Denver and Rio Grande Railroad
Showing
1 - 15
of 15
, query time: 0.01s
Format:
Image
View of the Old Coach School, Bond, Colorado, used 1935 to Oct. 23, 1938. Dining car donated by the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad to be used as a school for children of railroad workers. Steps for entry at both ends of the car; chimney at left end.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
Format:
Image
Nine school children (seven girls, two boys) of the Old Coach School, Bond, Colorado, 1938, standing in front of the school. These were children of railroad employees. Small dog stands at left in back row.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
Format:
Image
Railroad accident at Glenwood Springs. Close up of D. & R. G. car 060589 with debris in foreground.
Format:
Image
Four men involved with the clean-up of the Ice Train wreck in Red Cliff are standing on the tracks in the snow next to a box car.
"Ice Train runs away on grade below Pando," Eagle Valley Enterprise Jan. 6, 1928 p.1
Format:
Image
Onlookers at the train accident in Glenwood Springs, 1919. Piles of destroyed freight (potatoes? lettuce?) are in the background.
Format:
Image
Front of engine 1203 at the train accident in Glenwood Springs, 1919. Several crates of lettuce in foreground.
Format:
Image
Several individuals wait to board a passenger train at the Minturn depot on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. Taken in 1915. A note on the back reads, "Taken at Minturn, Colo. on Rio Grande Ry at noon U.W. Band Tour of Western States, 1915." The University of Wisconsin-Madison band, under the leadership of Charles "Charlie" Mann, toured the Western United States in 1915, before performing at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, which was...
Format:
Image
Crane lifting a car at Glenwood after an accident. Crates of lettuce are in foreground. Two men with backs to the camera are working the site.
Format:
Image
The "Big Hook" steam-powered wrecker, based in Grand Junction, moving the Ice Train engine into an upright position. Damaged box car in foreground.
"Volunteer labor was called for and many miners from this place went to work with the men rushed to the scene by the railroad company to clear the line."
"Ice Train runs away on grade below Pando," Eagle Valley Enterprise Jan. 6, 1928 p.1
10) Ice Train Wreck
Format:
Image
Ice train wreck in Red Cliff. Ice was being transported from Pando to the ice houses in Minturn, Colorado, to be used in refrigerator cars. The brakes on the train froze and the train wrecked in the Red Cliff city limits. Several men are examining the wreckage.
The accident occurred December 31, 1927.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
11) Ice Train Wreck
Format:
Image
Destroyed rail cars from the ice train wreck in Red Cliff. Pieces of cars and ice blocks are visible on the site.
The accident occurred December 31, 1927.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
12) Ice Train Wreck
Format:
Image
"Denver & Rio Grande freight train of fourty-four cars, loaded with ice from the Pando ice pond, ran away last Saturday morning [Dec. 31, 1927] and the entire train and engine piled up in an awful mess of jumbled ice, broken wood and crumpled steel just west of the depot here [Red Cliff], blocking both main line tracks..." "Ice Train runs away on grade below Pando," Eagle Valley Enterprise Jan. 6, 1928 p.1
The photograph shows the top of the wreckage...
Format:
Image
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad engine 1709 passes through Dotsero in 1939. Engine 1709 was a 4-8-4 type locomotive. The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad commissioned 19 of these locomotives between 1929 and 1938. All 19 were scrapped between 1951 and 1959. This photograph was taken by Otto Perry.
Format:
Image
The Belden mill and tram in Eagle Canyon, below Gilman. Railroad tracks at bottom right in photo. Taken after the 1919 landslide.
Format:
Image
An unidentified Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad employee walks in front of the coaling tower, or coaling station, at Minturn. Taken in the 1930s or 1940s. Railroad cars are visible on the right.
"Harold Bellm Collection"
