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Considered the all-time master of railroading art, Howard Fogg painted the power and majesty of the steel wheel on the steel rail. After railfans discovered Fogg's artistry, he spent the next 50 years as a freelance artist reinventing the steam age. In
Howard Fogg's Trains 2019, his paintings live on, commemorating the great age of railroading. Engines and locations featured in the 2019 calendar include:
Pennsylvania Railroad K-4s Pacific (4-6-2) passing a steel mill in Pittsburgh, PA during a snowstorm
Rotary OY, a steam-driven plow built in 1923, is doing the heavy lifting. (All Rio Grande maintenance and snow fighting equipment was identified by letters rather than numbers.) Shoving on the rotary are engines 487 and 482
Union Pacific Northern 807 (4-8-4) is on the point of Train #37, the westbound "Pony Express. This is the winter of 1940 near Buford, Wyoming on Sherman Hill. The "Pony Express" operated from 1926 until 1954. At this time the train departed Denver, CO at 5:45pm and ran westbound through the night, arriving in Salt Lake City, UT at 7:35am
It is the early Summer of 1938 and Denver Rio Grande Western 1705 is eastbound with 13 cars. 1704 is a Class M-64 Northern (4-8-4) built in 1929 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works
Great Northern 430-D, an Electro-Motive F7A-F7B-F7B-F7A 6,000 horsepower set delivered in 1948, is on a westbound freight passing through Glacier National Park at Nimrod, MT, where Triple Divide Peak provides a spectacular backdrop
Leased D&RGW 463, which was a rear-end helper, has cut off and come through the snow shed at the Summit of Lizard Head Pass. It will run light to Rico, followed by 461 with the train, where they will tie up for the night
At the foot of the San Francisco Peaks, three American Locomotive Company Model RSD-15's, Santa Fe 800, 801 and 802, are the power for a hot eastbound reefer block coming through Cosnino, AZ, 11 rail-miles east of Flagstaff, AZ in the summer of 1959
Near Martin, WA, Northern Pacific 2601 is leading a westbound mail train on the approach to the East Portal of Stampede Pass Tunnel in the summer of 1930. 2601 is a Northern (4-8-4), one of a group of the very first locomotives of the design built in 1926 and 1927
In 1946 and 1947, Milwaukee bought 27 of these American Locomotive Company Model RSC-2 diesel road switchers. They came with six-wheel trucks that spread out axle loading so they could run on many Milwaukee branch lines
This is a painting without a past, so to speak. The Conway Scenic Railroad is based in Conway, NH. it is a tourist railroad, and one of its routes runs through Crawford Notch where it crosses a spectacular trestle. The scenery is unsurpassed. Howard was commissioned to paint a train led by Conway s Engine #108, a Prairie Class (2-6-2) locomotive
Denver and Rio Grande Western Class K-36 Mikado 481 (2-8-2) is on the point of the westbound "San Juan" on a late fall day in 1947. The "San Juan" was a daily train operating between Durango and Alamosa, CO.
Denver and Rio Grande Western 473 and 477 are both Class K-28 Mikado's built by the American Locomotive Company in 1923. This combined train ran double-headed from Alamosa to Antonito, CO, a distance of about 29 miles, where it was divided into two trains
About the Author
Howard Lockhart Fogg, Jr. was born in Brooklyn, New York, on April 7, 1917. He came from a family that was interested in trains and at least some of his interest in drawing and painting pictures of trains may be attributed to his grandfather, who was a draftsman for the Boston and Maine Railroad. The Fogg family moved to a suburb of Chicago in 1923, where Fogg senior worked for the Litchfield & Madison Railroad.
In time, Howard followed his father and attended Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, where he studied English literature, created cartoons for the college paper, painted trains, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1938. That fall he enrolled at the Chicago Academy