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A panoramic photograph taken from the Beck family yard as the last Union Pacific train to travel through Red Cliff rolls by. The tracks are visible with the Pine St. viaduct at far left. Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church is right of the viaduct and a small group of people are watching the train from the churchyard.
"Union Pacific has pulled the last of its cross-country freight trains from the Tennessee Pass route, which averaged 12 trains...
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A panoramic photograph taken from the Beck family yard as the last Union Pacific train to travel through Red Cliff rounds the curve. The tracks are visible with the Pine St. viaduct at far left. Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church is right of the viaduct.
"Union Pacific has pulled the last of its cross-country freight trains from the Tennessee Pass route, which averaged 12 trains a day through Eagle County. ... Union Pacific, as a part of...
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Buster Beck (L) and Bob (Charles Robert) Warren on horseback on Water Street, Red Cliff. "Twin houses" in right background. Fleming Lumber Company at upper left background.
"Lou Brady was the last owner of the twin houses. He lived in one and was tearing down the other one for firewood. After he died, Alan Albert, school teacher, helped tear down the one Brady lived in and they found some money hidden in the wall."--Angela Beck
25. Cabin
26. Post Office
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A panoramic photograph taken from the Beck family yard as the last Union Pacific train to travel through Red Cliff passes under the viaduct. The tracks are visible with the Pine St. viaduct at far left. Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church is right of the viaduct.
"Union Pacific has pulled the last of its cross-country freight trains from the Tennessee Pass route, which averaged 12 trains a day through Eagle County. ... Union Pacific, as...
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Looking west on Water Street, Red Cliff, Colorado, in the winter. The horses and corral were the property of the Fleming Lumber Company; framing house on the right hand side of the street. First house on the left belonged to Tom Collins; second house was Earl Beck's.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
30. Rhubarb hats
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Buster Beck with grandson, Conrad Fox Beck, wearing the annual Spring rhubarb-leaf hats. Both gentlemen are holding rhubarb stalks. In the background is the end of Monument St. and Leo Medina's house.
"There is a short growing season but somehow we, mostly grandmother Mom, managed to raise carrots, radishes, green onions and leaf lettuce. There were some rhubarb plants and some of the most atomic horseradish ever known to mankind. There were...
31. Water Street
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c.1880: Log cabin used for a school house, Red Cliff, Colorado. There were 5 pupils who attended and Dora McMillan was the teacher. One door, one window shown in a front-view with snow on the ground.
The cabin is behind the Reno Cafe & Bar, 127 Water St., Red Cliff. It has been used for many purposes over the years, including a garage. Jack Ages, Ilene Warren's father, lived there at one point.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle...
34. Tippett's house
35. Water Street
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Tom Collins' barn on Water Street, October 2012. Part of the roof caved in several years before this photo.
"Thomas E. Collins was born Oct. 23, 1893 at Bells Camp, near Red Cliff to James and Charlotta Collins.
He grew to manhood in Red Cliff and was an employee of the Empire Zinc Co. ... Aug. 20, 1919, Mr. Collins and Mrs. Fannie E. Law were married and made their home in Red Cliff." -- Eagle Valley Enterprise Dec. 20, 1956 p.1