're a million miles of history, a-shinin' in the sun; we're the Union Pacific, and our story's just begun!
Ah, speaking of that, the right of way belongs to their starlight express son greaseball (A:L Webber’s production is returning in 2024, can they handle it)
UP only really became a shit place to work in the past 10 years or so. In the 2000s it was ranked as the best place to work in America. "Our People Make Us Go" only became ironic recently.
@@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory 3 words: Precision Scheduled Railroading (PSR). They're cutting jobs. Every railroad uses PSR. There's nothing precision or scheduled about it. What a frickin joke. I hate it. Even the tourist railroad I work for uses PSR. I call it Precision Scheduled Failroading (PSFR).
@@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory Precision Scheduled Railroading (PSR) became popular in 2015, when E. Hunter Harrison used it at railroads like Canadian Pacific and CSXT. Every railroad uses PSR, including Amtrak, BNSF Railway, CSX Transportation, Canadian National, Canadian Pacific, Norfolk Southern, Kansas City Southern and other shortlines, regionals, terminal switching operations use PSR including Watco and Gensee and Wyoming. Even the tourist railroad I work for started using PSR in 2019.
Today They Would Be Singing About Going From Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis, And New Orleans To LA, The Bay Area And Portland And From Minnesota To Texas!!!!!!! That's Today's Union Pacific!!!!!!
How would you feel if you were stopped at a grade crossing and saw a speeder coming down the tracks with a bunch of railroaders on it crowded around a piano?…
Imagine a Union Pacific train just passing through Penn Central territory with this song playing. The poor PC employees would just be begging for the pain of Penn Central to end knowing their railroad is absolute crap
@@YukariAkiyamaTanks hey, don’t talk bad about my home railroad. Rock Island is my home road, half of my family worked for the Rock Island. It is part of my family heritage and history. Rock Island runs in my blood!
Always loved this commercial! Used to frequently sing it out loud around the da house back in da day, & pretty much drove other family-members absolutely nuts with it? One other thing - didn't the Girls back then look a LOT prettier too?? 😺
They were much prettier back then. I noticed that the following: no neon colored hair, no hideous tattoos covering their bodies, not hideous blobs of cellulite, and actually looked like women.
WTF? How does this make sense 1. its 4014 not 4000. 2. 4000 is dead. 3. 4014 Is in Excursion/Passenger Service and as Buckeye said 4. The Wasatch Mountains are in Utah and Wyoming 5. I think you are under the age of 9
A modern remake of this song would probably have a portion something like this: "We're the Union Pacific and our people have to go." That's about what they think of their employees at this point.
A nice commercial from the past. Of course if they did an updated version there would be less emphasis on the employees as many of the jobs and functions shown here are now automated. While it still takes people to make the trains run I am sure they would feature the new automated dispatching center and other modern aspects of todays railroads. They also would defiantly include how energy efficient rail shipping is and low pollution it is compared to other methods. But railroads do need to do more advertising to remind consumers how trains are still an important shipping component in getting goods to factories and products to the consumer.
I hope you don't mind too much that I used this catchy theme (Just like Andrew Rail 'a Bammers) in some of my videos. Don't worry. You'll DEFINATELY be credited. Reply if there's any issue with it. (I really pray that not.) Thx. so much for posting this to the net.
Now the railroad is a crap show. They value the stock holders more than anything. 3 train companies are the top 5 worst employers in America with this one making the number one spot.
*why the fuck didn't I know about this when I was little!?!?!?!?* edit: I was only 1 year old when this came out, I was born in 76. I forgot I was born in 1976...this made me feel like a kid again. LOL.
Well, I can confidently say that, if I ever find myself teleported to the western US and sent back to the late 70s, I definitely won't be using Union Pacific. I mean, do you see how they're riding on that maintenance car at 0:18? That's definitely not up to BR safety standards! :D
USA Won world war 2 and 1 becase Union pacifics great power made USA Won The first original First Big boy 4000 is still on service the most heavy steam locomotive The first original First Big boy 4000 still hauls tanks in 2021
Excuse me? The Union Pacific 4000 Class had very little with the course of the Second World War, and had absolutely nothing to do with the outcome of World War I. The first Union Pacific Big Boy was delivered in 1941 before the US even entered the Second World War, and a good 30 years after World War I ended. The US even alone didn't contribute that much in World War I, the only thing the US did during the war was help speed up the defeat of Germany from 1917 to 1918 and then the war ended. The US only suffered 115,000 Casualties in the First World War compared to the three million Russians, or the four million British and French.
Excuse me what? Out of the original 25 Union Pacific Big Boys, only seven were preserved. UP 4004, UP 4005, UP 4006, UP 4012, UP 4014, UP 4017, UP 4018, and UP 4023 are the last Seven surviving examples. Union Pacific 4000 was one of the engines that didn't make it into preservation and was scrapped in 1960
UP 4014 doesn't haul Tanks in 2021, as there are no tanks to haul. UP 4014 is for preservation, and it hasn't hauled a huge freight train since it was retired and restored.
@@BuckeyeNationRailroader actually the steam crew will run the 4014 on revenue freight ferry moves from Cheyenne. They do it with 844 as well, but now its mostly 4014 doing the ferry moves.
