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21) Dam at Shoshone
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Dam at Shoshone on the Colorado River in Glenwood Canyon, seen from the railroad tracks.
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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...
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The Central Colorado Power House located about one-half mile below the present Shoshone Dam in Glenwood Canyon.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Bill Luby's automobile parked at the Shoshone Power Plant in Glenwood Canyon.
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The Belden facility showing the loading and processing facilities. Railroad cars waiting to be loaded are in the background. Directly above them are some of the old mines started in the late 1800s. The photo was taken from the dump at Gilman, looking down on Belden.
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Eagle Canyon, with Battle Mountain on the right. Belden and the Eagle River would be at the bottom of the canyon on the left.
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A surface tram used to move ore and equipment is on the left coming into Belden from Gilman at the top. Loading tippel, steam room and the dryer buildings are pictured in the lower right.
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Looking down at the Eagle River in Eagle Canyon, at a portion of the railroad tracks at Belden.
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Discarded tires rolled off Highway 24 at Battle Mountain form a tire staircase in the Eagle River Canyon. Rock climbers in the canyon built the staircase to assist in reaching climbing areas.
From Angela Beck:
"After the trains quit running, we walked the RR tracks to Belden. People rock climb in the Eagle River Canyon. (Newcomers call it the Gilman Gorge.) Some people get rid of their old tires by rolling them off Battle Mountain (Hwy 24) into...
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"Ivan Staton and his cousin, Glenwood Springs, Colo on Colorado River, 1922?" - caption from family.
31) In the creek
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Ivan Staton's cousin (unidentified) sits in the Colorado River in Glenwood Canyon.
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A postcard of the Grand River (now the Colorado River) in the Grand River Canyon (now Glenwood Canyon). The first tunnel of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad in Glenwood Canyon is visible on the left.
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A postcard of the Palisades in the Grand River Canyon (now Glenwood Canyon). A passenger train is passing through the canyon. This postcard was sent to Alda Borah from Susie S. Bolt, and is dated July 30, 1917.
34) Tom Knight
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Verso: "Prospector K. looking for--no, not gold, but a drop of water in Fall Creek." "Tom down in the canyon below Gilman"
35) 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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Verso of the Colortone postcard of the Eagle River Canyon and Gilman, sent to Pvt. Tom Fish, U.S. Army, from his mother.
Caption: "2307--Eagle River Canon Empire Zinc Mine, and Gilman as seen from Battle Mountain Highway, Colorado."
"C.T. Art-Colortone," Sanborn Souvenir Co., Denver, Colo.
The postcard is from the collection of William W. Burnett and was used as the cover photo for the 2005 printing of his book, "The Eagle on Battle Mountain at...
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Colortone postcard of the Eagle River Canyon and Gilman, sent to Pvt. Tom Fish, U.S. Army, from his mother.
Caption: "2307--Eagle River Canon Empire Zinc Mine, and Gilman as seen from Battle Mountain Highway, Colorado."
"C.T. Art-Colortone," Sanborn Souvenir Co., Denver, Colo.
The postcard is from the collection of William W. Burnett and was used as the cover photo for the 2005 printing of his book, "The Eagle on Battle Mountain at Gilman, Colorado...
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"On the western slope of the Rocky Mountains the Eagle River takes its rise, and gathering volume from hundreds of snow fed tributaries, rushes down to its junction with the Grand, pouring through the gorge known as Eagle River Cañon. One of the striking features of this cañon is in the fact that its walls are pierced near the summit with the shafts and tunnels of mines, and, looking up the rugged heights, one catches glim[p]ses of the shaft-houses...
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"On the western slope of the Rocky Mountains the Eagle River takes its rise, and gathering volume from hundreds of snow fed tributaries, rushes down to its junction with the Grand, pouring through the gorge known as Eagle River Cañon. One of the striking features of this cañon is in the fact that its walls are pierced near the summit with the shafts and tunnels of mines, and, looking up the rugged heights, one catches glim[p]ses of the shaft-houses...
40) Double track
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"Double Track, Eagle River Canon, Colo." A passenger train in the Eagle River Canyon.
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"Eagle River Canon is between Leadville and Glenwood Springs, and is the center of considerable mining activity. One of the striking features of this Canon is in the fact that its walls are pierced near the summit with the shafts and tunnels of mines, and looking up the rugged heights, one catches glimpses of the shaft houses and...
