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View of Rock Creek Canyon showing the Moffatt railroad grade at upper right.
"This two and one half miles of railroad track with tunnels No. 45, 46, 47, 48 and the big bridge across the creek was considered the costliest piece of grade on the railroad. A high bridge across the canyon in the foreground could have eliminated all this costly construction and maintenance and such a bridge was contemplated, but steel for the structure was unobtainable...
2) Table Rock
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Rock Creek Canyon and Table Rock with snow in 1917, taken by Ferdinand Ambos.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Lower Rock Creek with Table Rock on the left.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Looking west from Yarmony Mountain down Rock Creek. The McCoy area is in the distance.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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With Battle Mountain in the background, the shaft house of the main entrance to the Gilman mine on Highway 24 is at midground. The waste dump from the mine is below the shaft house with the Rock Creek settlement to the left of the dump.
[picture cut from magazine]
