The 1979 calendar includes just three photos of trains, two of which show DD40s. UP was justifiably proud of these locomotives, which were the largest and most powerful Diesels ever built. However, they were operated for just a few more years after this calendar, as UP decided to focus on off-the-shelf locomotives rather than locos designed to its own specifications.
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Other photos in this calendar include an extremely boring picture of the Oregon coast, yet another picture of Colorado’s San Juan Mountains, Nebraska’s Platte River, and Montana’s Gallatin River (which at one time saw Milwaukee Road trains and buses to Yellowstone Park). Most interesting to me (because I’ve been there) is a photo of Mount Hood from Little Crater Lake Meadow, the site of a small, cold (34°), and deep lake that is considered something of a geological oddity.
It’s worth noting that UP switched paper starting with this calendar. Instead of using the standard cover stock used in its previous calendars back to 1940, it began using paper with a higher clay content, which made it somewhat glossy and probably reduced yellowing with age. It’s too bad it didn’t use such paper back in the 1940s, as most of my calendars from that era are faded and fragile.