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An annual bicycle race sponsored by the Colorado Midland Railroad. It ran from Basalt to Glenwood Springs.
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A nationwide strike of shop workers, who mobilized to prevent wage cuts, for better working hours, and to prevent their replacement by non-union workers. Colorado railroad workers also took part. According to Frank Simonetti Sr., who began working in the Grand Junction, Colorado roundhouse in 1922, workers in the shop struck and the D&RG responded with a lockout of workers. Scabs were hired and given a place to sleep so that they would not have to...
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A fire on June 27, 1943 that was caused by the heating of U.S. Army munitions aboard a freight train during World War II. Raymond Edward Myers was a carman who worked for the D&RG. According to Myers, he was sent by the railroad to Rifle to repair a car on a West-bound ammunition train that day. He did so, and he and the crew rode the train to Grand Junction. Just past De Beque, the crew noticed a hotbox (an overheated axle) in a car in the middle...
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Robbers stole a safe from the post office. It was suspected that the robbers were holed up in the Palisade Mine, and so guards, including Virgil Hickman, were posted outside of the mine. The robbers were never caught, though the safe was found without its contents along the railroad tracks.