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1913: Minturn roundhouse crash showing Rio Grande engine 513. Minturn as the division point between Glenwood Springs and Salida became an important service stop for the railroad. Onlookers posed in front of the engine which is partially ejected through the roundhouse. Water tank in left background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Dotsero Drug Company building, no longer in existence. The building was left after the railroad boom and was used as a house for many years. Kenny Schultz was an occupant. Automobiles and a truck are parked by the building. The photo was printed April 2, 1933.
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The Flynn men on Christmas day 1917 at Kent. Railroad track is at right foreground. Inscription reads: "Flynn & Co." William R. Flynn died in 1905 so the older gentleman is not he.
85) Outfit cars
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"Those cars are what were called outfit cars. They were older passenger cars converted to living quarters for work gangs that had to work in various locations. In this case, outfit cars for the construction crew." -- Jimmy Blouch 2012
88) Work Train
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The work train at Woody Creek, employing a ditcher with fill cars on either side.
89) Belden
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Facilities at Belden, some abandoned. Mine buildings are at right, midfield. The Eagle River is at the right and railroad tracks are at the bottom
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1930s: Winter view of a teacher's house, including directional sign for Bond, depot, lunch room. Wire fence in right foreground. Additional houses in left background.
Caption: "Where the teacher lives. All houses are alike."
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
91) The "Local"
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The local D.&R.G. train, stopped at Wolcott. Posed by the engine, from left: John Anderson, Henery Fremier and Bill Flynn.
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Train derailment below the depot in Eagle, Colorado, January 10, 1944. Looking toward the depot from the train wreck. A man is standing on the bank looking down at the wreck and at the men working the scene. The depot is visible on the bank as are rail cars.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
93) Iron Mask Mill
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The Iron Mask Mill at Belden, at the bottom of the Eagle River Canyon. The Eagle River is in the foreground; Gilman is at the top of the canyon.
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Approaching Belden via surface tram which operated between Gilman (at the top) and Belden, at the bottom of the Eagle River Canyon.
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Beaver near Eagle River. Lettuce shed and railroad siding in background. View is looking to the northeast at Swift Gulch from Emmett Nottingham's old place at Avon.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
97) Loading potatoes
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Wagonloads of potatoes and hay brought to the Eagle Depot to be loaded onto D&RG cars.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
98) Road to Kent
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The road to the Kent section house (in the distance), later the property of Leonard Horn.
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At the bottom of the Eagle River Canyon below Gilman, Belden is situated on the railroad. Ore was loaded on train cars here. The surface tram ran from Gilman down to Belden. The debris from the downpour covers the railroad tracks at midfield. The water was 8 ft. deep between the compressor house and the loading tipple during the cloudburst.
The compressor house had been at Belden for many years. "There was one huge Ingersoll-Rand piston-type...
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Engine No. 211 dead On Marshall Pass, February 21-24, 1899. Marshall Pass, elevation 10,842 ft., in between Salida and Gunnison, Colorado. This was part of Denver & Rio Grande's narrow gauge from Denver to Salt Lake City, 1881-1955.
