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For auction is a 1983 "California Southern Railroad Calendar" issued by the Orange Empire Railroad Museum, Walnut, California. The California Southern was a short-line railroad with tracks from National City through San Diego, Oceanside, Elsinore, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Victorville, ending in Barstow; it was a subsidiary of the Santa Fe Railroad. The railroad operated between 1880-1889, and the Santa Fe acquired the railroad through liquidation in 1897. Portions of the track are now used by the Santa Fe.

The Railroad Museum issued a desk calendar annually. The calendar measures appx 11 x 8 1/2 inches and is printed on very high-quality paperstock. It contains 28 pages, 12 of which are monthly calendars; the other pages have full-page pictures of older locomotives and trains from around the US and Canada.

This issue has the following pictures:

Jan- Norfolk & Western #2142, a 2-8-8-2 steamer, near Blue Ridge, Virginia

Feb - Tuskeegee # 101, a 2-6-2 steamer, at Tuskeegee, Alabama

Mar - Grand River # 882, an electric, at Port Dover, Ontario

Apl - Canadian Pacific # 2332, a 4-6-2 steamer, at Lambton, Ontario

May - Wabash # 2276, a 2-8-2 steamer, near Lithfield, Illinois

Jun - Denver & Rio Grande Western # 495, a 2-8-2 steamer, at Cedar, New Mexico

Jly - Delaware, Lackawanna & Western # 1140, a 4-6-2 steamer, at Hoboken, New Jersey

Aug - Santa Fe # 1405, a 4-4-2 steamer, at Chicago, Illinois

Sep - Public Service of New Jersey # 2698, an electric trolley, at Caldwell, New Jersey

Oct - Northwestern Pacific #112, a 4-6-0 steamer, at Tiburon, California

Nov - Southern Pacific #4347, a 4-8-2 steamer, at San Francisco, California

Dec - Grand Trunk Western # 6405, a 4-8-4 steamer, at Detroit, Michigan

inside cover - Crystal River & San Juan # 2, a 2-6-0 steamer, near Whitebeck, Colorado

All pictures are suitable for framing.

This calendar appears to be unused and is in excellent condition -- it has no rips or tears, no writing or markings, no spills or smears -- and the binding is secure with all pages firmly in place. It comes with the original envelope in which it was mailed.