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The Eagle River at Edwards [Wilmore stop]. Lettuce shed next to the railroad with the old water tank in the background. Benny Klatt's home and small store on Highway 6. Benny Klatt was killed by his brother-in-law, William Wellington, over the ownership of the cabin in which Wellington lived.
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Cabins built by Nels Yost and rented to railroad construction workers. There are cherry and apple trees behind the cabins, close to the riverbank. They were located north of where the Colorado River Road meets Hwy 6. The photo was printed on April 2, 1933. The automobile at right appears to have a flat tire.
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State Bridge Hotel at State Bridge, Colorado. View from across the railroad tracks, looking at the front of the hotel. The "cutoff" was built in 1934 so these tracks were the Moffat line.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"The old mail carrier at Edwards, W. H. Wellington." -- Esther Klatt
"Dad" Wellington began carrying the mail between the post office in Edwards, Colorado, and the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad station in Edwards on May 13, 1895. He was scheduled for 14 trips per week at a distance of 2,264 feet per trip, using his buckboard pulled by "Faithful Jack." Wellington claimed it was the only mule mail route in the United States."
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Entrance to the Carlton tunnel in 1932, in the snow.
The Busk-Ivanhoe Tunnel was built by the Busk Tunnel Railway Company for the Colorado Midland Railroad in 1891 as a replacement for the Hagerman Tunnel at a lower, more direct route. It connected Aspen and Leadville.
The tunnel was abandoned following Colorado Midland's 1897 bankruptcy and was converted to one-way auto traffic in 1922 as the Carlton Tunnel, a toll tunnel carrying then-State Highway...
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The Flynn Brothers in Minturn, Colorado, May 30, 1933. From Left: Jack, Jim, Bill, and Dan.
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A Zephyr wreck in Glenwood Canyon. On March 29, 1968, a passenger train was passing through Glenwood Canyon near Grizzly Creek when it derailed. Two of the diesel locomotives, F9A 5774 and F9B 5773, were later retired and sold for scrap to Barter Machinery & Supply Company out of Denver in May of 1969. Motorists can be seen on the other side of the river observing the wreck,
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Entrance to the Carlton Tunnel in September 1989.
The Busk-Ivanhoe Tunnel was built by the Busk Tunnel Railway Company for the Colorado Midland Railroad in 1891 as a replacement for the Hagerman Tunnel at a lower, more direct route. It connected Aspen and Leadville.
The tunnel was abandoned following Colorado Midland's 1897 bankruptcy and was converted to one-way auto traffic in 1922 as the Carlton Tunnel, a toll tunnel carrying then-State Highway...
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The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad depot at Red Cliff, taken from across the Eagle River. The river is running high and in it an automobile is submerged to the windows.
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View looking down on the Red Cliff Depot and railroad tracks in 1941.
11. Dotsero cafe
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A cafe next to the Dotsero Drug Company, one of the buildings left from the railroad boom at Dotsero. There are two men seated outside the cafe. It probably also functioned as one of two bars in town (the other was located on Riverside Way on the river bank). The photo was printed April 2, 1933.
Duplicate photo in 2008.015.
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Dotsero Drug Company building, no longer in existence. The building was left after the railroad boom and was used as a house for many years. Kenny Schultz was an occupant. Automobiles and a truck are parked by the building. The photo was printed April 2, 1933.
13. Edwards
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Photo postcard from "Louise" to Mrs. S. S. Wooldridge, 226 1st St., Salida, Colo.", mailed from Edwards, Colo., in 1913. There are four men and a boy standing in a fenced area. Luggage is piled at the right, an automobile is behind the fence. Possibly the depot area at Edwards.
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Verso caption: "George Price, brother-in-law of A. V. Hunter, driving first auto in Eagle Valley in 1903. Picture also shows rock fort protection against the Indians."
There are four people in the automobile. It appears to be parked at a depot, on the right, with rock fortification on the left. Could this possible be Edwards, Colorado, near the Brett Ranch?
This photo is a great example of the effect of rubber cement [used to secure the photo to...
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Mabelle Robertson (later Mrs. Robert Redwood) in front of automobile with Arizona license plates at the Avon Depot. Daughter, Billy Jo, dressed for cold weather, is seated on the hood of the automobile.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
16. Roy McDougall
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Roy McDougall in an automobile in Eagle [possibly Capitol Street].
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Vehicles parked at Camp Hale (dump trucks and passenger cars) in the winter. Train visible in left midground with barracks in the background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Main Street (Railroad Avenue) in Basalt, with the Basalt Drug Co. in the building closest to the photographer.
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From back left, Jim Flynn and Henry Warren, standing behind Roy McDougall and Kate Flynn in the front seat of an automobile.
20. Water Street
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A view of Water Street (right bottom) from the Pine St. bridge. At left is the Canuto Velasquez family home. The railroad tracks are at center bottom. On the hill above Water Street is a house built by Mike Bice.