Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company.
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A man and woman pose outside the Denver and Rio Grande depot.
This image is from the Bob Pierce Collection.
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As many as 100 trains a day passed through Salida – and sometimes there were 15 or more passenger trains. That was apparently the case on this day in 1884. The coaches on the far track are awaiting wash jobs before returning to service. Tenderfoot Mountain is visible in the distance.
Ernest Brownson Collection.
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These images are from the Bob Pierce Photo Collection. Bob worked for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad for nearly 48 years as a supervisory agent, stationed at the railroad offices in Salida, Colorado.
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Bob Pierce stands in a doorway of an outbuilding at the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad yards in Salida, Colorado.
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A photograph of Bob Pierce (at right) with unidentified man and woman on the Denver and Rio Grande station platform in Salida, Colorado.
This image is from the Bob Pierce Collection.
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Bob Pierce (at right) stands with an unidentified gentleman at the Denver and Rio Grande depot in Salida, Colorado. A dog appears to be passing through in foreground.
This image is from the Bob Pierce Collection.
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A photo of Bob Pierce (second from left), supervisory agent with the Denver and Rio Grande, along with some of his railroad buddies.
This image is from the Bob Pierce Collection.
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A photograph of Bob (squatting at front) with some of his railroad colleagues at the Denver and Rio Grande freight house in Salida, Colorado.
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The Art Moderne Style D & RG Railroad Depot was built in the 1940s and torn down in 1985.
This photograph is from the 1981 Architectural Inventory streetscapes.
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Photo of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Depot and the Monte Cristo Hotel, taken by John Kratky, who lived in Salida between 1912-1920.
Josephine Soukup Collection.
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The Art Moderne Style D & RG Railroad Depot was built in the 1940s and torn down in 1985.
Bob Rush Collection.
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Denver & Rio Grande Engine No. 106 with crew in the Salida railyards.
Bob Rush Collection.
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Denver & Rio Grande No. 168, photo taken between 1900 – 1902. Henry Harvard Haley is on the right.
Haley-Bratton Collection.
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The Denver & Rio Grande Western Hospital located at 448 E. 1st St. in Salida, Colorado. This image is from the Salida Museum Negatives Collection.
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The Denver & Rio Grande Hospital at 448 E. 1st St. in Salida, Colorado. This image is from the Salida Museum Negatives Collection.
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Denver & Rio Grande locomotive #1063. Image taken by John Kratky.
Josephine Soukup Collection.
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Image of railroad locomotive engine no. 1440. Taken by John Kratky, who lived in Salida between 1912-1920.
Josephine Soukup Collection.
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Denver & Rio Grande locomotive No. 83 was in use here as a switch engine, and was posed on the mainline, with the rebuilt machine shop behind. Notice the front and rear arc headlamps in use on this Baldwin engine, the last Class 56 narrow-gauge 2-8-0 to be built, having entered service in 1881. The engine’s pilot truck had been removed, which converted No. 83 into an 0-8-0.
Alice Chinn Collection.
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The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad stone depot was built in 1880. Although preparations began a year earlier, the third rail was laid through Salida during 1890. Addition of the outside rail allowed standard gauge as well as narrow gauge trains to operate over the entire Rio Grande system. Switches, frogs and rerailers – especially in the crowded Salida yards – were an engineering marvel. As late as 1890, the tender of this switcher is fitted with...
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Rotary snowplow on Monarch Pass ca. 1907. John Ophus Collection.
