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A panoramic view of Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park.
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Real black and white photo postcard of narrow gauge locomotive 319, in Durango, Colorado.
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In image at lower left: Del Norte Studio/ Del Norte, Colo.; In image at lower right: Barbecue- Hooper, Colorado/ Sept. 7, 1950/ Celebration of standard gauge equipment on R.R.
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Narrow Gauge Railroad steaming toward historic Silverton, Colorado with the scenic San Juan Mountains in the Background.
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Several donkeys stand near railroad tracks on the Colorado Midland Railway near Ruedi. A railroad switch is visible near the tracks.
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Dudley Mitchell discusses aspects of early Mesa County life, with an emphasis on the variety of jobs he worked for the railroad. He also discusses the change from locomotive steam engines to diesel engines, how trains were built, the way railroads advertised, and the changes railroads went through over the years. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries, the Museums of Western Colorado...
32) Ruedi
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A valley near Ruedi. Railroad tracks from the Colorado Midland Railway are visible.
33) Old quarry
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Steam engine of the Colorado Midland Railroad, passing the old quarry at Thomasville. Thomasville was/is located east of Basalt.
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Vernon Summer is interviewed by Bill McKelvie and Rod Herman about his memories of the railroad that provided passenger and freight service to Routt County, Colorado.
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Dorothy Wither is interviewed by Bill McKelvie about her memories of the railroad that provided passenger and freight service to Routt County, Colorado.
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From stories by Errett Albritton and interviews with Vernon Summer, Bob Wither, and Dorothy Wither, Rod Herman relays the history of the railroad that provided passenger and freight service to Routt County, Colorado.
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Picture of the Bar D Lines Railroad passenger train loaded with people in front of the Dalton Depot, located at the Bar D Chuckwagon in Durango, Colorado.
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Color photo of the Denver and Rio Grande Narrow Gauge Train traveling along the sheer edge of a cliff.
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Small pamphlet describing the history of narrow gauge railroads in Colorado. 80 pages. Includes black and white photographs and maps. Written by Frank R Hollenback.
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Frank Simonetti Sr. talks about his arrival in the United States from southern Italy in 1914 and his eventual arrival in Grand Junction, Colorado in 1918, where he began a long career with the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. He remembers a fire that burnt down the D&RG icehouse, the railroad shop strike in 1922, and working a seven-day work week for thirty years. He recalls different kinds of locomotives. Angela Simonetti recalls growing up in the...
