Monthly Archive for July, 2010
I couldn’t resist this calendar when I saw it last week during a visit to a local antique store. Not only are the photos exquisite, but each one comes with all the technical info: f-stop, exposure, film type, etc. Ironically enough, the photographers themselves are not credited! But here’s the real hell of it: the last page states that “prints suitable for framing of any of these calendar subjects…may be obtained free of charge by writing Union Pacific Railroad…!” Since I assume this offer is no longer valid, allow me to honor the spirit of their largess by offering them to you myself. Click on each photo for more info.
![The Domeliner "City of Portland" glides through the grandeur if the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4116/4797219595_da83d62861.jpg "The Domeliner "City of Portland" is one of a fleet of luminous Union Pacific trains providing daily service from such Pacific Coast cities as Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles to Chicago and St. Louis. For smooth, relaxing, comfortable travel these sleek trains are unsurpassed. (I/5 second, f28, Daylight Color Film, 8x10 Eastman 2D Camera, 10 inch Wide Field Ektar)")
![The Great White Throne and Angels Landing in Zion National Park, Utah](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4114/4797848516_e3c0c56676.jpg "Erosion, the tireless sculptor in nature's processes, carved Zion Canyon from the red and white sandstone cliffs of Southern Utah. Along its walls were left many beautiful rock temples. Outstanding among them is The Great White Throne, towering 2,475 feet above the river at its base, its wooded crest "an inaccessible island in the air." Its lower portion is red, its upper surface tinting from rosy buff to chalky white. (1/2 second, F32, Daylight Color Film, 8x10 Eastman 2D Camera, 10 inch Wide Field Ektar Lens)")
![Tipsoo Lake and Mount Rainier in Rainier National Park, Washington](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4120/4797849846_1147c0c7ef.jpg "Beyond the rugged Tatoosh Range of low mountains rises the noble crest of glacier-clad Mount Rainier, 14,408 feet. This isolated giant of the Cascade Range is the central object of Rainier National Park. The Park has fine guest accommodations and is reached by highway from Tacoma, Seattle and Yakima gateways. (1/5 second, F22, Daylight Type Ektachrome, 8x10 Vies., Camera, 16 1/2" Goerz Dogmar Lens)")
![This powerful gas turbine-electric locomotive exemplifies progress, a Union Pacific watchword](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4074/4797222831_9835e247f6.jpg "Another Union Pacific "first" is the gas turbine-electric locomotive, the latest development in rail motive power. Twenty-five of these units of 4500 horsepower each were in regular service by 1955. Scheduled for delivery in 1957 are fifteen still more powerful units of 8500 horespower each. (1/25 second, F14, Daylight Color Film, 4x5 Speed Graphic, 5 inch Ektor Lens)")
