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Locomotive on its side near Kent. Crane at the ready to lift the locomotive. Work crew looking on.
44) Derailment
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Kate Flynn with shovel and construction crew memeber with tamper, used to push dirt under the railroad tires. Kent section house is in the background. There is a bridge over Milk Creek between the crew walking in the background and the section house.
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Derailment one mile east of Eagle in 1918. View from on top of a nearby car.
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Derailment one mile east of Eagle in 1918. Men working to right a car.
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Derailment one mile east of Eagle in 1918. Men working the rails by the cars.
49) Ditcher Crew
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The D. & R.G. ditcher crew on a work train at Woody Creek, 1917.
"Another common type of work train was intended to dig and maintain trackside drainage ditches. The earliest ditching trains used a car with a swinging framework, adjusted by hand, which positioned a toothed, open-ended bucket alongside the track to excavate the ditch as the car was pushed along. This method had many obvious faults. One solution was the steam ditcher, a small steam...
51) Don
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Don at Kent, standing next to a velocipede. "The velocipede has one other wheel attached on the other side [not visible]. One would sit on the seat, where the buckets are and hand operate by using the handle. Don most likely was a lineman, maintaining or working on the telegraph line or Western Union line. It is possible he was involved with track maintenance but my first guess would be lineman. Of note is a red flag rolled up next to the handle....
52) Dowds Junction
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Dowds Junction, above Minturn, where the Eagle River meets Gore Creek and where the D.&R.G. goes up the Gore Creek Valley.
53) 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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The Eagle Lumber Co. loading shed for the Denver & Rio Grand railroad at Peterson Creek gulch in the Eagle River Canyon (about .5 mi. from Red Cliff and 2 mi. from Belden). The logs were sent down on the surface tram running down the gulch in this photo and then loaded on train cars. There is another set of main line tracks across the Eagle River (at the bottom of the photo). The small building at the right is the tram house. Above that, there...
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Eagle Mine (New Jersey Zinc Co.) showing the rail access at Belden, looking down. Depot structures and mine buildings visible at the bottom of the canyon. The town of Gilman would be at the top of the escarpment.
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"Eagle River Canon, Colo., D. & R. G. Ry." Tinted photo postcard shows mine cribbing and mine buildings above Belden with the rail tracks and Eagle River at the bottom.
Verso: No. C8708 Published by The Colorado News Company, Denver, Colo., Dresden-Leipzig-Berlin. Trademark [Corson #632] for American News Co., New York, NY, Litho-chrome process.
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Looking down at the Eagle River in Eagle Canyon, at a portion of the railroad tracks at Belden.
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Two engines meet head-on between Belden and Red Cliff in the Eagle River Canyon. Groups of men in the foreground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
60) Edwards
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Photo postcard from "Louise" to Mrs. S. S. Wooldridge, 226 1st St., Salida, Colo.", mailed from Edwards, Colo., in 1913. There are four men and a boy standing in a fenced area. Luggage is piled at the right, an automobile is behind the fence. Possibly the depot area at Edwards.
