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21) Charcoal kilns
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"Char-coal kiln used in making charcoal for smelter 1890 in Colo." -- verso
Three kilns located next to a railroad track and boxcar for the transportation of the finished charcoal. Wood stacked at left, prior to loading the kilns. A. P. Rundell is standing on top of the first kiln with four other men visible.
From Jimmy Blouch on location: "My first guess is Mitchell, on Tennessee Pass.
Mitchell is/was on the west side of Tennessee Pass. As one...
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Derailment one mile east of Eagle in 1918. Men working the rails by the cars.
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The Western Union crew lined up next to an outfit car at Kent, 1917. Inscription reads: "Western Union Boys." They worked on telegraph poles for Western Union and were not railroad employees.
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The local train, stopped at Gypsum, being checked. Inscription reads: "Local."
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A surface tram used to move ore and equipment is on the left coming into Belden from Gilman at the top. Loading tippel, steam room and the dryer buildings are pictured in the lower right.
28) Pando Depot
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Rail cars at Pando (site of Camp Hale) showing loading area, pens, and track. Some snow on the ground. The first of three photos comprising a panoramic view from left to right.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"Big Mallard Engine going toward Pass at Red Cliff Ball Park, Colo 1917" from Alda Borah. (1919 is crossed out, replaced with 1917.) Trains of all kinds had trouble with Colorado mountain passes, eventually leading to the elimination of many routes over and through the the Rockies. Mallard engines were steam-powered locomotives developed in Europe and later versions hold the speed record for this category of engine.
Alda was concerned about the...
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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...