The 2025 Franklin County Railroad Calendar is now available in stores and online.

The calendar includes photos of trains and trolleys traveling throughout the region between 1897 and 1970, alongside historical commentary by historian Alden Dreyer of Shelburne and a 1899 map of Franklin County railways.

“We’ve been doing the calendar since 2008,” Dreyer said. “Occasionally I include a photo from outside Franklin County by accident but no one’s fired me yet!”

Dreyer said most of the images come from the collection of the late Peter Miller, a Greenfield historian who “spent a lifetime collecting stuff.” Additional images come from other local historians, photographers and an occasional resident who finds an old postcard in their attic. Dreyer then comes up with historical factoids on the type of train, or location and assembles the calendar, which is published by oldmaps.com.

Dreyer said his favorite photo in the 2025 calendar is the one for September, which shows a caboose pushing a refrigerator car to the East Deerfield rail yard in November 1954. Dreyer said that photo is his favorite because of his personal connection — he worked at the rail yard for a number of years.

The calendar can be purchased for $15 at World Eye Bookshop in Greenfield, Roundabout Books in Greenfield, Hager’s Farm Market in Shelburne, Nancy L. Dole Used Books & Ephemera in Shelburne Falls and the Historic Deerfield Museum Store in Deerfield. Calendars are also available online at vhist.com/calendars/railfranklin.

Reach Madison Schofield at 413-930-4579 or mschofield@recorder.com.