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Train wreck in the Eagle Canyon near Gilman on April 13, 1899.
Publication: Eagle County Blade (Red Cliff, Eagle County); Date:1899 Apr 13; Section:None; Page Number: 4
"A Bad Wreck" The Locomotive and Three Freight Cars Plunge Into the River.
About 1 o'clock Monday night, an east bound freight train was wrecked in Eagle Canon near Rock Creek. The engine struck a large rock that had fallen from the perpendicular cliffs...
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Box cars moved off D&RG tracks at Belden after the 1919 landslide.
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Train wreck in Eagle Canyon near Gilman on April 13, 1899. Men examining the wreckage with the Denver & Rio Grande engine in the water.
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D.&R.G. engine wrecked at Belden. Caption: "Malley"
Crane being used to right the engine; Eagle River in the foreground.
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D.&R.G. engine wrecked at Belden. Caption: "Malley"
Crane being used to right the engine.
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Looking south along the railroad tracks at Belden towards the Belden mill. Destroyed cribbing on the left and debris on the tracks in the background.
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Verso: "railroad bridge down below Belden and Gilman"
The bridge crosses the Eagle River in the Eagle River Canyon.
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The Belden facility showing the loading and processing facilities. Railroad cars waiting to be loaded are in the background. Directly above them are some of the old mines started in the late 1800s. The photo was taken from the dump at Gilman, looking down on Belden.
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Belden below Gilman in the Eagle River Canyon. Railroad siding, water tower, wagons, and equipment visible. Photo labeled: "On D.&R.G., Eagle River Canon, 293, Brisbois Photo, Leadville, Colo."
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Mr. Spear shoveling debris and mud from the platform at Belden, below Gilman in the Eagle River Canyon. Tram tracks are at the right; railroad tracks are in the foreground.
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Path of the mud flow from the 1919 landslide at Belden. The cribbing at the top left of the photo is broken and the mud flows around some buildings, over additional cribbing, over the railroad tracks, and into the Eagle River at the bottom. The flow parallels the path of the tram to Gilman, which was not damaged.
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A surface tram used to move ore and equipment is on the left coming into Belden from Gilman at the top. Loading tippel, steam room and the dryer buildings are pictured in the lower right.
14) Belden
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The Belden processing and shipping area for the ore that was mined at Gilman Mine. The loading tippel is the first building on the left (white); next is the steam room and then the dryer.
Box cars are lined up on the tracks by the loading tippel. The box cars at the center of the photo are underneath the Ben Butler Mine.
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Eagle Mine (New Jersey Zinc Co.) showing the rail access at Belden, looking down. Depot structures and mine buildings visible at the bottom of the canyon. The town of Gilman would be at the top of the escarpment.
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Looking down at the Eagle River in Eagle Canyon, at a portion of the railroad tracks at Belden.
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Broken cribbing and mud covering railroad tracks and filling the Eagle River after a landslide in 1919.
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The Eagle Lumber Co. loading shed for the Denver & Rio Grand railroad at Peterson Creek gulch in the Eagle River Canyon (about .5 mi. from Red Cliff and 2 mi. from Belden). The logs were sent down on the surface tram running down the gulch in this photo and then loaded on train cars. There is another set of main line tracks across the Eagle River (at the bottom of the photo). The small building at the right is the tram house. Above that, there...
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Looking at Belden, at the bottom of the Eagle River Canyon, below Gilman, from the surface tram. The railroad siding was where chemicals were off loaded and ore was loaded into freight cars. The power plant sits across the Eagle River, accessible by a foot bridge. A group of men are gathered at the center of the photo.
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Looking down the surface tram rails to Belden. The railroad tracks across the Eagle River are visible at the bottom.
