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1) Road to Kent
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The road to the Kent section house (in the distance), later the property of Leonard Horn.
2) Red Point
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Man standing on the cliff at Red Point, on the north side of the Eagle River. The railroad tracks can be seen in the valley below. Leonard Horn frequently jumped his horse across the crevice between the cliff and the hillside.
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"The Brooks Bridge, built by the railroad company during construction of the Dotsero Cutoff, replaced an earlier one near the same site. It is now in a sad state or repair and unsafe for other than light traffic. Adjacent to the north end of it is the railroad track and it was here that Leonard Horn had the misfortune to be caught by a train while driving cattle across the bridge, resulting in the loss of several head that were struck by the train."...
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Location of the section house at Kent. The four pines on the hillside opposite continue to be a marker for the Kent location.
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Ella Horn (on right) and a friend, standing on the cow catcher, or pilot, of a locomotive in Denver.
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Location of the section house at Kent. Milk Creek is at the center of the photo. This is called "Flynn's curve" -- Jim Flynn derailed a train at the curve. No one was hurt.
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Rock formations [called Blue Mountains: local designation] behind the Kent location.
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"At the McCoy railroad station, Sept. 6, 1913. In back: Earl Brooks, Eunice Redmond, Phil Hines, [?]
In front: John LaForce, Annie Panting, Edith Hemsworth, Harry Groh, [?], Charley Horn and H. W. Plum, the depot agent." -- McCoy Memoirs p.166
The sign for McCoy has the elevation: 7,210 feet; no population.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
