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 s Trains, his paintings live on commemorating the great age of railroading. This 2021 monthly wall calendar features: Large blocks for notes | Beautiful reproduction | Quality heavy-weight paper | Deluxe 11- by 14-inch size
Paintings by Howard Fogg featured include: Steam in the Heartland 1955
Wabash Railroad 2910, a Class O-1 Northern (4-8-4), is hustling an eastbound freight through the central Illinois farm country east of Decatur during the winter of 1955. 2910 was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works and delivered in August of 1930. Wabash owned 25 Class O-1 Northerns. Three of a Kind at Mears Junction
Mears Junction is located about a dozen miles due southwest of Salida, Colorado. It is about a week before Christmas of 1947 as Rio Grande 497, one of three Class K-37 (2-8-2) Mikados seen here, leads a northbound train, having left Alamosa, Colorado several hours earlier. The train has crossed the eastern side of the vast San Luis Valley, climbed Poncha Pass, and is now drifting downgrade with a string of box cars on its way to Salida, this crew s destination for today. Old Time 4-4-0
Old time 4-4-0, locomotive 85, has a five-car train in tow. It is standard gauge Howard only painted narrow-gauge subjects when there was no way out of doing so. The location may be the Canadian Rockies. There is a Prairie Schooner covered wagon and an outrider going like the wind. Shouldn t Paint so Fast
The painting is an imagined scene, but it appears to be a westbound shooter on the Santa Fe Transcon near Chalander, Arizona, about eighteen miles west of Flagstaff. Steam and Spanish Moss
Shay #41 of the MK Lumber Company is rolling a load of logs across a rickety trestle in Florida in 1950. This was a scene invented by the artist for a commissioned painting. The buyer asked for a painting with a Shay-powered backwoods lumber train in a Spanish moss environment typical of the Old South. Westbound Mail at Martin, Washington
Northern Pacific 2601 is on the approach to the East Portal of Stampede Pass with a westbound mail train. The exact location is Martin, Washington and the year is 1930. The American Locomotive Company built twelve of these locomotives (4-8-4) for the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1926 and 1927. Kanawha in the New River Gorge
The New River Gorge, located east of Charleston, West Virginia, is the setting for Chesapeake and Ohio 2711 on a passenger train in the late Fall of 1944. American Locomotive Company built 40 of these Class K-4 (2-8-4) locomotives in 1943 and 1944. This wheel arrangement was called a Berkshire-type. Chesapeake and Ohio referred to them as a Kanawha. Steam in the Kansas Wheat Fields
Rock Island 5104, an oil burning Class R-67 Northern (4-8-4) leads a westbound freight near Wellington, Kansas in the Summer of 1950. Rock Island received ten R-67 s in 1944, numbers 5100 through 5109. In 1946 they received ten more; these were 5110 through 5119. Station Stop at Wagon Wheel Gap
Wagon Wheel Gap, Colorado is located about 60 miles west of Alamosa on what was referred to as the Creede Branch. In 1935, there was still passenger train service on the Creede Branch, as illustrated in this painting. Rio Grande 784, built by the Brooks Locomotive Works in 1909, is a Class T-29 4-6-0 ( T is for ten-wheeler; 29 is for 29,093 pounds of tractive effort.) Bill Price s Railroad
Baltimore and Ohio 4419, one of 45 Class Q-4 Mikados (2-8-2) built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1920, is leading a westbound freight up Sand Patch Grade just west of the horseshoe curve.
