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Yosemite National Park 2024 Wall Calendar

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John Muir lived in the Yosemite Valley, what would become Yosemite National Park, from 1868 to 1873. The attention he won for Yosemite ensured its place as a National Park. Muir wrote, “Nowhere will you see the majestic operations of nature more clearly revealed beside the frailest, most gentle and peaceful things.” The Yosemite calendar shares the spirit of awe Muir felt so clearly almost 150 years ago.

This 2024 monthly wall calendar features: Large blocks for notes | Superb printing quality | Heavy 100-pound paper | Deluxe 11- by 14-inch size

Yosemite places featured in this edition include:
~ Frosted Bridalveil Fall
~ Fresh snow at Tenaya Creek and Mirror Lake
~ Road in the valley at Yosemite
~ Cathedral Lake and Peak, Yosemite Wilderness
~ El Capitan, Half Dome, and Bridalveil Fall, from Discovery View
~ Morning light awakens the meadow grasses and peeks through the oak trees
~ Vernal Fall on the Merced River
~ El Capitan and the Merced River
~ Giant granite boulders
~ Autumn oaks alongside Tenaya Creek
~ Half Dome reflection at Yosemite National Park
~ Deer in the meadow and Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park

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American Folk Art 2024 Wall Calendar

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A versatile and prolific artist, Jane Wooster Scott has garnered international recognition as one of the finest painters of Americana working today. In American Folk Art, her warm and nostalgic paintings of America’s celebrations and holidays offer a vision of an idealized earlier era. Speaking about her approach to her work Jane says, “I paint the way I do and choose my subjects out of a deep love for my country’s heritage.”
This 2024 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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Ancient Civilizations of the Southwest 2024 Wall Calendar

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The lives of ancient Puebloans who lived in the American southwest are largely mysterious to us. Their legacy is a series of architectural sites that reveal their ingenious building skills, elements of their religious practice, and the art they carved into stone. Ancient Civilizations explores that cultural heritage and celebrates its legacy and preservation.
This 2024 monthly wall calendar features: Large blocks for notes | Superb printing quality | Heavy 100-pound paper | Deluxe 11- by 14-inch size

Locations featured in the 2024 calendar include:
• Hohokam Settlement
Gila Bend, Arizona
• Lower Ruin, Tonto National Monument
Monument, Arizona
• Butler Wash Ruins
Comb Ridge, Utah
• Salado Cliff Dwellings
Roger’s Canyon, Arizona
• River House Ruins, Bears Ears National Monument
San Juan Valley, Utah
• Wukoki Pueblo, Wupatki National Monument
Flagstaff, Arizona
• The Great Kiva, Casa Malpais National Historic Landmark
Springvale, Arizona
• Split Level Ruin. Grand Gulch Primitive Area
Bureau of Land Management, Utah
• Monarch Cave Dwelling, Butler Wash
Bluff, Utah
• Wall Ruin, Mule Canyon
Cedar Mesa, Utah
• Besh Ba Gowah Archaeological Park and Museum
Globe, Arizona
• Petroglyph, Petrified Forest National Park
Holbrook, Arizona

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Warbirds 2024 Wall Calendar

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New battles require new tools, and Warbirds 2024 features a century of air power innovation. The WWI Bristol F.2b led to WWII Spitfires, the U.S. B-17, and the German Bf 109. More speed and power arrived with jet aircraft like the F-15 Strike Eagle, the F-22 Raptor, and the Eurofighter Typhoon. Don’t miss the evolving action in the air!.
This 2024 monthly wall calendar features: Large blocks for notes | Superb printing quality | Heavy 100-pound paper | Deluxe 11- by 14-inch size
Aircraft and events featured in this edition include:
• The mainstay of the U.S. ground attack interdictor force, the F-15-E Strike Eagle has been in service since 1988.
• The epitome of a modern jet-age aircraft, this F-16 Fighting Falcon effortlessly demonstrates the startling power of contemporary combat aircraft.
• Two RAF Spitfires, two of the “few,” take a deep breath and turn in to confront an incoming Luftwaffe raid in 1940.
• Just inches from completing another sortie, a B-17F settles down alongside the strip at Bassingbourn where the 91st Battle Group of the U.S. 9th Air Force operated from October 1942 until 1945.
• Messerschmitt Bf 109s drop down on a pair of RAF Hurricanes in a classic wing-over maneuver to fly out of the sun and attack their prey.
• Operated by more than 12 airlines and eventually the German Luftwaffe from the early 1930s, the Junkers Ju 52 was a groundbreaking transport aircraft.
• The Ryan PT-22 Recruit was the primary U.S. flight trainer at the start of World War II and the first monoplane aircraft for this purpose.
• The Eurofighter Typhoon is the main operational fighting aircraft of the RAF and six other Western nations.
• The Bristol F2b was the original fighter-bomber and saw service in the later part of World War I.
• This P-51 was based at RAF Duxford, and is finished in the livery of the 84th Fighter Squadron.
• The F-22 Raptor is an air-superiority fighter developed for the USAF capable of exceeding Mach 2.0 and operating at heights exceeding 65,000 feet.
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Those Remarkable Trains 2024 Wall Calendar

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This remarkable collection of classic steam locomotives and trains offers thundering power and great style through more than 50 years of railroading. Locomotives include: a Rogers-built Consolidation 2-8-0 from 1905, Boston and Maine Pacific 4-6-2s from 1911, C & N W streamlined Hudson 4-6-4 from 1938, Burlington’s Morning Zephyr, and more. Don’t miss the call!

This 2024 monthly wall calendar features: Large blocks for notes | Superb printing quality | Heavy 100-pound paper | Deluxe 11- by 14-inch size

Locomotives and railroads featured in this edition include:
• Gulf Mobile and Ohio Alco FA-FB-FA set
• DRG Krause-Maffei Diesel Hydraulics
• Burlington’s Morning Zephyr
• N&W pair of Class A 2-6-6-4s
• Western Maryland Baldwin 2-8-0s from 1921
• Boston and Maine Pacific 4-6-2s from 1911
• C & N W streamlined Hudson 4-6-4 from 1938
• Union Pacific Big Boy 4003
• Rogers-built Consolidation 2-8-0 from 1905
• Western Pacific’s California Zephyr

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Streetcars & Trolleys 2024 Wall Calendar

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Before automobiles and buses there were streetcars or trolleys in virtually every American city. Streetcars & Trolleys recalls that era through historic photographs from around the United States. Images from city systems featured include: Baltimore, Chicago, Minneapolis, New Orleans, San Diego, Yonkers, and more.

This 2024 monthly wall calendar features: Large blocks for notes | Superb printing quality | Heavy 100-pound paper | Deluxe 11- by 14-inch size

Streetcar lines and locations featured in this edition include:
√ Chicago, Aurora and Elgin Car 453 has stopped to pick up passengers at Batavia Junction,
Illinois in January 1951. 453 provided local service between Chicago and Aurora, Illinois.
√ Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway Snow Sweeper 024 is working eastbound on Farnham
Street, one of the busiest streets in Omaha, Nebraska on March 25, 1952.
√ Chicago Transit Authority Car 298 is on Chicago Avenue at Kedzie on March 13, 1951.
√ San Diego Electric Railway Car 421 is at Balboa Park in San Diego, California on April 22, 1949.
The rail line shut down a few weeks later.
√ The Third Avenue Railway System (TARS) was built to extra-large proportions. Here is Car 397 coming through downtown Yonkers, New York on July 12, 1952.
√ This is Milwaukee Rapid Transit and Speedrail Company Car 66, seen here at West Junction, Wisconsin on June 14, 1951.
√ Baltimore Transit Car 5745 is on the Ellicott City Shuttle at Catonsville, Maryland on July 1, 1951.
√ Sand Springs Railway Car 72 is arriving at Tulsa, Oklahoma in September 1954.
√ Twin Cities Rapid Transit Lines PCC Car 433 is in the Como Park area of Minneapolis,
Minnesota in September 1953.
√ New Orleans Public Service War Bond Car 832 is on Route 19 at New Orleans, Louisiana on
October 17, 1943.
√ Lehigh Valley Transit Company Car 704 is at the 69th Street Terminal at Allentown,
Pennsylvania on September 7, 1948.
√ Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Car 118 is at the Crandic Yard at Iowa City, Iowa in the winter of 1948.

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Southern Pacific Railroad 2024 Wall Calendar

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Southern Pacific Railroad began with a simple idea: to connect San Francisco and San Diego, California, by rail. A century later, Southern Pacific had become one of the largest railroads in America, with lines that stretched from coast to coast (connecting to New York via Morgan Line steamships) and from the south to the northwest. In 1959, SP moved more ton-miles of freight than any other U.S. railroad. Engines featured here reach back to the era of SP steam, and forward to the diesels of the 1970s.

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Locomotives and trains featured in this edition include:
√ Southern Pacific 4202 and 4440 are double-heading an outbound passenger special at Mission Tower, Los Angeles, California in January 1955. 4202 is a Class AC-8 (4-8-8-2) articulated, and 4440 is a Class GS-4 Northern (4-8-4) built in 1941 by the Lima Locomotive Works.
√ Southern Pacific 6047, an E9A and an E7B with Rock Island E8A and two E7B’s —all EMD locomotives— are leading Train #3, the Golden State Limited through Alhambra, California on February 24, 1967.
√ Southern Pacific 4468, a Class GS-6 Northern (4-8-4) built in 1943 by the Lima Locomotive Works has suffered a failure and has been cut off from its train.
√ Southern Pacific 8288 is leading a southbound consist of “oil cans” up Tehachapi Pass, seen here coming through Woodford, California at 2:17 p.m. on April 2, 1988.
√ Southern Pacific 9120, a Krause Maffei Model ML-4000 diesel hydraulic, assisted by 6450, an FP-7 and an F7B, is on the point of a railfan special at Oakland, California on April 30, 1967.
√ Southern Pacific 3205 is one of ten SDP-45’s purchased in 1967 to bolster SP’s passenger locomotive fleet which had aged substantially.
√ Southern Pacific F7A 6391 in a classic “black widow” paint scheme with an F7A-F7B-F7A are arriving at Los Angeles, California with Train #58, the Owl on July 31, 1960.
√ Southern Pacific 4743 is leading northbound commuter train #136 near Burlingame, California on August 1, 1955.
√ Southern Pacific 6024, a Class PA2, one of 23 painted in “daylight” colors, with another PA2 (6022), has been assigned to handle Train #28, the San Francisco Overland on September 3, 1953.
√ Southern Pacific 4449 and 4447 are double-headed on a passenger special near Palmdale, California on October 17, 1954. Both locomotives are Class GS-4 Northerns (4-8-4).
√ Southern Pacific 1824, one of three Class M-5 Moguls (2-6-0) built by the Sacramento Shops in 1917, has been called to pick up loaded lettuce cars at El Centro, California on November 27, 1954.
√ In late December 1974 near Mojave, California, Southern Pacific Tunnel Motor (SD40T-2, built by EMD) leads four other eastbound units on an early morning freight from Bakersfield.

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Rock Island Railroad 2024 Wall Calendar

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Beginning in 1852, Rock Island built lines from Chicago north to Minneapolis, west to Denver and south to Galveston on more than 10,000 miles of track. Locomotives pictured here range from a steam-era 2-8-0 Mikado built in 1906, an M-50 4-8-2 from 1920, and early diesels, as well as named trains like the Peoria Rocket and more. As the song says, “Get your ticket at the station for the Rock Island Line.”
• Large blocks for notes
• Superbly printed throughout
• Reproduced on quality 100-pound paper
• Deluxe 11 by 14-inch size

Locomotives and trains featured include:
√ Rock Island 400, a Class H15-44 and one of only two purchased from Fairbanks-Morse, was delivered in December 1948.
√ Rock Island 4347 and four other EMD Model GP-38-2s lead a freight at Memphis, TN, on February 19, 1977.
√ Rock Island 1732, an oil-fired Class C-43 Mikado (2-8-0), is leading a westbound freight near Tucumcari, NM, on May 11, 1940. 1732, built in 1906 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, is in its last year of service.
√ Rock Island 646 and another E8A are leading Train #12, the eastbound “Peoria Rocket” making a station stop at Joliet, IL, on April 25, 1969.
√ Rock Island 639 and 632 (both EMD E-7As) are leading eastbound Train 502, the “Peoria Rocket” out of Peoria, IL, headed for Chicago on July 15, 1959.
√ Rock Island “Jet Rocket” (Model LWT-12) 3 is leading a southbound commuter train approaching Roosevelt Road, Chicago, IL, on June 2, 1960.
√ Rock Island 602, a Model TA, one of six built for the Rock Island in 1937 by Electro-Motive Corporation in 1937, is at Council Bluffs, IA in the summer of 1953.
√ Rock Island 1341, an EMD GP18 delivered in January 1960, is leading two other EMD units, both GP-9’s, with a “Royal American Circus” train in tow southbound at Dayton’s Bluff, St. Paul, MN, on August 27, 1969.
√ When it came to commuter trains, Rock Island had a big power selection. Here is 495, one of 15 Model RS-3s received from the American Locomotive Company in September 1950.
√ Rock Island 658 and a B Unit are on the point of Train #10, the eastbound “Corn Belt Rocket” at the Omaha, NE, depot on November 15, 1969.
√ Rock Island 4020, a Class M-50 oil-fired Mountain (4-8-2) built by the Brooks Locomotive Works in 1920, is leaving Denver, CO on November 26, 1949 with an eastbound mixed train
√ Rock Island 93, an EMD Model FTA, sits at Council Bluffs, IA, with an FTB and an F-2A on December 29, 1952.

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Railroading! 2024 Wall Calendar

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Cross the continent and share the drama of “high iron” on Class I railroads like BNSF and CSX, CN, CP, KCS, and UP. High-stepping regional giant Pacific Harbor line shows it muscle, while Amtrak blasts through snow in the east and runs through sunshine in the west. Railroading! includes descriptive commentary about the featured railroads, rolling stock, and 24 full-color photographs. All aboard!

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Locomotives and railroads featured in this edition include:
√ High above Lake Champlain at a location called Red Rock in Willsboro, New York, Canadian Pacific Train 228 is running from Montreal, Canada to Saratoga Springs, New York.
√Running through Whitehall, New York, Train 228 passes a pair of EMD GP20C-ECO engines on Train G53, a local running between Crown Point and turning at Saratoga Springs.
√ Originally built by Northern Pacific, this line follows the Clark Fork of the Columbia River in Montana that became Burlington Northern in 1970 before being spun off to regional railroad Montana Rail Link in October 1987.
√ A BNSF eastbound grain empty rumbles across Bridge 55 at Trout Creek, Montana powered by a trio of General Electric locomotives: 6060 an ES44AC; 4277 and 4202 both ES44C4s.
√ Led by shiny 3054, EMD SD70ACe-T4, a Union Pacific stack train departs Green River, Wyoming, after a crew change and begins its westbound trip on UP’s Evanston Subdivision.
√ A Union Pacific coal train designated CEYPS (Energy Mine to Public Service in Denver) curves past milepost 22 just west of the siding at Eisele (Clay), Colorado.
√ Kansas City Southern Train YPA108 led by 2840 and 3151, EMD GP22ECO’s, hauls a consist of empty coke hoppers past a division of the Motiva refinery in Port Neches, Texas.
√ Union Pacific 1375 has for several months been assigned to the local that originates in Anaheim. The engine has special appeal because it is one of only three GP40P-2s built by EMD (in this case former Southern Pacific 7602, originally SP 3199).
√ Union Pacific local LOA32, an 11-car train behind 1375 and 1083, a GP60 (ex-UP 1953, née-SSW 9651) makes its way on January 12, 2022 down Metrolink’s Orange Sub.
√ Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr traces the Colorado River in spectacular Ruby Canyon just east of Utaline, Colorado.
√ Amtrak 160, a GE P42DC, was painted in a variant of Amtrak’s Phase III paint scheme that was applied to just 20 GE Dash 8-32BWH (P32BWH) locomotives delivered in 1991.
√ Santa Fe 5704, an SD45-2 recently restored to its Bicentennial glory, sits at Kansas City, Missouri’s Union Station.
√ A Canadian National taconite pellet train arrives at United Taconite’s Fairlane processing plant near Forbes, Minnesota.
√ A solid set of General Motors-powered units are seen at Adolph, Minnesota, leading a taconite train to the Lake Superior ore docks in Duluth. Leader 5349, an SD40-2W, features the early safety-cab design pioneered by Canadian National in the 1970s.
√ A pair of CSX Electro-Motive SD70ACe-T4 units leads a train of covered hoppers at Mulberry, Florida, deep in the railroad’s busy “Bone Valley” phosphate mining region.
√ Three sturdy 3,000 horsepower EMD GP40-2 road-switchers are leading a freight train at Springfield, Massachusetts, in August 2020.
√ Skirting the banks of the Columbia River, BNSF Railway intermodal train S-LPCSEA1-20 heads from Chicago’s Logistics Park to Seattle, Washington.
√ Kicking up some autumn leaves as it rounds the big curve in White Salmon, Washington, is BNSF Railway train C-SXMRBG3-53.
√ Pacific Harbor Line 66, a MotivePower MP20C-3, lugs a long string of loaded intermodal cars, as Train YPNY13-27, from Terminal Island as it begins its movement across the Badger Bridge.
√ Pacific Harbor Line 20, on train YPSW24-05, the Reyes switcher, backs down PHL’s Wilmington Lead in the Wilmington neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
√ Amtrak’s Vermonter blasts through the snow at a crossing in Charlestown, New Hampshire on December 25, 2022.
√ The southbound Amtrak Vermonter Train 55 is rolling through the village of South Royalton, Vermont. Engine 184 is a 4,250 hp GE Genesis P42DC painted in Phase IV heritage livery to celebrate Amtrak’s 40th anniversary in 2011.

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New York Central Railroad 2024 Wall Calendar

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In the early years of rail building, a series of lines grew up between New York City, Albany, Schenectady, Utica, Syracuse, Rochester, and Buffalo, linking the Great Lakes and the Midwest to the Hudson River and the world. Brought together in 1853 as the New York Central Railroad, the line eventually served half of America’s population, moving passengers in the northeast between New York, Chicago, and Detroit, or from Boston to St. Louis.

This 2024 monthly wall calendar features: Large blocks for notes | Superb printing quality | Heavy 100-pound paper | Deluxe 11- by 14-inch size

Locomotives and trains featured in this edition include:
• New York Central 2538, a General Electric Model U-25B and two U30B’s, are heading for New York City, seen here at Spuyten Duyvil, New York on January I, 1968.
• New York Central owned a multitude of switch engines. They also had eight rather obscure seventy ton “critters” built from 1940 to 1942.
• New York Central 5934 and 5791, a GP-9 and a GP7, road switchers built by EMD, are on a passenger train at Granite City, Illinois on October 16, 1963.
• Brand new New York Central 6000, the first of 25 Class S-1a Niagara (4-8-4) engines, is being serviced at the Englewood, Illinois roundhouse in mid-April 1945.
• New York Central 3140, a Class L-4b Mohawk (4-8-2) built in 1943 by the Lima Locomotive Works, is leading a westbound freight out of Poughkeepsie, New York on August 8, 1946.
• New York Central 4020 and 4025 are backing Train #315, a mail and express train, into St. Louis, Missouri Union Station on June 21, 1966. 4020 is an E-7A in an E-8A body.
• New York Central 8276, a 1,600 horsepower Alco/General Electric Model RS-3 Road Switcher, is on the Harlem Division with eastbound commuter train #960 arriving at Chatham, New York on June 20, 1965.
• New York Central 4052, an E-8A with an E-7B second unit (both are EMD locomotives) leads Train #51, the westbound Empire State Express as it passes under the Bear Mountain Bridge on August 3, 1963.
• New York Central 1600, the first of only four EMD Model FTA’s owned by NYC, is leading a freight at Cleveland, Ohio on August 15, 1964.
• New York Central 5451, one of fifty Class J-3a Hudsons (4-6-4), built by the American Locomotive Company in 1937, is hitting the track pans at Chesterton, Indiana with a westbound mail train in October 1945.
• New York Central 3817, a matched A-B-A set of Baldwin “sharknoses,” so named because of their appearance, are waiting a call at the Detroit, Michigan engine terminal in August 1962.
• Here Niagara 4015 is rolling a westbound passenger train through Buffington, Indiana in the winter of 1947. 4015 and its train are about one-half hour east of Chicago’s La Salle Street Station.

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Pennsylvania Railroad 2024 Wall Calendar

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Chartered in Pennsylvania in 1846, construction of the Pennsylvania Railroad began in 1847, and the first all-rail line reached Pittsburgh in 1852. Eventually PRR connected Chicago with Washington, D.C. Pennsylvania Railroad recalls the unique engines and trains of “The Standard Railroad of the World.”

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Locomotives and trains featured in this edition include:
• This is the original American Freedom Train, seen here on the Pennsylvania Railroad at Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The seven-car
train carried original copies of the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and the United States Constitution.
• Pennsylvania Railroad 6164, Texas Type (2-10-4), is leading a 148-car eastbound freight at 71st Street, Chicago, Illinois, on April 27, 1952.
• Nearly-new Pennsylvania Railroad 9782 (Electro-Motive F7A-F7B-F7A, a 4,500-horsepower set,) is leading a westbound freight through Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, in the summer of 1951.
• Pennsylvania Railroad 6302, an American Locomotive Company Class C-628, is a point helper on a westbound mail train about two miles west of Horseshoe Curve, Pennsylvania, on April 6, 1964.
• Pennsylvania Railroad 4922 and seven other Class GG-1 Motors are at Sunnyside Yard, New York, on May 25, 1968.
• Pennsylvania Railroad 2219, 2512, and 2513 (GP-30 and two U25Bs) are on a westbound freight along the Susquehanna River at Duncannon, Pennsylvania, on June 10, 1965.
• Pennsylvania Railroad 5806 (an EMD E8A and two E7As) are rolling along the Susquehanna River, passing View Tower at Duncannon, Pennsylvania, with a westbound mail and passenger train in July 1964.
• Pennsylvania Railroad 4917, a Class GG-1 Motor, leads Train Number #139, The Pelican, through Morrisville, Pennsylvania, on August 15, 1953.
• Pennsylvania Railroad 5791, an EMD E8A-E8B set, is running light at 14th Street near St. Louis Union Station, Missouri. Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy 9925 (an EMD E7A) with three-car Train #43, a St.
Louis to Chicago daily passenger train, sits beside it on September 2, 1954.
• Pennsylvania Railroad 2230 and a New York Central unit lead a westbound freight out of the tunnel at Gallitzin, Pennsylvania, in October 1968.
• Pennsylvania Railroad Train #32, the eastbound St. Louisan, is traveling through Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on June 16, 1957. Trains 32 and 33, the eastbound and westbound St. Louisans, provided daily service between New York City and St. Louis starting in 1913.
• Pennsylvania Railroad 1398 is one of 238 Class B-6sa and B-6sb locomotives built by the Juniata Shops during a 10-year period from 1916 to 1926.

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New England Seasons 2024 Wall Calendar

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New England Seasons invites you to share a year in our classic corner of America: a blanket of snow transforms the character of Salisbury beach in Massachusetts, Atlantic waves crash against the rocky Narragansett coast in Rhode Island, brilliant autumn color blankets the shoulders of Table Mountain in New Hampshire, and a “tree” of Maine lobster pot bouys lights the way to a New Year! Be a part of every season in 24 full-color images.

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New England places featured in this edition include:
NE Seasons 2024
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January
≈ Winter offers a respite from the crowds at Salisbury Beach State Reservation in Salisbury, Massachusetts. The expansive beach, which extends from the mouth of the Merrimack River to the New Hampshire border, is the usual attraction, but winter curbs enthusiasm for bathing in the Atlantic Ocean. Sometimes just listening to the ocean is its own reward.
≈ The sun breaks through the snow-draped limbs of the maritime forest (inset) on Cape Cod in Sandwich, Massachusetts.
February
≈ Snow and clouds top Mount Mansfield seen from Fletcher, Vermont. The tallest peak in the Green Mountain state at 4,395 feet, Mansfield is a focus of recreation throughout the year, but especially for winter skiing at the Stowe Mountain Resort.

≈ Snow blankets the spruce forest in Walden, Vermont (inset) where lumbering has long played an economic role. In 1877, however, Stephen Meader established a feather-duster shop that produced 600 dozen turkey feather dusters annually, the largest maker in the state.

March
≈ The scenic Jackson Village Covered Bridge crosses the Ellis River at the Wentworth Golf Club in Jackson, New Hampshire. The white tees on the 479-yard 9th hole are adjacent to the bridge, which provides a crossing to the fairway after your drive.

≈ Birders, boaters, and fisherman are drawn to the Pontook Reservoir (inset), a 379-acre impoundment on the Adroscoggin River in Dummer, New Hampshire. The reservoir was created when the river was dammed to generate hydroelectric power. The facility, owned by Brookfield Renewable U.S., produces 11 megawatts of electricity.

April
≈ Sunrise at Sapowet Marsh Wildlife Management Area in Tiverton, Rhode Island awakens a host of birds which occupy the 138-acre tidal salt marsh that empties into the Sakonnet River. The marsh is home to the Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow, along with American Woodcock, Ring-necked Pheasant and a variety of migratory passerines.

≈ These entrance gates (inset) open to the tree-lined drive at the “The Orchard,” a Gilded Age “cottage” in Newport, Rhode Island. The house was built in 1871 after the design of an 18th century Swiss country house. It boasts the largest private swimming pool in Rhode Island.

May
≈ Surrounded by blossoming spring flowers, this building in Watertown, Connecticut is a fine example of Greek Revival architecture that was popular during the first half of the 19th century. Seeking a more “democratic” approach to design after the War of 1812, architects found inspiration in the classical Greek Parthenon. As in this example, typical features include a triangular pediment finished with flush boards and a window above a broad entablature which is supported by wide pilasters on the corners of the building. Pilasters take the place of real columns, as do the decorative lintels above the windows and doors that would be necessary in a stone building.

≈ Spring is underway (inset) in Middlefield, Connecticut, one of the last towns established (1866) by the state. Today the town is known as the home of Lyman Orchards established in 1741, where, in addition to all-things apple, you can play golf on one of two 18-hole courses designed respectively by Robert Trent Jones, Sr. and Gary Player.

June
≈ Blooming lilacs frame historic (1896) Popham Chapel on Atkins Bay at the mouth of the Kennebec River in Phippsburg, Maine, the site of the first attempted English settlement in New England in 1607. The colonists built the first ship, Virginia, in the New World, but failing to find gold, or the Northwest Passage, in 1608 they sailed for England.

≈ This grassy field of bright, spring dandelions (inset) would have looked delicious to the herds of sheep in Farmington, Maine at its incorporation in 1794. The town was among the largest wool producers in New England and a regional center of manufacturing and trade.

July
≈ The fine beaches in Narragansett, Rhode Island have attracted summer people to the town for decades, and they continue to arrive each year. Between 1880 and 1900 a group of Shingle Style houses were built along Ocean Road by noted architects including McKim, Mead & White and William Gibbons Preston. Their owners continue to enjoy wonderful ocean views.

≈ Fogland Beach (inset) is located on the Sakonnet River in Tiverton, Rhode Island, The town-operated public beach is a favorite location for windsurfing and kayaking.

August
≈ First light at Mystic Seaport Maritime Museum, in Mystic, Connecticut reveals the masts and rigging of the Joseph Conrad, and the Charles W. Morgan, ships in the collection of the largest maritime museum in America. The Mystic Seaport Light built in 1966 is a replica of the 1901 Brant Point Light. Videos available inside the light tell the story of American lighthouses.

≈ This bucolic corn field (inset) is in Thompson, Connecticut which is located at the very corner of the state. The town is home to the Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park. Once known as the “Indianapolis of the East,” the oval track was the first asphalt-paved racing course in America.

September
≈ There is no denying the visual appeal that fall brings Reading, Vermont. Still, there are fewer people living here now than in 1790, but there may be more cows. The Jenne Farm is wildly popular among art directors who have featured it on magazine covers, dare we mention calendars, and it even played a role in the film Forrest Gump.

≈ Agriculture has been an essential part of the economy in Townshend, Vermont (inset) since the first English settlers arrived in 1761. Today the rewards of Sugar maple trees include their brilliant fall color and the delicious rewards their taps deliver each spring.

October
≈ Table Mountain in Albany, New Hampshire is one of the peaks in White Mountain National Forest rising to a height of 2,610 feet. In addition to fall color, a moderately demanding two-mile hike on Attitash Trail offers rewarding views of Mount Chocorua and peaks along the Kancamagus Highway.

≈ Red Maples in fall regalia (inset) rim Lower Baker Pond in Orford, New Hampshire. Upper and Lower Baker Ponds are connected by Pond Brook and lie at the headwaters of the Pemigewasset watershed which flows through the White Mountains and into the Merrimack River.

November
≈ Take a walk in the woods and this is an example of what you may find. Timing is also helpful. Choose a fall day after a dusting of snow but before all the autumn color has fallen. This rocky stream is located in Hawley, Massachusetts.

≈ The southeast view of the Hoosic River Valley (inset) seen from Mount Greylock State Reservation in Adams, Massachusetts. The Hoosic River runs for 76 miles and empties into the Hudson River. Streams in the river’s watershed run from the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts, the Green Mountains of Vermont and the Taconic Mountains.

December
≈ This illuminated tree of lobster pot bouys suggests that the fisherman in Wells, Maine have had a successful year and are taking December off to celebrate. The harbor in Wells is an engineering feat arranged by the Army Corps of Engineers. From the Atlantic Ocean boaters sail past two parallel stone jetties more than 2,000 feet long that create a harbor entrance that is 400 feet wide.

≈ Rather less creative (inset) than in Wells, the lobster man in Owls Head, Maine whose traps are marked by red and green buoys has taken a casual approach to winter and left his gear in a tangle. Maybe everyone has rushed off to hear a performance of Diversions for Piano and Orchestra composer Benjamin Britten finished writing here at the Owls Head Inn in 1941.

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