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.
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!
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?…
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.
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!!!!!!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Interviewer: How many times did you play the jingle in your commercials?
Union Pacific: *Yes.*
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
ATSF never failed so they didn't have to plug their ears.
UP is the lone original survivor while all of the other railroads have changed names. Even NS
@@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
May southern pacific roll on
If UP rewrote this song today it would be all about how valuable their investors are and how their employees are worthless to them.
From the Brokers down on Wall Street to The Shipper in Taipei we're the Union Pacific and the stock price is our way!
From the call center in India to our investors in Dubai. Our assets go for miles! Their value always high!
All about the “men who run our show” now
Pityful its not about a team............
From the money, money, money
To the money, money, money
Well good that for one, they don't always think so and for another such rewrites don't exist.
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!
We're the Union Pacific Railroad people!
WE CAN HANDLE IT!!
Petition for UP to remake every single one of their commercials
probably won't happen, but we can dream
Yes it would be great Also im looking for one of the music from this or something else
yep, i would sign
@@santafewarbonnetproductions wait we're warbonnets.
@@BNSF4706 cool
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)
they should make ads like this again
I just emailed their media dept! 😊
@@ginofilippi7961 what did they say
@@bazinga1783
No response. Great ads however.
Yeah.
*looks at how they currently treat employees*
"Our people make us go"
That did not age well given the current situation with UP lmao
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.
@@Shortline819 what is happening with Union Pacifc right now?
@@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).
@@stuartadamsrailfanningvideos How long have they been doing this?
@@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.
At the beginning of the video if you pause you can see a news Station!!! Also absolute JAM!!!
My late uncle Bill Fox was included in this version. He loved the UP and UP Employees. 😊
Where was he shown?
@@sambrown6426 At approx 35 sec mark - he seated in office chair 😊
@@ginofilippi7961 Ok, thanks.
Your uncle seems like a great guy
@@jacobdubielak
Thanks! He loved the UP 💯
*PLAY THIS AT MY FUNERAL with a U50C on my casket*
Yes
I want this to be played at my funeral while I lie in a U50 shaped casket.
I do recall 1977 but I don t recall this advertisement
0:43 They're polishing up a 2-8-0 Consolidation.
The one in NE
No is a 4-8-0 steam locomotive
And one that's still around today, might I add.
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
bruh....Penncentral was fucked from the beginning.
Those PC employees were some of the best paid in the industry. They weren't complaining about much.
Tbh It wouldn't be PC it would be the Rock island, they were a lot worse towards the end
@@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!
Well I now have an ad that I'm obsessed with lol
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?…
I would probably lock my truck, and hop on with them.
@@nikerailfanningttm9046 🤣
This is absolutely magnificent!
This song is so catchy :D
Back in the day when people loved doing their job
Dude, this is a commercial, it's literally corporate propaganda
@@thegreypenguin5097 there's actually a lot of retired engineers I have talked to that loved their jobs
Yeah, back in the day when the RR actually treated it's employees like human beings. Easy to love a job like that.
That was about the size of it Random Dude
@@michlo3393 I believe that to be true
Great bit! Love the UPRR!
0:16 this scene is so cinematic i love it, why didnt other railroads think of this shot?
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.
Who else is watching this for the 100th time?
*this is my 1,000th time, because I have every version of Union Pacific's songs*
I've just love it
I remember this ad on TV when I was in high school, late 1970s. It was usually an evening ad. Back when ads on TV were good.
0:51 OMG yes they used a DDA40X!
With a Hancock 3 Chime!... wait... that doesn't sound right
i'll take a U50 or U50C over a EMD "dd" series any day.
Nerds...
@@robertoperez2579 you are a nerd.
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!!!!!!
i love big boy 4000 class very much the first 4000 engineer is still alive and big boy 4000 hauls 100 Sherman tanks up the Wasatch in new York
Excuse me? The Wasatch Mountains are in Utah and Wyoming, not in New York State
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
You need to find the “We are Southern Pacific” railroad commercial.
Magnificent video, I like it 5 stars, keep up the great work, my friend, i subbed your channel, Greetings from Portugal.
I like this union pacific song in the 1977
The ATSF ran one like this but it wasn't as good as this one that's for sure
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.
The good ads
another one
0:22 is that C.W. McCall? If not it sure does look like him back in the 70s.
*NANI?!?!?!?!?!?*
I think he's also at 0:33
@@TravelByTrainWithNaveen that looked like him a lot. Also I think he wrote this song too.
CW McCall has died to cancer… I’m sad now.
This is easy to make all you need is a Locomotive behind you and old school, singers and editing
RIP railroad commercials
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.
Remember: "Labour does not contribute to profits"
-Presidential Emergency Board
Ha
UP 🆙
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.
Not a safety vest in sight...😃😃😃😃
maybe we can handle it.
thats a CSX slogan, as they can't go one month without wrecking or derailing one of their own trains.
Love ❤ these videos.
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.
hello diesel Duty
Unfortunately today, 80% of the positions have been eliminated and nobody smiles anymore.
I want this played as my funeral song
“We can handle it!”
Meanwhile: animation of the union pacific big boy train crash 💀
When companies actually cared about their employees
its so good
Cool 1970s pre merger ❤
0:52 will be like: WE'RE THE UNION PACIFIC. WE CAN HANDLE IT! YEAH!🤗
To the men who run our show wouldn’t be allowed anymore lol
SOUTHERN PACIFIC ROLL ON ROLL ON
Why does the "Horn" for the 3900 Centennial at the end sound like a Hancock 3 Chime Specifically with 3985s BP?
I think that's a Leslie RS3L.
@@anhkietduongdoRS5T
Does anyone have the audio file of this version of the song, I have the 1972 and 1984 ones, this one isn’t like either of them
*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.
OMG this is super cool
This song isn’t on Spotify 😢
0:16 were the union Pacific
Are they the Merrill Jay Singers?
Union Pacific not the company it once was😢😢
[interviewer] do you think your the be-
[union pacific] yed
00:00:09 And We Make The Engine Go.
No one is wearing high visibility safety vests or goggles or ear plugs!
UNION PACIFIC the guys who deleted half of their steam locomotives
I want to play this in front of Shawn b's house!!!
Busin
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
Nah thats how u be a real railroader
Onion Pacific
I think Union Pacific was made in 1892?
no 1862
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.
I think you forgot about the Pennsylvania railroad.
🔥🔥🔥🗣🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🗣🔥🗣🔥
Union pacific is better than southern pacific
Back when the UP was a real railroad.
To the war post
NEVER GiVE UP
Wtf happened? Oh wait wall street...
MAX & RUBY
Why
Literally the worst version of great big rolling railroad.
@CK124’s RUclips Channel of Unrecognized Talent the lyrics sound awful, plus i do not even know why I said it
@CK124’s RUclips Channel of Unrecognized Talent they just... sound wrong.
@CK124’s RUclips Channel of Unrecognized Talent no. Its guys instead of girls. I kinda like this version.
@CK124’s RUclips Channel of Unrecognized Talent oh wait 1mo ago i said that. St*pid me!
Ok this is pretty epic though
In México ???? N de M.....Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México....