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"Denver & Rio Grande freight train of fourty-four cars, loaded with ice from the Pando ice pond, ran away last Saturday morning [Dec. 31, 1927] and the entire train and engine piled up in an awful mess of jumbled ice, broken wood and crumpled steel just west of the depot here [Red Cliff], blocking both main line tracks..." "Ice Train runs away on grade below Pando," Eagle Valley Enterprise Jan. 6, 1928 p.1 The photograph shows the top of the wreckage...
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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. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]