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A photo postcard of Henry Owens, standing, and Lemley Gates at the top of the mesa when building the Derby Mesa Road, circa 1923. The men are clearing rock and debris after the road skid has passed.
Facing the Avon Depot building, looking across the platform. There is a man sitting on a bench in front of the Depot, watching a woman walk by. Next to the man, there are two cream cans, one on its side. [Farmers shipped their excess cream to Denver by rail.] There are signs for telegraph services and money orders over the Depot door.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
"A train of freight wagons like these were a common sight on the road between Wolcott and Routt County points, before the advent of the Moffatt Road. By traveling together freighters could lend assistance to one another in case of an equipment breakdown, encountering a mudhole or a steep grade, of which there were many. This photo was taken about a mile north west of McCoy, by A. B. Noyce of Steamboat Springs in the spring of 1903. The three freighters...
1908-1910: Denver & Rio Grande Railroad section crew with hand-car in front of the Avon Depot (also a residence of William Finley Cole and family). Five men are standing on the hand-car, one is standing on track in front of the car. From l. to r.: Mike Kelly, Jack Wellington, Dow Hancock. Some snow is on the ground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
Old State Bridge structure in July of 1983, taken from State Highway 131 (south of the bridge). The southern half of the bridge collapsed soon after this photo was taken. The State Bridge Lodge is in the background.
1913: Minturn roundhouse crash showing Rio Grande engine 513. Minturn as the division point between Glenwood Springs and Salida became an important service stop for the railroad. Onlookers posed in front of the engine which is partially ejected through the roundhouse. Water tank in left background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
Verso: "our home on the Chief Mine dump, Gilman 1941"
Marked with an arrow, the house sits next to a garage. Mine timbers are stacked to right and left. "Dump" refers to the disposal of earth left after ore is extracted.
Additional housing is located above the Knight home.
Train derailment below the depot in Eagle, Colorado, January 10, 1944. Looking toward the depot from the train wreck. A man is standing on the bank looking down at the wreck and at the men working the scene. The depot is visible on the bank as are rail cars.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
"Although not at all in the McCoy area...the Van Camp house in Yampa, an early day stage stop and road house. Note the vegetation growing on the dirt floor [roof]." -- McCoy Memoirs, p.313
The I. D. Van Camp dwelling is circled by an antler fence. Plants (beans) are growing up string trellises. The sod roof is sporting vegetation. Yampa is in Routt County.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
Photo postcard twelve-passenger open touring vehicle labeled: "2," "Seeing Denver." The vehicle is parked along a city street. There are eleven passengers and a driver, including two children. Information stamped on back: "Seeing Denver Automobiles; Seeing Denver Cars; Seeing the Foothills Cars."
Inscription: "Mother," "Pearl Mize"
Beaver near Eagle River. Lettuce shed and railroad siding in background. View is looking to the northeast at Swift Gulch from Emmett Nottingham's old place at Avon.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
Wagonloads of potatoes and hay brought to the Eagle Depot to be loaded onto D&RG cars.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
1921: Explosion during the blasting while constructing the road near Gilman, Colorado. Steam shovel in right mid-ground with explosion at the left.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
Engine No. 211 dead On Marshall Pass, February 21-24, 1899. Marshall Pass, elevation 10,842 ft., in between Salida and Gunnison, Colorado. This was part of Denver & Rio Grande's narrow gauge from Denver to Salt Lake City, 1881-1955.