For several years after the GN-NP merger, Burlington Northern continued to issue large (26″x42″) calendars with all months shown on one page. The only real innovation for its first calendar was to put the photo in the middle instead of the top of the page. The color photo, which was taken near the Cascade Rapids (now inundated by Bonneville Dam) after which the Cascade Mountains were named, clearly illustrates why BN called the color it painted its locomotives Cascade green.
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Like its main merger partners (Burlington being a nearly wholly owned subsidiary of GN and NP), BN also issued a smaller version of the same calendar. I mentioned a few days ago that if they wanted the smaller calendar to be an exact duplicate of the larger one in miniature, the smaller one would have to be 16″x26″ instead of the 20″x26″ size used by GN and NP. That’s exactly what BN did, so the above calendar is 16″x26″.
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I also have one of the full-sized calendars. A careful examination will reveal that both use the same cropping of the photo, the same fonts, and so forth so that both calendars match one another except in size. Since the big one is too big for my scanner, the above image was made with a camera.