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Navy 2024 Wall Calendar

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The Navy calendar is a tribute to the men and women who have fought to protect our nation, to deter aggression, and to maintain freedom of the seas. Navy and Marine Corps action over the past 248 years is represented here in full-color paintings. Significant events in naval history are listed in every month. Sales of the calendar benefit the Naval Order of the United States. Anchor’s aweigh!

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

Images featured in this edition include:
≈ The destroyer Hawkins (DD 873) transits the waters between Corsica and Sardinia during one of a series of Mediterranean deployments with the Sixth Fleet. Destroyer Sailors think of their ships as “workhorses of the Fleet,” and Hawkins’ thirty-plus years of service across the Atlantic, the Caribbean, the Pacific, and the Mediterranean give evidence of this proud claim.
≈ A Los Angeles-class attack submarine of Submarine Group Seven at sea, with a Mystic-class rescue submersible stowed in a cradle on her deck. Armed with Harpoon and Tomahawk missiles as well as antisubmarine torpedoes, newer Los Angeles-class submarines can also lay mines. Retractable bowmounted diving planes let them operate under ice.
≈ An embarked combat artist shares his impression of an enemy ship torpedoed and sunk by a surfaced submarine in a night attack. Since radar was only making its first appearances during World War II, this “boat” is being directed by the eyes and optics of her crew.
≈ Many artists in the Far East made a good living painting pictures of naval and merchant ships for sale. An unknown artist did this likeness of Olympia during her 1895-1898 service as flagship of the Asiatic Fleet. In 1898 she flew the flag of Commodore George Dewey during the battle of Manila Bay, and is preserved as a memorial at Philadelphia. U.S. Navy ships were painted white with buff upperworks from the 1890s through 1908 to make crew spaces a bit more livable in those days before air conditioning.
≈ Explosions, flares, and tracers light up the night in the crisscrossing channels of the Rung Sat swamp, the strategic area in Vietnam between Saigon and the South China Sea. An inshore patrol craft (PCF), popularly known as a “Swift boat,” engages Viet Cong ambushers with machine guns, small arms, and an 81mm mortar.
≈ A trick of the atmosphere makes gunfire-support destroyers appear to be blowing smoke rings over the bitterly-contested landing beaches at Peleliu during the Pacific campaign of World War II. Ships’ gunfire and carrier planes backed up assault landings and lent powerful artillery support to troops fighting ashore.
≈ The ammunition ship Firedrake (AE 14) replenishes an aircraft carrier of Task Force 77 in the icy waters off North Korea. Mobile logistics lessons earned during World War II would reemphasize their value off Korea and, later, off Vietnam.
≈ A CH-53 heavy-lift helicopter stands ready aboard USS Dubuque (LPD 8) as plans are formulated for Operation End Sweep, the clearance of mines from North Vietnamese waters after the signing of the Paris accords. Designed as amphibious troop carriers, the size and power of the CH-53 suited it for the new task of airborne minesweeping.
≈ A French fleet, under Admiral Comte de Grasse, defeats Admiral Thomas Graves’ British fleet attempting to relieve Lord Charles Cornwallis’ besieged army at Yorktown near the end of the Revolutionary War. Cut off from reinforcement and supplies, Cornwallis surrenders to the American- French army under General George Washington and General Comte de Rochambeau. De Grasse’s success made Cornwallis’ surrender, and American independence, inevitable.
≈ For more than a quarter-century the A-4 Skyhawk, affectionately called “Heinemann’s hot rod” in tribute to its principal designer, played a key role in Navy and Marine Corps aviation. The Skyhawk proved its worth in Southeast Asia, carrying a major share of combat operations in North and South Vietnam. Nearly three thousand Skyhawks were produced, serving in both U.S. and foreign air forces. Forrestal (CVA 59), the first “super carrier” was not only
the first aircraft carrier built after World War II, it was also the first built specifically to operate jet aircraft.
≈ The double-turreted monitor Onondaga saw Civil War service in the James River, where she supported Federal troops advancing on Richmond. Laid up after Appomattox, she was sold to her builder who, in turn, sold her to the French Navy. This artist’s rendition illustrates the vulnerability of Civil War monitors. With freeboard measured in inches, they worked well on rivers and in coastal waters but were poorly suited to blue-water operations.
≈ The artist portrays a timeless scene: a sailor stands his watch in the hours before morning with moonlight his only company. Perhaps his thoughts turn to loved ones at home as he looks out across the expanse of ocean and listens to the sighing of the wind.

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Milwaukee Road 2024 Wall Calendar

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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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Milwaukee Road Electric Switcher E-81 is using a trolley pole rather than a pantograph for power as it switches in the snow at Butte, MT, on April 27, 1958. Four of these small switchers (Class ES-2’s) were on the roster, numbered E-80 through E-83.

Locomotives and named trains featured in this edition include:
• Milwaukee Road Electric Switcher E-81 is using a trolley pole rather than a pantograph for power as it switches in the snow at Butte, MT, on April 27, 1958. Four of these small switchers (Class ES-2’s) were on the roster, numbered E-80 through E-83.
• Milwaukee Road “Erie built” Engine 9-A is sitting at the Milwaukee, WI, depot on February 9, 1952.
• Milwaukee Road 426, a Class L2-b Mikado (2-8-2), built in 1923 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, is leading a freight at Techny, IL, on March 27, 1947.
• Milwaukee Road Bipolar Motor E-4, leading Train #15, the westbound Olympian Hiawatha is making a station stop at Deer Lodge, MT, on April 29, 1958. Motor E-4 was one of five Class EP-2 Bipolar Motors built by General Electric in 1918.
• Milwaukee Road’s “Little Joe” Class consisted of 12 Motors, all purchased from General Electric in 1950. Motor E-72 with another “Little Joe” trailing have arrived at Avery, ID, with a westbound freight in September 1970.
• Milwaukee Road 99-C and an E-9B are blowing past the tower at Rondout, IL, at about 90 miles per hour southbound with Train #58, The Fast Mail on June 19, 1967.
• Milwaukee Road 2511, 2510 and 2509, all three are H-16-44s, are on a freight, switching at Mendota, IL, on July 4, 1958. Milwaukee purchased 37 of these 1,600 horsepower units from Fairbanks-Morse between January of 1954 and February of 1956.
• Milwaukee Road Class EF-5 four-unit Boxcab E-33 has cut away from its eastbound freight at Othello, WA, on July 6, 1958.
• Milwaukee Road 261, a Class S-3 Northern (4-8-4) is leading an eastbound 72 car train into Council Bluffs, IA, on September 5, 1953.
• Milwaukee Road 5 glistens in a fresh coat of paint as it sits at Chicago, IL, on October 8, 1970. Milwaukee purchased five of these locomotives from Electro-Motive in December 1968.
• Milwaukee Road 88C-88B-88A sits at Duluth, MN, on September 30, 1957. The orange and chocolate brown paint scheme was the original one for the first A-B-A class F-7 diesels from EMD. They were rated at 1,500 horsepower per unit. Three of these 3-unit sets were delivered in October and November 1949.
• Milwaukee Road 596 is on a local freight near Cashton, WI, on April 8, 1972. The power consist for this train includes two RSC-2s and an RSD-5, all built by the American Locomotive Company, the RSC-2s in 1949 and the RSD-5 in 1953.

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Mount Rainier National Park 2024 Wall Calendar

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Mount Rainier National Park in western Washington State preserves some of the best of nature’s scenic treasures. Described as an Arctic island in a temperate sea of coniferous forest, Mount Rainier is the tallest volcano in the Cascade Range and the largest single-peak glacial system in the contiguous United States. The Mount Rainier National Park calendar captures the park in all of its seasonal beauty through words and photographs by Ronald G. Warfield.

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Mount Rainier locations featured in this edition include:
• Frozen fog (rime) and wind-blown snow festoon a grove of subalpine fir and mountain hemlock beside the Skyline Trail above Alta Vista. Winter holds sway from November through May while world record snowfalls transform the scene into a crystalline fairyland
of white.
• Winds flowing over The Mountain create standing wave patterns in the air current similar to a stream of water
deflected upward by a boulder. As moist air rises to clear The Mountain, water vapor condenses into a lens-shaped cloud.
• Branches of mountain hemlocks bend under the weight of deep snowpacks, sloughing the heaviest loads.
Short stiff branches of subalpine firs amass prodigious cloaks of snow. Frozen fog (called rime) adds a crystalline surface that captures even more snow on branches and needles.
• When we enter the Ohanapecosh Valley, we arrive in an old-growth forest cathedral that only a century ago extended from the base of Mount Rainier to the shores of Puget Sound. Douglas-fir, western redcedar, and western hemlock dominate the canopy.
• Mount Rainier sits squarely in the range
of waterfalls–The Cascades. Comet Falls plummets in a 320-foot narrow spray of mist that resembles the tail of a comet splashing to Earth. Early-season hikers on the 1.6-mile Van Trump Park Trail find avalanche chutes, a steep snow-covered trail, and a dangerous stream crossing.
• Subalpine meadows encircle The Mountain in a 93-mile floral wreath in the subalpine zone between 5000 and 7000 feet in elevation. Flower connoisseurs seeking respite from the crowds at Paradise ascend beyond Comet Falls to the flower-filled meadow named for one of the first two summiteers of Mount Rainier, Philemon B. Van Trump.
• Geology buffs find glacial polish and striations on bedrock, roche moutonée, and boulders among glacial till where glacier ice used to be. Now western anemone (mouse-on-a-stick seedheads), subalpine lupine, and magenta paintbrush cover the ground and extend Paradise Meadow into the deglacierized landscape.
• Devotees of Mount Rainier’s floral displays remark that there are only two seasons at Paradise – winter and August. A late melt-out of record snowfalls compresses the flowering season into a few short weeks as masses of subalpine lupine, magenta paintbrush, and Sitka valerian bloom alongside American bistort and the fuzzy seed-heads of western anemone.
• Reflection Lakes occupy shallow basins atop deposits left when a debris avalanche swept down from Mount Rainier about 7000 years ago. Time and regrowth of the subalpine forest have softened this once devastated scene into one of transcendent beauty.

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Joshua Tree National Park 2024 Wall Calendar

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The remarkable landscape of Joshua Tree National Park in California is a source of amazement. Like some playground of lost ancients, rocks and boulders are piled whimsically in a desert landscape of Joshua Trees and blasted oaks. The park protects two desert ecosystems that feature tortoises that drink no water and pricklypear that look science fictional. Amazing!

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About Joshua Tree National Park

The park was first designated a national monument in 1936 and accorded national park status in 1994. It occupies 795,156 acres in southeastern California where it protects two desert ecosystems, each with characteristics that reflect their elevation. The higher area is the Mojave Desert and the lower area is the Colorado Desert. The park is named after the Joshua Tree (Yucca brevifolia) native to the Mojave Desert. People of the Pinto Culture lived in the area as early as 8,000 BCE, and a series of ancestral peoples followed. Spaniards were the first Europeans to see the area in 1772. A Mexican expedition explored here in 1823 when that new country gained its freedom from Spain. California, including the area of the park, was annexed to the United States after winning the Mexican-American War in 1848. Miners arrived in the 1860s and dug a series of mines, eventually totaling about 300, searching for gold and silver. The Desert Queen Mine was one of the last successful mines, producing copper, zinc, and iron. The related ranch and mill were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. White settlers arrived here in 1870,
established farms, and grazed cattle. The Joshua Tree, as well as Pinon pine, California juniper, types of oak, the
dollarjoint pricklypear, and other plant species, grow in the higher and cooler Mojave Desert. Below 3,000 feet, the Colorado Desert covers the eastern part of the park where hot, dry conditions support a variety of desert scrub and cactus. The park’s iconic rock formations result from exposure of volcanic rock, often pushed to the surface by tectonic forces, that is subject to the forces of erosion. The area of the park, is crisscrossed with active faults. The San Andreas Fault passes southwest of the park, and a system of related faults extends throughout the area of the park. Five blocks of mountains in the park are called Transverse Ranges because they tend to run east and west along fault lines. The Coxcomb Mountains in the east run north and south parallel to the San Andreas. Camping is available at nine campgrounds in the park. It is also possible to backpack into the backcountry to camp. The park is an attraction for rock climbers because it offers thousands of climbing routes that include all levels of difficulty.
Birders are attracted to the park because it is a haven for many species that winter there. There are also many resident desert birds, ranging from the greater roadrunner and the cactus wren to Gambrel’s quail. The park is adjacent to a section of the Pacific Flyway that attracts a range of migrating species. Many park animals like birds and squirrels are active during the heat of the day, but a range of animals prefer the cool of the night. Nocturnal animals seen after dark range from Big Horn sheep and coyotes to bobcats and black-tailed jackrabbits. Despite its ability to survive without drinking water, the desert tortoise in the Mojave Desert lowlands is now considered a threatened species.
On average the park receives only about 5.45 inches of rain throughout the year. Between June and September, temperatures average more than 90 degrees Fahrenheit, while January sees an average low of 35 degrees. Average high temperatures exceed 60 degrees in nearly every month of the year. The park is trending hotter and drier. Annual precipitation has declined 39 percent between 1895 and 2016, and the annual average temperature has increased 3 degrees.

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Illinois Central Railroad 2024 Wall Calendar

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The longest railroad in the world in 1856, Illinois Central rails crossed Illinois, and eventually connected Chicago to New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico. Locomotives and trains featured in the calendar range from a Mountain (4-8-2) built by Lima in 1924, an Alco 0-6-0 switcher from 1916, EMD GP-9s from 1954, named trains like the City of Miami, and more. Celebrate the “Mainline of Mid-America.”

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Locomotives featured in this edition include:
• Illinois Central EMD Class GP-18 9415 and EMD Class GP-28 9432 lead a local freight at Louisville, KY, on January 7, 1966.
• Illinois Central 9030 and 9008 (two GP9’s built by EMD in 1954) are running light at Clinton, IL, on February 3, 1955. Between 1954 and 1958, Illinois Central purchased 328 GP-9s.
• Here comes Illinois Central 4000 on the northbound City of Miami approaching Champaign, IL, on March 2, 1947. The City of Miami offered every-third-day reserved coach service.
• Illinois Central 2736, a 2-10-2 Santa Fe with an auxiliary water car, is being prepared for service at the Paducah, KY, engine terminal on April 27, 1957. This locomotive and others like it were built by the Lima Locomotive Works in 1921, and most remained in service until late 1958.
• Illinois Central engine 9512, an Electro-Motive GP-38AC four-axle, diesel-electric built in 1970, and two other units just like it, plus a Gulf, Mobile and Ohio unit on the rear of the power consist lead a freight through Alma, IN, on May 2, 1973.
• Illinois Central 2438, a Mountain Type (4-8-2) built by the Lima Locomotive Works in December 1924, is in passenger train service at Chicago, IL, on June 2, 1953.
• Illinois Central 9200 and 9203, both steam boiler equipped EMD GP-9s, are on Train #11, the Hawkeye at Chicago, IL, in July 1966. The Hawkeye was a daily train operated between Chicago and Sioux City, IA, a distance of 509 miles. The Hawkeye operated under that name from 1919 until the last train ran the day prior to the start of Amtrak.
• Illinois Central (EMD E-9A) 4034 and Central of Georgia 812 (EMD E8A painted in I.C. colors) are leading Train #10, the northbound Seminole at Kankakee, IL, on July 26, 1967. The Seminole went into service in 1925. It was a passenger train, providing daily service between Chicago and Naples, FL.
• Locomotive 2604, a Mountain (4-8-2), is on a southbound coal empty; it has pulled off the main line at DuQuoin, IL, to allow a freight to do some switching in September 1958. The Illinois Central acquired E units early on, but they continued to use steam instead of the early diesel cab units like the EMD FT’s, F3’s, F7’s and Alco FA’s through 1958.
• Illinois Central 290, one of two 0-6-0 switchers built by the American Locomotive Company in 1916, was assigned switching duties at New Orleans, LA, on October 3, 1943. Legendary Denver photographer Richard Kindig was on leave from the Army during World War II and found 290 at the I.C. engine terminal.
• Here is the Green Diamond northbound at the Kankakee, IL, depot on November 13, 1941. Built by Pullman-Standard, it was delivered with a power car and five passenger cars, all streamlined. Officially delivered to the Illinois Central on March 27, 1936, IC ran several publicity trains, and the train was put on display. Finally, on May 17, 1936, it was put into regular service.
• Illinois Central 3507, an 0-8-0 built and delivered by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1921, is putting on a quite a show as it pulls away from the water tank at Paducah, KY, on April 28, 1957. There were originally 70 of these switchers and they all had long careers. These locomotives were retired a few at a time as diesel switchers took over, and by 1960 all of them were retired.

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Howard Fogg Trains 2024 Wall Calendar

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Considered the all-time master of railroad art, Howard Fogg painted the power and majesty of the steel wheel on the steel rail. After rail fans discovered Fogg’s artistry, he spent the next 50 years as a freelance artist reinventing the steam age. In Howard Fogg Trains 2024, his paintings live on, commemorating the great age of railroading.

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Railroads featured in this edition include:
• It is the early winter of 1949, and Chesapeake and Ohio Greenbriar Class J-3 (4-8-4) built by the Lima Locomotive Works in 1937 is on the point of a passenger train making a stop at the Thurmond, West Virginia depot.
• Northern Pacific Class A-5 Northern (4-8-4) 2681 is leading an eastbound mail train east of Bozeman, Montana in the winter of 1950. There were ten locomotives in the A-5 class, 2680 through 2689, built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works and delivered in 1943.
• Pennsylvania Railroad Class GG-1, one of ten motors of this class painted in Tuscan Red to match the color of the Morning Congressional is travelling through a snowy scene north of Philadelphia on its way to New York City, about 85 miles away.
• When the first Union Pacific Railroad 4000 was rolled out of the shop at American Locomotive Company, an unknown employee had chalked the words “Big Boy” on the front of the smokebox. Union Pacific had given thought to calling them “Wahsatches” after the grade they were originally designed to conquer.
• Rio Grande Southern Locomotives 21, a Consolidation (2-8-0) and 23, a Ten Wheeler (4-6-0) are leading a southbound string of varnish across Bridge 45-A, the 470-foot-long Howard Creek Trestle.
• Aliquippa and Southern 1210 is handling switching chores at its parent plant, Jones and Laughlin Steel Company in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. The cars are being set out for a pick-up by the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad, which passes by just outside the gate here.
• Missouri Pacific 356, along with two other units, an FB-2 and an FA-2, is leading an eastbound expedited freight along the Missouri River at Jefferson City, Missouri, on its way to St. Louis in the summer of 1955.
• Locomotive 46238 of the former London, Midland and Scottish Railway is running through verdant green country north of London, England in the summer of 1950. A 4-6-2 designed for passenger train service, 46238 was named City of Carlisle.
• With the temperature hovering near 110 degrees, Union Pacific 1630A (a Model FA with two FBs built in 1949 by the American Locomotive Company trailing) has the westbound Daylight Livestock Express making near passenger train speed as it passes an isolated siding southwest of Las Vegas, Nevada in the Summer of 1949.
• Engine 1401, a Class Ps-4 Pacific (4-6-2), was one of a dozen built by Richmond Locomotive Company in 1926 for passenger train service. Southern Railway had numerous other Pacific-type engines, 261 in total, but these 12 were painted green with gold trim for service on the Crescent.
• In 1927 and 1928, the Baldwin Locomotive Works built a pair of articulated tank engines, numbers 50 and 51. This painting shows Engine 51 coming through Cooley, Colorado.

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Hot Rods 2024 Wall Calendar

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Hot rods and custom cars have always represented the independent and rebellious spirit of America. A craze that started not long after WWII when G.I.’s returning home decided to strip down and modify for speed an old jalopy they could pick up for cheap. Whether cruising to the burger stand or racing at the drag strip, these lowered, chopped, flamed, and chromed cars got the looks …and the girls! It’s a trend that continues to this day and is more popular than ever. Hot Rod Artist Larry Grossman brings this exciting scene to life with his unique and highly detailed pictures in Hot Rods.

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Hot Rods featured in this edition include:
√ This sharp ’55 Ford Crown Victoria features all of the classic “mild” custom additions, including a tube grill, tuck n’ roll, lakes pipes, and fender skirts. And note the factory original green plexi skylight. That classic Ford dealership was in Beverly Hills.
√ This “Ol’ Skool,” full-fendered ’32 Ford 3-window coupe has all the classic features, including a chopped top, louvered hood, and fat whitewalls.
√ The ’57 Chevy Nomad was (along with the ’55 & ’56 models) one of the most stylish production-line cars ever manufactured. I owned a black ‘57 when I was 17… and wish I still had it!
√ Ya’ just never know what you’ll find on Route 66. In this case it’s a chopped ’51 Ford “Shoebox” kustom, a wayward cowgirl, and two dudes lookin’ for some action!
√ Looks like a getaway is in progress, as a jail bird plows through the wall in this hijacked ’64 Plymouth CHP gasser!
√ Here’s a blown ’37 Chevy gasser, wheel-standing off the line at the famed Famoso Dragstrip, site of the Bakersfield Nationals.
√ This ’54 Corvette Nomad was a one-off concept car that unfortunately never went into production. It did however pave the way for the full-sized ’55-57 Nomad wagons that followed.
√ Featuring a nasty looking blown HEMI mill, this ’26 Ford ’T’ truck must really scoot. The classic Art Deco-style Firestone dealership was located on La Brea Ave. in L.A., unfortunately, it’s been converted to a bar-brewery!
√ In 2013 I created this picture of the famed Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood which became the backdrop for four of customizer Rick Dore’s beautifully streamlined creations. Rick commissioned me to add his cars, and he can be spotted on the sidewalk behind his stunning “Black Pearl.”
√ It’s pedal-to-the-metal as this wicked chopped and flamed ’49 Merc kustom hauls-ass somewhere along the badlands of ol’ Route 66.
√ This radical ’49 Studebaker kustom truck hauls a beautiful ’48 Anglia gasser. They’re obviously headed for a race somewhere!
√ This two-toned ‘48 Chevy low-rider has all the essential accessories: sun visors, fog and spotlights, fender skirts, and rear window blinds! And check out the cool Zoot Suits on the low riders hangin’ at their local tire shop… praise the Lower’d indeed!

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GTO Classics 2024 Wall Calendar

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The Pontiac GTO arrived in showrooms ready to rumble in the fall of 1963. The GTO package included a 325 hp, 389 cu in V8 with a four-barrel carb, dual exhausts, and a Hurst shifter on the floor. Gran Turismo sales proved Detroit’s muscle car concept was irresistible to American drivers, and GTO
sales rocked on for a decade.

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GTO classics featured in this edition include:
≈ Pontiac GTOs from 1964 to 1974

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Great Trains 2024 Wall Calendar

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In Great Trains 2024 the power and romance of the rails is captured through the paintings of Gil Bennett. There are paintings of classic passenger trains of the past, along with locomotives that moved freight and goods across this land. From the diminutive 2-4-4T of the Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad to Union Pacific’s big 4-6-6-4 Challenger, trains from coast to coast are depicted with historical details about the railroads and trains pictured.

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Locomotives and trains featured in this edition include:
• In 1937, the Richmond Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad ordered five 4-8-4 locomotives from the Baldwin Locomotive Works for fast freight and passenger service. Being a “Southern” railroad, they called these Generals instead of the regular moniker of “Northern.”
• On February 12, 1909, a light snow started that ended up dumping six feet of snow on the western slope of Cumbres Pass. This closed the Denver & Rio Grande line over the pass and stranded several trains. The railroad had two rotary snowplows, OM and ON, but a mild winter was forecast, so OM was sent to Denver to be rebuilt. ON was clearing the line over Marshall Pass.
• A light snow falls as Union Pacific Challenger 3989 heads up the 1.7% grade out of Ogden, Utah in 1948. Challenger 3989 is headed against an east wind as it struggles up the steep grade at 12 mph. Back at the end of the train, a big 2-10-2 pushes to keep the train moving.
• Western Pacific 901A is at the top of Silver Zone Pass. Snow-covered Pilot Peak is in the back on the Utah–Nevada border.
• Here Union Pacific GP30 718, GP30B 731, and GP30 817 take the local back to Ogden on a cool day in May.
• Every week during World War II,
the Logan High marching band and well wishers would send off sailors, soldiers, and airmen. The Utah-Idaho Central station at Logan, Utah, was filled with the crowds that would spill out into the street. UIC train 206 would depart at 11:35 a.m. with mail, passengers, and the newly drafted kids, heading off to meet trains in Ogden.
• To run their freight trains, the road ordered eighty large 2-8-4 Berkshires from ALCO and Lima Locomotive works. These locomotives would regularly handle freight trains at speeds over 60 mph for an enviable on time performance.To keep trains moving, even coal and ore trains would run at 45 to 50 mph, as seen here. Berkshire 761 accelerates its ore train out of a small town in Ohio on a warm summer morning.
• Here we see the Hooterville Cannon Ball stopped at the Shady Rest Hotel water stop with Betty Jo in the cab talking to Earl of Petticoat Junction. The locomotive, Sierra number 3, is a Rogers 4-6-0 built in 1891. It still runs today.
• Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad locomotive #8, a Mason Machine Works Bogie, pulls a train into East Boston in 1906. This was once the most heavily traveled passenger line in the United States.
• Denver & Rio Grande locomotive 361, a C-21, and 454, a K-27, help the road engine 456, a K-27, move a loaded twenty-car stock train up Cerro Summit in western Colorado in 1947.
• Altoona was the main shop and locomotive complex of the Pennsylvania Railroad, building cars and steam and electric
locomotives. The busy line through town saw more than 200 freight and passenger trains and helper movements daily. All passenger trains would get a helper to climb up the grade west of town, and freights would get both a helper on the front and pushers on the rear to move tonnage up the mountain. Here 6459, a 2-10-4 J1a, and 4587, an I1sa 2-10-0, shove hard on the back of a heavy freight train as it blasts past the tower at Slope.
• The shrill cry of a whistle reverberates against the crystal-trimmed depot at Elkhorn, Nebraska, as a frosty Union Pacific 2-10-2 and 4-12-2 hustle tonnage westward on Christmas Day, 1951. Clear exhaust forms a white muffler for the charging steamers as helper engine 5057 and road engine 9504 head southeast in the sub-zero morning.

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Great Golf 2024 Wall Calendar

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Enjoy Great Golf across America and beyond in this expansive collection of links that ranges from Wailea in Hawaii to Kingsbarns in Scotland. There are great public courses like Pebble Beach and private courses like the Palmer Course at PGA West. These tracks will challenge you to bring your best game and enjoy great shots all year long. Fore!

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Ghost Dance 2024 Wall Calendar

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In the late 1800s, the Ghost Dance religion promised hope and resurrection at a time when Native American nations across America faced destruction. Misunderstood by authorities, the Ghost Dance sparked the savage attack on Sioux men, women, and children at Wounded Knee in 1890. Through his paintings in Ghost Dance, JD Challenger renews the bonds of strength and dignity linking Native Americans to their history.

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Paintings featured in the this edition include:
≈ Red Wolf Spirit
≈ Blackbird
≈ Blood Moon
≈ Cool Bear
≈ Red Thunder
≈ Stands Ready
≈ A Long Time Coming
≈ Yellow Eagle’s Dance
≈ Young Red Dog
≈ Way of the Warrior
≈ Turquoise Tears
≈ The Drums will Lead Us Home

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Flowers by Amalia Veralli 2024 Wall Calendar

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We look at a beautiful flower, but do we actually see it? In Flowers 2023, Amalia Elena Veralli proves herself to be a passionate visual explorer, and her photographs take us on an expedition into the remarkable structure of flowers. Whether observing the entire bloom or seeing into a flower’s core, Flowers by Amalia Elena Veralli reveals the incredible patterns, vaulted canopies, and spires that argue for nature’s place as Earth’s foremost architect.

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

Flowers featured in this edition include:
≈ Orchid Cactus
≈ Peony
≈ Gerbera Daisy
≈ Tulip
≈ Anemone
≈ Love-in-a-mist
≈ Passion Flower
≈ Parrot Tulip
≈ Cosmos
≈ Ranunculus
≈ Calla Lily
≈ Bloodroot

Published by Tide-mark Press © 2023