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"Twice, during its useful years, sections of the bridge collapsed, once in 1929 and again in June of 1946 when this picture was taken. By then its age was beginning to show and some weak places had developed and there was talk of condemnation, it being unsafe for heavy loads. So it was no great surprise to anyone when truck driver Jim Jardy hauling a heavy bulldozer mounted on a low boy found one of those weak places and dropped through. Jardy and...
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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.]
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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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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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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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Train derailment below the depot in Eagle, Colorado, January 10, 1944. Looking toward the depot bank. Onlookers are standing on the bank looking down at the wreck and at the men working the scene. The crane is in place to move the wreckage.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Train derailment below the depot in Eagle, Colorado, January 10, 1944. The crane is in place to move the wreckage while workers look on. The water tank and depot are visible on the bank.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Train derailment below the depot in Eagle, Colorado, January 10, 1944. Two cars overturned with wheel carriages visible amid debris. Snowy fields in background. Taken from a little different perspective than 1984.001.008
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Train derailment below the depot in Eagle, Colorado, January 10, 1944. Two cars overturned with wheel carriages visible amid debris. Snowy fields in background (original photo blurred). Engineer Denny Cornwall was killed in the accident.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Street blocked by snow after the avalanche of Jan. 28, 1969, from Silverhorn Mountain.
12) Ice Train Wreck
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Destroyed rail cars from the ice train wreck in Red Cliff. Pieces of cars and ice blocks are visible on the site.
The accident occurred December 31, 1927.
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Men removing snow from houses in the path of a snowslide in Red Cliff, Colorado.
Eagle Valley Enterprise Jan. 30, 1969 p.1: "Residents of Red Cliff were digging out today from beneath a snowslide which roared down a steep mountainside, burying one house and covering three others to roof level. ...
The mass of snow, about 50 feet wide and 8 feet deep, slid down the side of Silverhorn Mountain Wednesday night, leaving 10 feet of snow piled on the roof...
