Union Pacific continues its soft sell with only one photo of a train and eleven photos of beautiful scenes that aren’t necessarily close to UP rail lines. These include a colorful sunset photo on the Oregon coast, a city park … Continue reading
It’s 1972, the first full year without Union Pacific passenger trains, and the railroad’s calendar is full of scenic photos of places that aren’t necessarily destinations for those former trains. Of the twelve photos in this calendar, only one shows … Continue reading
I previously posted a 1971 calendar, but then found another copy and realized the one I scanned was missing some pages. UP calendars in the 1950s and 1960s had 16 pages, one for each month plus pages for December of … Continue reading
Here’s another western version of a Union Pacific calendar previously shown here. In this case, only two months are different: March (shown below) and September. Click to download an 31.0-MB PDF of this calendar. One of the toughest things about … Continue reading
I’ve already posted the western version of UP’s 1965 calendar, and was surprised to find I also have the eastern version hidden away with other calendars. Only two pages — March and September — are different from the western version, … Continue reading
Union Pacific’s 1962 calendar that I’ve previously shown here had four eastern scenes: the Lincoln Memorial, Mount Vernon, a Midwestern farm, and Worcester, Vermont. So I was eager to see what photos would replace these in the western edition of … Continue reading
As previously noted, Union Pacific’s 1961 calendar came in two versions: in the version previously shown here, the March, May, September, and November photos showed eastern scenes. This one substitutes western scenes for those months, with the March page shown … Continue reading
The 1960 calendar previously shown here included four scenes from the eastern United States: the White House, Niagara Falls, Chicago, and New England. This edition substitutes western scenes on those pages: Zion, Yellowstone Falls, the Morman Temple, and a New … Continue reading
At least nine of the scenic photos in this calendar also found their way onto Union Pacific menus. The November photo showing California orange groves also appears on the January, 1950 calendar. Click image to download a 24.6-MB PDF of … Continue reading
Every railfan has favorite railroads, and Chesapeake & Ohio is not one of mine. Robert Young tried to do some interesting things with, but Robert Young was a crazy man whose connection to reality was somewhat tenuous. I probably don’t … Continue reading
