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Documenting the landslide onto the D&RG tracks in Eagle River Canyon. The numbers on the photo correspond to the descriptions below.
Verso: "1. Compressor house; 2. Tram landing; 3. New House tunnel station on tram; I am working on a level with the New House Tunnel, but about ½ miles in the Mtn. Notice how steep the tram is; it's steeper yet before it reaches Gilman." [written by Tom Knight]
162. Water Street
163. Red Cliff Bridge
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Photo postcard showing the Red Cliff Bridge, opened in 1941. A Denver & Rio Grande train is coming from Red Cliff, headed toward Gilman, alongside the very clear Eagle River. At the left is the Lover's Leap cliffs. On the right is the cut in the lower rocks for the road down to Red Cliff.
At the center of the photo above the bridge can be seen the tailings from Hornsilver Mine with Butter Flats (clearing) just above that.
164. Lover's Leap
166. Water Street
167. Water Street
169. 503 Eagle St.
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The Ivan Dump home, Eagle St., Red Cliff. Standing by the gate, left to right: Ernie Dump Dumph, Eddie Dump Dumph, Betty Mae Dump Elsberry.
To the right was the home and garage of Joe Trujillo. The wood garage was replaced in the early 1950s with a cinder block building.
Above the railroad tracks and fence in the upper right is the school and just to the left of the school is the Squire's home (two stories).
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Grace and Emmett Nottingham standing on sledge drawn by horse team in front of the old house in Avon. Dog and cats are around the sledge. View is to the northwest overlooking the future Avon town site. Railroad track visible in background. Harry Nottingham place at Buck Creek is in right background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
171. Loren Arthur
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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...
173. Derailment
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A photograph of the Eagle Valley Feed Mill in downtown Eagle. Edward A. Michael operated the mill between 1912 and 1920, when he sold to Andrew Christensen. Railroad tracks can be seen in the foreground, making this a good location for business and shipment. This photograph is sometime between 1917 and 1920 after the Michael family expanded their operations to stable and livery (the second building with a sign on top reads ""GARAGE LIVERY AND FEED...