Union Pacific acquired Missouri Pacific in 1982 and Missouri-Kansas-Texas in 1988, which means it added Arkansas, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas to its service area. Yet you wouldn’t hardly know it from this calendar, which has one photo … Continue reading
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Union Pacific’s 1992 calendar contained seven pictures of trains, one trite photo of railroad tracks receding into a sunset, and four photos of scenic areas. Ex-C&NW tracks are represented in a photo of a UP train in Illinois. Ex-MP or … Continue reading
As with the 1990 calendar, photos for the 1991 calendar were taken by Union Pacific employees or members of their families. This led to some embarrassment when UP officials discovered, apparently after the calendars were printed, that the March photo … Continue reading
Having closed its photography department, Union Pacific relied on its employees to submit photos for the 1990 calendar. The results are impressive, which may reflect as much on whoever picked the photos as the photographers themselves. Click to download an … Continue reading
This calendar includes three photos of trains, and once again two of them are on the former Western Pacific. Two show some of UP’s 686 SD40-2 locomotives hauling freight trains over ex-WP tracks. The third (below) shows two of Union … Continue reading
This calendar has two train photos on the former Western Pacific, one of the UP in Kansas, and one of the former UP passenger station in Salt Lake City. It may be an indication of how bereft the original Union … Continue reading
Considering that the number of train photos in each year’s calendar had grown from three to six in the previous few years, Union Pacific showed remarkable restraint in including just three train photos in 1987. April has a stunning photo … Continue reading
Half the photos in the 1986 calendar have Union Pacific trains in them, up from a third in most calendars of the previous few years. Admittedly, in at least two of them the trains are merely part of the background … Continue reading
The 1985 calendar has the usual combination of four train and eight purely scenic photos. UP is also balancing its recent acquisition of Western Pacific and Missouri Pacific with two train photos on Western Pacific lines and three photos (one … Continue reading
Union Pacific’s acquisition of the Western Pacific is revealed in January’s photo showing the Feather River Canyon (and the site of a classic photo of the California Zephyr). Sites on the Missouri Pacific are shown in February (the Alamo), March … Continue reading