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View of Rock Creek Canyon showing the Moffatt railroad grade at upper right.
"This two and one half miles of railroad track with tunnels No. 45, 46, 47, 48 and the big bridge across the creek was considered the costliest piece of grade on the railroad. A high bridge across the canyon in the foreground could have eliminated all this costly construction and maintenance and such a bridge was contemplated, but steel for the structure was unobtainable...
3. Belden
6. Belden
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"Eagle River Canon, Colo., D. & R. G. Ry." Tinted photo postcard shows mine cribbing and mine buildings above Belden with the rail tracks and Eagle River at the bottom.
Verso: No. C8708 Published by The Colorado News Company, Denver, Colo., Dresden-Leipzig-Berlin. Trademark [Corson #632] for American News Co., New York, NY, Litho-chrome process.
10. Wreck at Belden
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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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...
17. Train in canyon
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A Zephyr wreck in Glenwood Canyon. On March 29, 1968, a passenger train was passing through Glenwood Canyon near Grizzly Creek when it derailed. Two of the diesel locomotives, F9A 5774 and F9B 5773, were later retired and sold for scrap to Barter Machinery & Supply Company out of Denver in May of 1969. Motorists can be seen on the other side of the river observing the wreck,
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A view of the long flume on the Conger Mesa Ditch. [photo says 1910, McCoy Memoirs says 1909].
"The Conger Mesa irrigation ditch in 1909 was nearly three fourths wooden flume in Rock Creek Canyon. A year later, this section of the flume went out resulting in major catastrophe for the Railroad and Ditch Company. Nearly 200 feet of track was covered with mud and rock to a depth of from five to sixteen feet and required 200 men working in ten hour...