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A view of Salida, Colorado taken from the Arkansas Hills. Denver & Rio Grande Cattle Lots are visible, as is the Edison Electric Light Company smoke stacks.
Bob Rush Collection.
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A view of Salida from Tenderfoot Mountain.
Bob Rush Collection.
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A photograph of Salida taken on Tenderfoot Mountain after 1890.
Ernest Brownson Collection.
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A view of Salida, Colorado from Tenderfoot Mountain.
Bob Rush Collection.
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A photograph of Salida taken on Tenderfoot Mountain before 1890.
Ernest Brownson Collection.
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A view of early-day Salida taken from Tenderfoot Mountain.
Bob Rush Collection.
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A view of the town of Salida, Colorado, with Methodist Mountain in the background.
Bob Rush Collection.
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Although most of the mess from the January 1888 fire is cleaned up in this summer photo, evidence can still be seen. Despite a massive rebuilding effort – mostly in brick this time – there are still many open lots along F Street above First Street. Rubble from the fire is visible where it was dumped along the bank of the Arkansas River near the F Street Bridge. After two major fires, it is interesting to note how much larger the area that is today...
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Construction of the D Street suspension bridge was an early priority of the Denver & Rio Grande because so many of its shop workers and yard hands lived on that side of town. The bridge shortened their walk to work.
On May 30, 1904, over a thousand people were milling about downtown Salida for the Memorial Day celebration and 20-30 were on the footbridge, watching the festivities upstream.
Everyone on the bridge leaned on the upstream side of...
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The D Street Suspension Bridge with the Denver & Rio Grande Railyards in the background.
Virgil Jackson Collection.
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Denver & Rio Grande Across the Grand River at Glenwood Springs.
Virgil Jackson Collection.
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Men pose in front of a caboose in the Denver & Rio Grande Railyards in Salida, Colorado.
Virgil Jackson Collection.
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Photo of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Depot and the Monte Cristo Hotel, taken by John Kratky, who lived in Salida between 1912-1920.
Josephine Soukup Collection.
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Denver & Rio Grande Engine No. 106 with crew in the Salida railyards.
Bob Rush Collection.
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Denver & Rio Grande No. 168, photo taken between 1900 – 1902. Henry Harvard Haley is on the right.
Haley-Bratton Collection.
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Denver & Rio Grande locomotive #1063. Image taken by John Kratky.
Josephine Soukup Collection.
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Denver & Rio Grande locomotive No. 83 was in use here as a switch engine, and was posed on the mainline, with the rebuilt machine shop behind. Notice the front and rear arc headlamps in use on this Baldwin engine, the last Class 56 narrow-gauge 2-8-0 to be built, having entered service in 1881. The engine’s pilot truck had been removed, which converted No. 83 into an 0-8-0.
Alice Chinn Collection.
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Construction of the machine shops, dated August 28, 1923.
Harry Williams Collection.
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Construction of the backshop and roundhouse, dated August 28, 1923.
Harry Williams Collection.
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Hundreds of men were employed in the D&RG machine shops in Salida. It was the largest, most complete repair shop between Denver and Salt Lake City and could repair or rebuild any kind of disaster that might befall a locomotive or piece of rolling stock. On several occasions the crew built locomotives using spare parts from others. Maintenance was a large part of the work here. John Ophus Collection.
