Northern Pacific 1970 Calendar

Northern Pacific’s last calendar before the BN merger featured a painting of General Electric U33C locomotives, a more advanced and higher-powered version of the U25C shown on the 1967 calendar. This is one of the big (26″x42″) calendars, so it is a photo rather than a scan.

Click image to download a 0.9-MB PDF of this calendar.

The painting is signed Mayo Olmstead (1925-2004), who did illustration work for a number of companies including Beechcraft, General Mills, and Allis-Chalmers. He did pin-up calendars for Brown & Bigalow, covers for Wheaties boxes, and magazine and paperback illustrations. In 1970 he was living in St. Paul, so it is likely that this painting was commissioned by Northern Pacific rather than General Electric.


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