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1) Eagle Depot
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Four men standing in front of the Eagle Depot. Caption reads: "Jim-Greenie-Roy-Wall."
Roy is Roy McDougall and Wall is holding on to him from behind..
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Derailment one mile east of Eagle in 1918. View from on top of a nearby car.
3) D&RG depot
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The D&RG depot in Eagle with windows boarded and roof in disrepair. It was in the process of being dismantled and torn down. Mr. Rivera of Wolcott bought the building and used the lumber to build on his property there. [Eagle Valley Enterprise Aug. 15, 1968]
"The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad depot was operated around the clock. Two water towers allowed steam engines to take on water between Grand Junction and Pueblo. The railroad also provided...
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Locomotive between the Eagle depot and the water tank at Eagle, Colorado.
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Derailment one mile east of Eagle in 1918. Men working to right a car.
7) The No. 2
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The No. 2 train at the Depot in Eagle.
"Trains number 1 and 2 were the main passenger trains. They both had diner and Pullman cars. Number 1 came west from Denver and Pueblo, arriving in Minturn at 6:30 p.m. Number 2 arriver in Minturn at 10:20 a.m. Number 1 and 2 used mostly 1100- and 1200-class stem locomotives. Number 2 had to pick up a helper in Minturn to help pull it across Tennessee Pass. Unlike the other, Number 1 and Number 2 didn't...
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From left, Burke, McDougal and West standing by a locomotive at the Eagle Station.
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Fred and Freda Martinez at the Eagle depot in 1917. Fred was the popular D.&R.G. station agent at Eagle for many years.
Eagle Valley Enterprise Mar. 7, 1919 p.1: "Word was received in Eagle last Friday to the effect that the Federal grand jury in session in Denver had freed Fred Martenez [sic.], former D. & R.G. agent at Eagle, of the charge of swindling the company. Martinez and a foreman in charge of a gang of Mexican workingmen employed at this...
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Derailment one mile east of Eagle in 1918. Men working the rails by the cars.
