The only passenger content in this calendar is Chessie, C&O’s symbol of its comfortable passenger trains. In 1933, C&O paid Austrian artist Guido Gruenwald five whole dollars for the rights to use his drawing of a sleepy cat; Gruenwald died … Continue reading
Union Pacific’s 1971 calendar was back to twelve pages, with no extras showing December 1970 or the full year for 1971 and 1972. Those twelve pages have all-new photos, none of which appeared on any menus before Amtrak took over … Continue reading
After the enlarged Howard Fogg calendar of 1969, UP returned to the 12-1/2″x23″ format in 1970. Most of the photos were new views of familiar territory. Instead of a geyser, the Yellowstone photo showed the Firehole River. Instead of Bryce … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Union Pacific redesigned its calendar in 1968, giving the name of the railroad and its logo much more prominence; replacing sans serif typefaces with more modern-looking sans serif typefaces; and deemphasizing the previous- and next-month calendars at the bottom of … Continue reading
The opening photo of the 1967 calendar shows a freight train pulled by GP-35s, but the the next photo (for the year 1967) shows the City of Portland in eastern Idaho. The train in the picture still has a dome … Continue reading
My 1966 calendar has two eastern scenes: the Liberty Bell in March and Chicago at sunset looking up the Chicago River for September. The corresponding photos for the western version were of Sun Valley and Mount Rainier with Tipsoo Lake … Continue reading
My 1965 calendar is the western version, which has a photo of Zion Canyon on the March page and Mount Hood on the September page. The eastern version has Gettysburg Battlefield on the March page and the White House with … Continue reading
Four of the photos on the eastern edition of the 1964 calendar differ from the western edition. The eastern version shows the White House, Chicago, West Point, and Stowe, Vermont. The western version shows Old Faithful, a scene in Rocky … Continue reading
I have both the eastern and western versions of UP’s 1963 calendar. My western version is somewhat fragile, so I used that as an excuse to scan only the pages with the uniquely western photos, and used my scans of … Continue reading
