Eagle River Canyon, Colorado
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1) Belden
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Railroad tracks running through Belden in the Eagle River Canyon. The New Jersey Zinc Co. used the railroad to ship ore from the Gilman mines located above Belden.
"After the trains quit running, Buster and I walked the railroad tracks." -- Angela Beck Oct. 11, 2010; photo taken August 1998.
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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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The Belden mill and tram in Eagle Canyon, below Gilman. Railroad tracks at bottom right in photo. Taken after the 1919 landslide.
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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.
10) Railroad bridge
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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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Verso: "D&RG RR train passing through Belden in the Eagle Canyon 1930s"
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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.
17) 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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A postcard showing a double tunnel in the Eagle River Canyon. Buildings from Gilman are visible on the cliffs above the canyon.
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Looking down at the Eagle River in Eagle Canyon, at a portion of the railroad tracks at Belden.
