Mountain railroads -- Postcards
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175 feet R. G. Southern RY. track near Telluride, left 62 feet in the air by a cloud burst, b/w postcard.
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Colorized view of a winter landscape along a plowed single railroad track with a rosy colored horizon beynd the distant mountains. Pirninted in Germany. Not mailed, but addressed on back to Flora from Aunt Maria.
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Galloping Goose underneath trees.
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Galloping Goose underneath trees; caption on the front: "The Galloping Goose."
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Ophir Loop and Ames Electric Power Plant Railroad in background, Telluride, Colo. The card was made in Germany and was postmarked in Telluride on Dec. 27, 1917, to Mr. H. N. Draemel at the B.C. Mine, Vanadium, Colorado.
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Photo of Galloping Goose next to a building which is on the right. A mountain peak is in the background.
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Photo of the Galloping Goose railroad car next to a building. Tree leaves are turning yellow on a hill in the background.
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Photographic print image of a shed covering a railroad. Several structures stand in a grassy meadow in foreground. Beyond these a thick conifer forest covers a mountain slope. In the far background left corner; snow covered peaks.
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Black and white photo of a railroad "bus: a box car with an engine up front with seating for the engineers. A few shrubs are in front with a grassy slope beyond the car. The side of the box car reads, "MOTOR No. 7, RIO GRAND SOUTHERN R.R. C.O." The passenger compartment has headlights and a grill like an antique car and is labelled "R. G. S. 7" Two passengers are visible.
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A side view of the Ophir Loop. A tree-topped mesa lies in front of the railroad with wooden trestle bridges spanning deep ravines. The road higher up the slope forms a more visible light line hugging the mountainside. Thick pine and aspen forests cover the slopes on the right while rocks and meadows cover the drier slope on the left.
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A rotary snow plow is clearing track across a hillside near Telluride, Colorado.
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A real photo postcard, produced during the White Border era. The train depot, a house and two other buildings, with part of another house visible on the left. It is sitting in fount of a small aspen forest with pine trees visible uphill.
