HTF "Across the New Frontier" vintage set of 6 Diesel locomotive prints. EMD

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"Across the New Frontier"
This is a complete limited edition set of six locomotive prints. They are in used condition and have various degree of stains, tears, and other signs of age. The good news is that much of the damage is on the white part of the prints which can be covered up with a frame and a mat.
Print 1 is titled, "The Best Friend of Charleston" commemorates The Southern Railroad.
Print 2 is "On the Old Santa Fe Trail" and features of Sante Fe Railroad.
Print 3 "Through the Heart of the South" featuring the Seaboard Railway.
Print 4 "The Great West" features The Great Northern Railway.
Print 5 "Via Feather River Canyon" pictures the Western Pacific.
Finally, print 6 "Double Heading on Old Veta Pass" features the Rio Grande Railroad.
This is  a hard to find limited edition set that was distributed by General Motors Corporation, Electro-Motive Division, La Grange, Illinois. I believe they were issued in conjunction with the 10th anniversary of EMD diesels in 1944. The prints are on heavy stock and are quite suitable for framing. The title print says that ...Thus Currier and Ives prints of early American railroad scenes become a telling background against which to depict current transportation developments. In contrasting the equipment with the latest evidence of engineering advance, we have tried to supply that element of perspective upon American railroad progress which will permit a more complete appreciation of its significance. In the development of the illustrations it was found that sometimes no Currier and IVes print in existence fitted the text. Two New York artists made etchings after the style of Currier and Ives from old photographs, wood cuts, and other source material in railroad archives, and two of the illustrations reproduced herein were developed in this manner. They are the background pictures in "Best Friend of Charleston" and "Double Heading on Old Veta Pass." The portfolio thus affords an interesting opportunity to observe what a Currier and Ives print might look like if those estimable lithographers still were in business today." Image size is approximately 11 x 13 inches. The entire print size is 14 1/2 x 17 3/4." .