We’ve previously seen a 1949 UP calendar, but that copy was missing the page showing the December 1948 and 1949 full-year calendars. Also, when I wrote about that calendar, I was under the mistaken impression that UP changed the size … Continue reading
This 1941 calendar completes my collection of UP calendars between 1940 and 1996, the years they came out in this format. This calendar is 12-1/2″x22-3/4″, the same size as most other UP calendars during those years. However, my 1942, 1943, … Continue reading
This calendar appears to have been printed before December 7, 1941 — at least, it has a page for that month — yet the cover suggests the Union Pacific was already prepared for war as part of the “strategic middle … Continue reading
The little girl on the 1963 calendar hasn’t aged in two years and is still carrying the same fresh-faced Teddy bear, whose eyes always seem to be looking in the same direction as the girl. Her slip is showing beneath … Continue reading
Starting at least as early as the 1930s and continuing at least through the 1960s, the Milwaukee Road had a beautiful series of illustrations that it used for calendars and other advertising. This was used on the 1963 calendar; unfortunately, … Continue reading
This calendar, whose scans were contributed by the same Streamliner Memories reader who provided the Frisco calendars last July, measures about 8-1/4″ by 10-3/4″, perhaps slightly cut down from 8-1/2″ by 11″ stock. The choice of green ink on eye-searing … Continue reading
Here are two more Frisco calendars from the Karl Poythress collection. Both show one truck from a freight car with the slogan, “When your freight goes Frisco, your freight goes!” Click image to download a 389-KB PDF of this calendar. … Continue reading
For the 1966 and 1968 calendars, General Electric U25B locomotives replaced the F3 locomotives that appeared on the 1964 calendar. Frisco had also painted its freight locomotives in a red-and-white scheme reminiscent of its no-longer-operating red-and-silver passenger streamliners. This was … Continue reading
These might be called desk calendars: slightly bigger than 7″x9″, they are too big to be pocket calendars and too small to be wall calendars. The 1955 edition has a resplendent image of a red-and-silver passenger train — either the … Continue reading
The image in Santa Fe’s 1982 painting depicts a Navajo hogan or lodge. The painting is by D. (for Duncan) Alanson Spencer (1911-1999). He was born and trained in Los Angeles, where he painted scenic backdrops for MGM and other … Continue reading
