Transportation
Showing
261 - 268
of 268
, query time: 0.11s
261) VanCamp Stage Stop
Format:
Image
Same as 1992.004A.056
The VanCamp road house, a stage stop, in Routt County. There is an antler fence around the building and sod roof, resulting in its being the subject of many photographs.
"Although noot at all in the McCoy area, this book would be incomplete without the oft photographed VanCamp house in Yampa, an early day stage stop and road house. Note the vegetation growing on the dirt floor [sic. roof]." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 313
[Title...
Format:
Image
Victor Dump at the reins of the horse team and Otto Bergman sitting on lumber from the Fleming Lumber mill. The lumber is on a skid drawn by a horse team.
"The breast strap of the team is threaded through both rings, with the pole strap loop captured between them. This arrangement virtually eliminates the tendency for the end ring sleeve to be pulled off the end of the neckyoke. Simple, but good insurance." -- Stu Dykstra
[Title supplied from catalog...
Format:
Image
Woman walking away from the camera next to parked cars for the Red Cliff Bridge dedication. The guard rail is made from wooden posts with attached cable. The approach to the bridge on U.S. Highway 24 is part of the six miles of new road constructed during the project.
[Red Cliff Bridge construction photo 15]
264) Water st., Red Cliff
Format:
Image
Looking west from the Beck home on Water St. in Red Cliff. The large building in the background was used as a shop and garage for State Highway Department snow plows. On the hillside to the right of the bulding can be seen foundations for the smelter, probably used to produce a lead-silver boullion. The children are unidentified. -- [T. R. Bud Beck, 2010]
265) Winter Travel
Format:
Image
"Sometimes winter travel was very hard on both animals and humans." -- The Gates Genealogy
266) Wolcott
Format:
Image
Photo postcard of Wolcott, Colorado, on U.S. Highway 24.
On front: "Panorama of Wolcott, Colo. on Hwy. U.S. 24, Sanborn W-3385"
268) Work train crew
Format:
Image
The work train crew posing on the tracks at Kent, 1918.
"Often a work train of the 1880s consisted of just the machine and the locomotive, as cabooses were still too scarce to warrant using one on what many managers saw as unnecessary service. As the years went by, it became common practice to attach a caboose, and/or a tool car, to the train. An extra water car was frequently attached to pile driver trains to reduce the number of times the train...
