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Photograph of the left side of engine #319 and the tender.
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Photograph of the left side of narrow gauge engine #319, Denver & Rio Grande line, in the Durango yards.
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Photo of the oldest engine in Colorado, #346. Clear, blue skies overhead.
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Photo postcard, handcolored, 15797: Bridge over the Colorado River on the Dotsero Cutoff.
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"'The Pagodas' in Red Canon, Colorado River. The Dotsero Cutoff, 38.1 miles long, is the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad's latest construction, connecting Dotsero, 17 miles east of Glenwood Springs, with Orestod, on the Moffat Road. This reduces the distance 175 miles from Denver to Glenwood Springs, Salt Lake City and beyond. Ceremonies...
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1930s: Rio Grande Railroad crane dropping section of bridge span into place, guided by men at either end of the span. Eagle River visible at left (Eagle, Colorado).
"The Rio Grande Railroad began construction of the steel railroad bridge at Eagle in 1934." -- Those Were the Days, EVE Jan. 22, 2004 p.2
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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1934: Rio Grande Railroad crane dropping section of bridge span into place. Men at either end of the span are waiting to assist the crane.. Eagle River visible in foreground (Eagle, Colorado).
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A map showing railroad lines in Colorado and New Mexico.
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This photograph of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Station in Gilman, Colorado was taken around 1896. The photographer is identified as C. W. Erdlen.
11) 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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Shows two sets of railroad tracks and a river. Colorado Central Railroad: to Central City, right; to Georgetown, left.
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Steam engine number 478 of the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad traveling through a snowy landscape billowing puffs of white smoke.
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The Eagle River at Edwards [Wilmore stop]. Lettuce shed next to the railroad with the old water tank in the background. Benny Klatt's home and small store on Highway 6. Benny Klatt was killed by his brother-in-law, William Wellington, over the ownership of the cabin in which Wellington lived.
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A steam engine, trimmed in yellow with lettering on coal-cart and cab: "DENVER & RIO GRANDE WESTERN", "318".
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Colorado & Southern engine No. 30.
Leonard Perschbacher Collection.
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Roundhouse tracks and railroad yards, Durango, Colorado. Hans Will owned Richey's in Durango, Colorado.
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A silver U. S. mail rail truck, the Galloping Goose, sits on railroad tracks, a snow plow attached to the front.
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Picture of The Durango and Silverton Train chugging along the tracks through the trees.
