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Construction of the Hanging Lake rest area in Glenwood Canyon, part of the I-70 construction project. This photo was taken on June 27, 1994. The project completed Interstate 70's final, 12.5-mile gap in the transcontinental highway reaching from Baltimore, Maryland, to Interstate 15 south of Salt Lake City. "Lawsuits, environmental impact studies, and design changes took nearly two decades to resolve before the first shovelful of earth was turned...
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Bill Luby's automobile parked at the Shoshone Power Plant in Glenwood Canyon.
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The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad depot at Red Cliff, taken from across the Eagle River. The river is running high and in it an automobile is submerged to the windows.
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"Working on car on way to Glenwood" - Alda Borah 1917. Two men are looking under the hood of a car on the narrow dirt road winding through Glenwood Canyon. The drive to Glenwood Springs was an all-day adventure that required a few stops along the way. The body of water in the back would have been the Grand River at the time, later renamed to the Colorado River. In the left background, a utility pole can be seen along the railroad tracks across the...
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A Zephyr wreck in Glenwood Canyon. On March 29, 1968, a passenger train was passing through Glenwood Canyon near Grizzly Creek when it derailed. Two of the diesel locomotives, F9A 5774 and F9B 5773, were later retired and sold for scrap to Barter Machinery & Supply Company out of Denver in May of 1969. Motorists can be seen on the other side of the river observing the wreck,
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The Eagle River at Edwards [Wilmore stop]. Lettuce shed next to the railroad with the old water tank in the background. Benny Klatt's home and small store on Highway 6. Benny Klatt was killed by his brother-in-law, William Wellington, over the ownership of the cabin in which Wellington lived.