Union Pacific 1969 Calendar

UP’s centennial calendar was the largest and arguably the most beautiful calendar it ever issued. To commemorate the anniversary of the Golden Spike ceremony, the railroad commissioned Howard Fogg — then the nation’s most-famous railroad artist — to do sixteen paintings of the history of the railroad. To accommodate the wide paintings, the usual 12-1/2″x23″ calendar was expanded to 18″x24″.


Click image to download a 43.2-MB PDF of this calendar.

Several scenes show passenger trains, including June’s Harriman-era Overland Limited, August’s contemporary City of Los Angeles, and December’s M-10000 on the City of Portland route. But most show freight, and there is no pitch to ride passenger trains or paintings of any national parks or other destinations that could be reached on a Union Pacific streamliner.

Although this is a popular calendar, it is also very abundant as UP did an extra-large press run and gave away calendars for many years after the end of 1969. If you are a collector, you can probably get a near-mint edition of the 1969 calendar for less money than a used and worn 1970 calendar.


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