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Locomotive on its side near Kent. Crane at the ready to lift the locomotive. Work crew looking on.
85) 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.
86) Train accident
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Front of engine 1203 at the train accident in Glenwood Springs, 1919. Several crates of lettuce in foreground.
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The D&RG work train stopped at the Kent section house, 1919. The man at left is unidentified; the man at right is "Moier."
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Derailment one mile east of Eagle in 1918. Men working the rails by the cars.
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The local train, stopped at Gypsum, being checked. Inscription reads: "Local."
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1908-1910: Denver & Rio Grande Railroad section crew with hand-car in front of the Avon Depot (also a residence of William Finley Cole and family). Five men are standing on the hand-car, one is standing on track in front of the car. From l. to r.: Mike Kelly, Jack Wellington, Dow Hancock. Some snow is on the ground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
92) "Big Mike"
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"Big Mike" at Kent 1918. Bridge across the Eagle River visible at right midfield.
93) Mrs. Merrill
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Mrs. Merrill [Elnora Green Merrill] walking away from the camera at Wolcott, crossing the railroad tracks. The sign on the building at left says "Saloon." Charles Merrill, Elnora's husband, owned the Wolcott Mercantile company store.
94) Derailment
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Kate Flynn with shovel and construction crew memeber with tamper, used to push dirt under the railroad tires. Kent section house is in the background. There is a bridge over Milk Creek between the crew walking in the background and the section house.
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Two engines meet head-on between Belden and Red Cliff in the Eagle River Canyon. Groups of men in the foreground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
96) 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.
97) Wolcott Depot
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From left, "T. Breen, McCarthy, Joe, Mr. Sullivan" posing in front of the Wolcott depot. Western Union sign at right. Inscription reads: "On their way to Allenton."
98) Town of Eagle
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View of the town of Eagle, Colorado, looking south, up Brush Creek from across the valley. The railroad bridge is in the mid-ground. Broadway is the large, wide street in the center of the photo, running north to south. Ross Chamber's dairy farm is in the lower right hand corner (where the I-70 interchange is now located).
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
99) John Flynn
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John Flynn standing next to the signal at Kent (near Wolcott). John was a railroad telegrapher and a veteran of World War I.
100) Work train crew
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The work train crew posing on the tracks at Kent, 1918.
"Often a work train of the 1880s consisted of just the machine and the locomotive, as cabooses were still too scarce to warrant using one on what many managers saw as unnecessary service. As the years went by, it became common practice to attach a caboose, and/or a tool car, to the train. An extra water car was frequently attached to pile driver trains to reduce the number of times the train...
