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41) Dump Truck
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Construction and maintenance of roads in Eagle County, Colorado, using a dump truck. There is a man working and a child watching in the far right corner.
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First use of road maintenance equipment in Eagle County, Colorado, using a steam shovel and a front loader to clear dirt and rocks. There is a man standing in the controls cabin with only his head visible. "Eagle County" has been painted on the side of the machine.
43) Grading Roads
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First use of mechanized graders on gravel roads in Eagle County, Colorado.
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Harold Steinmeyer directing road clearing on the lower road to Rock Creek. Highway 24 is in the background.
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Blasting to create a road to the approach to the new Red Cliff arch bridge. Railroad bridge over the Eagle River visible at right foreground.
[Red Cliff Bridge construction photo 5]
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Looking up from the arch girders to the support beams of the roadbed in the Red Cliff Bridge. One man is at a girder at the far right; another is standing on the arch right below the roadbed at left.
[Red Cliff Bridge construction photo 10]
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Taken from the Beck family's house, the Fleming Lumber framing yard is at midfield with Al Mann working on timbers. There is a shovel on the old road at the top of the photo, working on a road detour.
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George Nimon on Holt tractor during road construction on Brush Creek.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
