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A view of the old Colorado Midland Depot, Main Street, Basalt, used as a garage and information bureau. Snow on roof and ground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
22. Burns Stockyards
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Burns Stockyards, October 1939, showing cattle in loading pens going up the ramp to rail cars on shipping day. Steam engine at left background. Four horses in foreground with dog.
The yards were built in exchange for the right of way needed by the railroad to go through the Benton Land & Livestock Company property. It was a great help to local ranchers and, when the railroad no longer would ship cattle by rail, it caused hardship for the ranchers...
23. Train derailment
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Train derailment at Wolcott. Crane at left.
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Train derailment below the depot in Eagle, Colorado, January 10, 1944. The crane is in place to move the wreckage.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Highway 6 & 24, plowed after snowfall, near Wolcott, Colorado. Train in distance.
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Train derailment below the depot in Eagle, Colorado. Onlookers are standing on the bank looking down at the wreck and at the men working the scene. The train depot is at right with the water tank further along the tracks. The houses at left are off Brooks Lane today.
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Train derailment below the depot in Eagle, Colorado, January 10, 1944. Looking toward the depot from across the frozen lower field and pond at the train wreck. Onlookers are standing on the bank looking down at the wreck and at the men working the scene. There appears to be smoke/steam coming from the wreckage. Water tank visible on the bank.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The concrete bridge at Wolcott, showing railroad tracks and equipment behind it. The bridge was built in 1916 during the period when the Colorado Highway Department was replacing many small wooden bridges with concrete structures. This one was on State Highway 131 and employed a Luten arch design, patented by Daniel B. Luten in 1905. Eagle County contracted with the Pueblo Bridge Company to build the bridge. It was replaced in 2006. [Spanning...
29. Loading potatoes
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Men on wagons loaded with potato sacks lined up to load freight cars (Denver & Rio Grande Railroad) at the Eagle Depot (visible at far left).
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Service tram going from upper level, Gilman, to Belden in Eagle River Canyon. Cribbings visible, holding hillside in place. Train tracks in foreground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
31. Avon Depot
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Avon Depot in the snow.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
32. Train derailment
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Close up of the damage done to Engine 1706 and box car after derailing in Eagle, January 10, 1944.
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1930s: Rio Grande Railroad crane dropping section of bridge span into place, guided by men at either end of the span. Eagle River visible at left (Eagle, Colorado).
"The Rio Grande Railroad began construction of the steel railroad bridge at Eagle in 1934." -- Those Were the Days, EVE Jan. 22, 2004 p.2
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
34. Railroad bridge
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Verso: "railroad bridge down below Belden and Gilman"
The bridge crosses the Eagle River in the Eagle River Canyon.
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Train derailment, Engine 1706, below the depot in Eagle, Colorado, January 10, 1944. Large boiler of train with debris in foreground. Bulldozer and man standing to left of boiler. Chambers Ranch visible behind snow-covered field in midground. Castle Peak on left horizon.
Engineer: Denny Cornwall killed
Bulldozer operators: Leland Dean, Van Cleve
Helper: George Yost
Roadmaster: Harold Knudsen (Minturn)
Divisional Engineer:; A. L. Kleine
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Old railroad bridge to Emma on the Roaring Fork River (the crossing divides Eagle and Pitkin counties). The bridge has been converted for automobile use. Snow on ground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
37. Burns Stockyard
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1939: Burns Stockyard, November 1939, loading cattle into cattle cars. (Denver & Rio Grande Railroad) Two cowboys on ramps loading cattle; one man on track siding, left midground; woman holding child standing in empty corral behind horses.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Railway to Camp Hale, winter. Dick Lowe was foreman when this line was put in. Pando was the name of the siding. There were 85 Indians working on the line. They lived in "cars" designed for that use and stayed on the job full time. Buildings seen in right midground, railroad tracks in foreground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
39. Carlton Tunnel
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Entrance to the Carlton tunnel in 1932, in the snow.
The Busk-Ivanhoe Tunnel was built by the Busk Tunnel Railway Company for the Colorado Midland Railroad in 1891 as a replacement for the Hagerman Tunnel at a lower, more direct route. It connected Aspen and Leadville.
The tunnel was abandoned following Colorado Midland's 1897 bankruptcy and was converted to one-way auto traffic in 1922 as the Carlton Tunnel, a toll tunnel carrying then-State Highway...
40. Track repair
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Railroad employees checking track. Names listed: D. Sweeney, Tom Linhan, C. Howard, and McKnight. Inscription reads: "Hard workers." Kent station buildings at left background.