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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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Railroad accident at Glenwood Springs. Close up of D. & R. G. car 060589 with debris in foreground.
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Fred and Freda Martinez at the Eagle depot in 1917. Fred was the popular D.&R.G. station agent at Eagle for many years.
Eagle Valley Enterprise Mar. 7, 1919 p.1: "Word was received in Eagle last Friday to the effect that the Federal grand jury in session in Denver had freed Fred Martenez [sic.], former D. & R.G. agent at Eagle, of the charge of swindling the company. Martinez and a foreman in charge of a gang of Mexican workingmen employed at this...
44) Robert Collett
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Small boy standing in front of a box car at the train station. Caption: "Robert Collett, 509 8th St., Glenwood Spgs, Colo."
45) Early Gypsum
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Early Gypsum where tents provided original services: hotel, stores, saloon, restaurant. Meals at the Eagle Hotel were 35 cents, a bed was 25 cents. All of these services were located across from the train depot. The location is close to present day Railroad Ave. and Second Street.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
46) Train derailment
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Train derailment at the west switch at Kent. "Jim Flynn's train, no one got hurt."
47) Train accident
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Onlookers at the train accident in Glenwood Springs, 1919. Piles of destroyed freight (potatoes? lettuce?) are in the background.
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Railroad accident at Glenwood Springs. Onlookers are being photographed in front of the wreckage.
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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.]
50) Ice Train Wreck
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Ice train wreck above Minturn. Ice and debris scattered on the hillside down to the Eagle River. Photo is labeled 1918. A previous photo 1982.081.008 appears to be the same derailment but is labeled 1914-15.
51) Train accident
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Front of engine 1203 at the train accident in Glenwood Springs, 1919. Several crates of lettuce in foreground.
52) 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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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.]
55) Eagle Street
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A view of Eagle Street in Red Cliff, taken from the railroad tracks (at right). From left, the tall white building with a small steeple is the old town hall and fire house. The hose drying chamber is an attachment on the back of the building. Next, across the street is the Community Church with dark steeple. The railway viaduct to Pine Street is at far right.
57) Ice Train Wreck
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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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Derailment one mile east of Eagle in 1918. Men working the rails by the cars.
60) Railroad yard
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A group of men and boys sitting at the railroad yard in Gypsum. Rail cars and facilities are in the background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
