Gunnison, Colorado
Showing
1 - 4
of 4
, query time: 0.01s
Format:
Postcard
Photo of the oldest engine in Colorado, #346. Clear, blue skies overhead.
Format:
Voice Recording
Nora McGinley Flynn discusses her experience growing up in the Grand Valley in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries, her career as one of Mesa County's early schoolteachers, her family’s involvement with the founding of Grand Junction, and her family’s various employment positions with the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and...
Format:
Voice Recording
Frank Wright talks about his career as a coal boy, firemen, and engineer for the railroad. He also discusses the history of narrow gauge and standard lines in Western Colorado, a railroad strike in which his father was involved, and dealing with snow slides along the tracks. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries, the Museums of Western Colorado and the Mesa County Historical Society....
Format:
Postcard
A black and white photograph of the Galloping Goose on train tracks near Ophir, Colorado.
