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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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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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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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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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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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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!

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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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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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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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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 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.

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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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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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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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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.

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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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