Do The Dew! OK, this review is just a quickie. A 30 second commercial, to be exact. I first saw this ad online while waiting for my YouTube Virtual Railfan camera to fire up (My favorite cams are Skykomish, LaPlata, Fort Madison, Flagstaff and Arvada).
I believe this commercial was heavily “touched up” (as we used to call it) with whatever modern manipulative software they use nowadays.
From a railroad standpoint, the first thing I see are two, orange diesel locomotives leading a freight train. It is a single track line with a dirt road running alongside. They’re in a desert setting with small, hopefully-extinct, volcanic peaks in the background. The orange engines are POSSIBLY BNSF Railway GE units of some kind, or maybe even Genesee and Wyoming short line power.
In other words, this could have been filmed almost anywhere.
Three cars behind the diesels is the neon green Mountain Dew box car — the main “protagonist” of our feature. Very eye-catching. Unfortunately, there’s a startling lack of information about today’s short on the Internet — at least what I can find. So let’s dig a little deeper…
Just for fun, here’s a K-Line O-scale DIET Mountain Dew box car and a Lionel Mountain Dew tank car.
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