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Gilbert Limberg talks about growing up in Grand Junction, Colorado in a boarding house run by his mother, and later on a small farm on Old River Road. He also discusses his career as a boilermaker for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, his ownership of the Artesia Motel on Orchard Mesa, his work repairing machines that were used to first pave Grand Junction’s streets in 1925, and the Uintah Railway. His wife Loretta Limberg also offers her occasional...
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Frank Chiaro describes his life as the child of Italian immigrants, farm life in the Pomona area of Mesa County, Colorado, and his various jobs, including his work as a boilermaker for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. He also talks about the second incarnation of his railroading career as a clerk, about mail cars and mail clerks, about the Durham Stockyards and the many livestock trains departing Grand Junction, and about water towers for steam...