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Ice train wreck above Minturn. Ice and debris scattered on the hillside down to the Eagle River. Photo is labeled 1918. Men are examining the wreckage.
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Ice train wreck above Minturn. Ice and debris scattered on the hillside down to the Eagle River. Photo is labeled 1918. A previous photo 1982.081.008 appears to be the same derailment but is labeled 1914-15.
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The steam-powered "Big Hook" from Grand Junction lifts the derailed engine of the Ice Train into an upright position. Railroad employees and volunteers from the mine watch. The Ice Train derailed on December 31, 1927.
"Ice Train runs away on grade below Pando," Eagle Valley Enterprise Jan. 6, 1928 p.1
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"Denver & Rio Grande freight train of fourty-four cars, loaded with ice from the Pando ice pond, ran away last Saturday morning [Dec. 31, 1927] and the entire train and engine piled up in an awful mess of jumbled ice, broken wood and crumpled steel just west of the depot here [Red Cliff], blocking both main line tracks..." "Ice Train runs away on grade below Pando," Eagle Valley Enterprise Jan. 6, 1928 p.1
The photograph shows the top of the wreckage...
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Harvesting ice at Pando. Workers on the right are pulling ice chunks to the bank with gaffs. A pair of tongs is in the foreground.
According to the Assessment Roll 1930 Eagle County, the Western Railways Ice Co. (Pando), in School Taxation District Mitchell 2, owned the following, located on railroad property in Minturn:
1 boarding house (18' x 100'), 2 bunk houses (12' x 50'), 1 bunk house (12' x 16'), 1 tool house, 1 boiler house, 1 machine shed...
6) Cutting ice
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Unidentified man cutting blocks of ice from a river. The photo was developed at Ping's Station on Jan. 19, 1941.
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The "Big Hook" steam-powered wrecker, based in Grand Junction, moving the Ice Train engine into an upright position. Damaged box car in foreground.
"Volunteer labor was called for and many miners from this place went to work with the men rushed to the scene by the railroad company to clear the line."
"Ice Train runs away on grade below Pando," Eagle Valley Enterprise Jan. 6, 1928 p.1
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A view of the ice fields near Pando. The Pando ice plant is visible in the background.
"Ice pond where ice was cut for makes cities, shipped out in train loads." -- Alda Borah
