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Running the B&O meant big trains operating through challenging terrain, but the railroad made it work with smart engineering and impressive steam. This edition of the calendar features a range of engines and named trains from “Big Six” engine 6222, a Santa Fe Class S-1a 2-10-2, and Baldwin-built engine 7619, a Class EM-1 2-8-8-4 “war baby,” to engine 4496, a Class Q4-b Mikado 2-8-2 built in 1922, and engine 5308, originally named President Harrison, a Pacific type 4-6-2 built in 1927. Ride with the B&O all through 2023.

This 2023 monthly wall calendar features: Large blocks for notes | Superb printing quality | Heavy 100-pound paper | Deluxe 11- by 14-inch size

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Between 1918 and 1960, Canadian National Railway relied on steam locomotives to move people and freight from coast to coast. Celebrate the era of steam in these vintage photographs. CNR locomotives featured here include: 5125, a Pacific 4-6-2; 6071, a Mountain-type 4-8-2; 6404, a streamlined Northern 4-8-4; and much more great steam on what was known as “The People’s Railway.”

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The longest railroad in the world in 1856, Illinois Central rails crossed Illinois, and eventually connected Chicago and Lake Michigan to New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico. Locomotives and trains featured here range from a Mikado (2-8-2) built by Baldwin in 1911, and a Mountain-type 4-8-2 built by the Central’s own shops, to the City of New Orleans departing Chicago in 1960, the streamlined Green Diamond in 1968, and more. Celebrate the “Mainline of Mid-America.”

This 2023 monthly wall calendar features: Large blocks for notes | Superb printing quality | Heavy 100-pound paper | Deluxe 11- by 14-inch size

Locomotives featured in this edition include:
• Illinois Central 2119, a Mikado (2-8-2), is leading a freight into Kankakee, IL on January 23, 1956
• Illinois Central 2500 is moving through the yard at Centralia, IL on December 4, 1956. Illinois Central owned 56 of these Mountain type (4-8-2) locomotives, built by the Paducah Shops in 1937 through 1952
• Illinois Central 4015 and 4001 (E-7A leads—E6A trails; both are EMD locomotives) are leading Train 14, the eastbound Land O’ Corn, making a station stop at Broadview, IL on April 17, 1962
• Illinois Central 1447, a Mikado (2-8-2), is getting its feet wet during the great Mississippi River flood in April 1950
• Illinois Central 2809, a ponderous Santa Fe (2-10-2) type, complete with an auxiliary water car, is at Centralia, Illinois on April 25, 1957.
• It is June 1960 at Central Station, Chicago, IL, and 4025 is preparing to head south with Train 1, the City of New Orleans, scheduled to depart at 7:50 a.m. The two units assigned to this train are 4025, an E-8A, and an accompanying E-8B, both EMD locomotives
• Illinois Central 4001 is on Train 21, the southbound Green Diamond at the Springfield, IL depot in July 1968. 4001 is an EMD E-6A. The Green Diamond went into service in 1936 as a daily Chicago to St. Louis, MO train. This would be Illinois Central’s first streamlined train.
• Illinois Central 1350A and 1350B, a Class TR1A and TR1B, are switching at Madison, IL on July 18, 1957
• IC steam on display at the roundhouse in Central City, KY on October 27, 1957 are locomotives 1658, 1518, 1572, all 2-8-2 Mikados, 2721, a 2-10-2, and 1528, another Mikado
• Illinois Central 2304, a 4-6-2-Pacific, is leading a local freight at Flanagan, IL on October 10, 1957
• Illinois Central 3502, a 0-8-0 switcher, one of 70 built by Baldwin Locomotive Works and Lima Locomotive Works between 1921 and 1929
• Illinois Central 2550, a Mountain (4-8-2) built by the Paducah Shops in 1941

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Chartered in 1849, the Milwaukee Road eventually extended its tracks across the northern tier of the United States to the Pacific Ocean. Noted for its innovative electric motive power and passenger service, the line’s successes were overshadowed by weak management and strong competition. By Spring 1982, all Milwaukee lines from the West Coast to Minnesota had been abandoned, and in 1986 remaining Midwest lines were absorbed into the Soo Line. Today CP Rail operates what remains.

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Locomotives and named trains featured in this edition include:
• Milwaukee Road 100 is on the point of the northbound Morning Hiawatha ready to leave Milwaukee for Minneapolis, MN by way of Portage and La Crosse on September 28, 1941. This Class F-7 locomotive was built by the American Locomotive Company in August 1938
• Most railroads had an oddball piece of motive power or two: here is the Milwaukee Road entry. It is running light
through the yard at Milwaukee on August 25, 1955. This is 5900, a streamlined motorcar, referred to as the Bulldog
• Milwaukee Road Bi-polar Motor E-3 is the power for the Olympian Hiawatha leaving Seattle, WA for Tacoma on July 16, 1951.
• Milwaukee Road 572, a six-axle RSD-5 built in 1953 by the American Locomotive Company, in concert with two other Alcos, (both RSC-3s: 594 and 596), are on a local freight at Sparta, WI on April 8, 1972
• Milwaukee Road 102, a streamlined Baltic (Milwaukee referred to their 4-6-4’s as Baltics instead
of Hudsons), an F-7 Class locomotive, is leading the Northbound Chippewa at Rondout, IL on September 19, 1948.
• Motors E-23B and E-23C on Train #16, the eastbound Olympian Hiawatha, at Tacoma, WA on May 4, 1958.
• Milwaukee Road E-73 and E-79 are on an incredibly long eastbound work train at Donald, MT, 17 miles east of Butte on July 4, 1973
• Milwaukee Road Electric Switcher E-82 has the pans up and is working at Deer Lodge, MT in
August 1965
• Milwaukee Road 548 is leading a transfer freight through St. Paul, MN on July 25, 1971. The first three units in this seven-unit consist are Fairbanks-Morse H16-66 “baby trainmasters”, followed by an F7A-F7B-GP9 and an SD24 (all EMD power)
• Milwaukee Road 17B, an EMD E7A, a 2,000-horsepower unit, is at Council Bluffs, IA on October 29, 1955
• Milwaukee Road 1060, a Class B-4 Ten-Wheeler built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1902, is on a local freight at Sauk Prairie, WI in September 1953
• Milwaukee Road 93C is leading Train #101, the Afternoon Hiawatha out of Chicago’s Union Station
at 1:02PM on June 1, 1953

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