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Four men involved with the clean-up of the Ice Train wreck in Red Cliff are standing on the tracks in the snow next to a box car.
"Ice Train runs away on grade below Pando," Eagle Valley Enterprise Jan. 6, 1928 p.1
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Ice train wreck in Red Cliff. Ice was being transported from Pando to the ice houses in Minturn, Colorado, to be used in refrigerator cars. The brakes on the train froze and the train wrecked in the Red Cliff city limits. Several men are examining the wreckage.
The accident occurred December 31, 1927.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The "Big Hook" steam-powered wrecker, based in Grand Junction, moving the Ice Train engine into an upright position. Damaged box car in foreground.
"Volunteer labor was called for and many miners from this place went to work with the men rushed to the scene by the railroad company to clear the line."
"Ice Train runs away on grade below Pando," Eagle Valley Enterprise Jan. 6, 1928 p.1
