BN’s 1979 calendar fit the same Union Pacific format used in 1978, but instead of hiring commercial photographers, the railway relied on an employee photo contest to illustrate each month. To commemorate this, the company added a cover which (like UP calendars of the 1950s and 1960s) added four pages to the publication. Unlike UP’s calendars, BN wasted the opportunity provided by those extra four pages.
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The front cover looks distinguished enough with its hand lettering (instead of a computer typeface), but why did they choose to print it in brown? It’s a very nice shade of brown, but still, brown is boring. As we will see tomorrow, the company rectified this mistake on the 1980 calendar. Continue reading