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41) Train derailment
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Train derailment at the west switch at Kent. "Jim Flynn's train, no one got hurt."
42) Train accident
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Onlookers at the train accident in Glenwood Springs, 1919. Piles of destroyed freight (potatoes? lettuce?) are in the background.
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Railroad accident at Glenwood Springs. Onlookers are being photographed in front of the wreckage.
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Train derailment below the depot in Eagle, Colorado, January 10, 1944. Two cars overturned with wheel carriages visible amid debris. Snowy fields in background. Taken from a little different perspective than 1984.001.008
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
45) Ice Train Wreck
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Ice train wreck above Minturn. Ice and debris scattered on the hillside down to the Eagle River. Photo is labeled 1918. A previous photo 1982.081.008 appears to be the same derailment but is labeled 1914-15.
46) Train accident
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Front of engine 1203 at the train accident in Glenwood Springs, 1919. Several crates of lettuce in foreground.
47) Charcoal kilns
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"Char-coal kiln used in making charcoal for smelter 1890 in Colo." -- verso
Three kilns located next to a railroad track and boxcar for the transportation of the finished charcoal. Wood stacked at left, prior to loading the kilns. A. P. Rundell is standing on top of the first kiln with four other men visible.
From Jimmy Blouch on location: "My first guess is Mitchell, on Tennessee Pass.
Mitchell is/was on the west side of Tennessee Pass. As one...
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Train derailment below the depot in Eagle, Colorado, January 10, 1944. Two cars overturned with wheel carriages visible amid debris. Snowy fields in background (original photo blurred). Engineer Denny Cornwall was killed in the accident.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
51) Ice Train Wreck
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"Denver & Rio Grande freight train of fourty-four cars, loaded with ice from the Pando ice pond, ran away last Saturday morning [Dec. 31, 1927] and the entire train and engine piled up in an awful mess of jumbled ice, broken wood and crumpled steel just west of the depot here [Red Cliff], blocking both main line tracks..." "Ice Train runs away on grade below Pando," Eagle Valley Enterprise Jan. 6, 1928 p.1
The photograph shows the top of the wreckage...
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Derailment one mile east of Eagle in 1918. Men working the rails by the cars.
54) Railroad yard
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A group of men and boys sitting at the railroad yard in Gypsum. Rail cars and facilities are in the background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The Western Union crew lined up next to an outfit car at Kent, 1917. Inscription reads: "Western Union Boys." They worked on telegraph poles for Western Union and were not railroad employees.
57) Train wreck
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D & RGW passenger train wreck (Engine 1601) on September 5, 1926. Twenty-one people were killed in this incident at the Waco Switch near Granite, Colorado. Granite is south of Leadville approximately 15 miles on Highway 24. Crumpled coach car at midfield with crane above it.
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D & RGW passenger train wreck (Engine 1601) on September 5, 1926. Twenty-one people were killed in this incident at the Waco Switch near Granite, Colorado. Granite is south of Leadville approximately 15 miles on Highway 24. Crane lifting wreckage is working at the left in the photo.
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D & RGW passenger train wreck (Engine 1601) on September 5, 1926. Twenty-one people were killed in this incident at the Waco Switch near Granite, Colorado. Granite is south of Leadville approximately 15 miles on Highway 24. Broken cars are in the river.
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The local train, stopped at Gypsum, being checked. Inscription reads: "Local."
