Denver & Rio Grande Roundhouse (Salida, Colo.)
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Tenderfoot Mountain behind the roundhouse, prior to the 1892 fire.
Alice Chinn Collection.
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All 27 roundhouse tracks and nearly half of the Salida roundhouse itself, are visible in this photograph, taken sometime between 1890 and 1892. Nearly half of the stalls carry four rails to handle both gauges. The 62-foot turntable was used until 1909, when it was replaced with an 80-foot model. Moving counter-clockwise from the roundhouse lead nearest the photographer, the following locomotives are visible:
• narrow-gauge Engine 62, a Baldwin...
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Men pose on locomotive number “218” on the turntable at the Denver and Rio Grande roundhouse and shops in Salida (Chaffee County), Colorado.
Virgil Jackson Collection.
