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For Santa Fe’s 1981 calendar it used a painting by Frederic Mizen, an artist that Santa Fe relied on heavily for its commercial art in the 1950s and 1960s. We’ve seen his work at least a half a dozen times … Continue reading
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The painting on Santa Fe’s 1979 calendar is by Claudine Morrow, one of the younger painters from whom Santa Fe purchased artworks. She was born in Kansas in 1931 and, as near as I can tell, is currently living in … Continue reading
In 1977, Santa Fe was out of the passenger business but still doing car maintenance work for Amtrak. It sometimes adding pieces of southwest Indian art to passenger car decor, much to Amtrak’s annoyance as the company wanted all of … Continue reading
Here’s a wallet-sized calendar for 1958 featuring, on the side opposite the calendar, a Burlington locomotive passing a billboard showing a map of the railroad. The locomotive shown in the photo is numbered 9945A which, judging from photos, spent much … Continue reading
Entire books have been written about Grif Teller‘s paintings for Pennsylvania Railroad calendars. Teller painted 27 of the calendars between 1928 and 1958, with Pennsylvania turning to other artists during the war years. Click image to download a 1.4-MB PDF … Continue reading
By the time this calendar was produced, the Milwaukee Road had repainted its entire passenger fleet from its traditional maroon-and-orange into Union Pacific’s Armour yellow and harbor mist grey. This scene is supposed to be in Montana’s Sixteen Mile Canyon. … Continue reading
This calendar, unlike yesterday’s, has the right color of trains for an early-’50s Milwaukee Road publication. I don’t see a signature on the illustration. In fact, I think it is a photograph with the people in the foreground heavily retouched … Continue reading
This calendar is an impossibility. The pad says it is for 1952, but the Milwaukee Road didn’t start handling the “City” trains until late 1955. Milwaukee started using the Flexi-Vans shown in the picture in international service in 1960. In … Continue reading
Unlike previous editions, this calendar is spiral bound. The message from the president is now on the outside instead of being tucked inside the cover. By 1987, former marketing Vice-President Darius Gaskins had been promoted to be president and CEO. … Continue reading
This calendar has two railroad photos: a BN train crossing the former Great Northern bridge across Two Medicine Creek in Montana and a BN train crossing the former Northern Pacific bridge across Lake Pend Orville near Sand Point, Idaho. April, … Continue reading