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Verso: "Don and Tom on Battle Mt. Highway 1930s" The highway was then unpaved and was the only route for workers going to the mine at Gilman.
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Aerial photograph taken by Mayo Lanning on February 3, 1998. Looking west down the Eagle River Valley, following I-70.
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Truck convoy negotiating the Old Battle Mountain Road. The original rock supported roadway is clearly visible [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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An automobile and a snow plow parked next to each other on Tennessee Pass. Several men are standing next to the automobile and it appears to be snowing. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Photo postcard of U.S. Hwy 24 at the top of Tennessee Pass (Alt. 10,240 ft,) between Leadville and Red Cliff, Colorado. [Sanborn W-1181] There is snow on the ground.
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Continuing west on Highway 24 would take you to Minturn. Continuing east would take you to Gilman and Red Cliff. Photo taken by Tom Knight. Tom worked at Gilman as a watchman. Verso: "Looking west down Eagle River. You can see I'm on top of the world. This shows the S curve on the O. to O. [Ocean to Ocean] Highway. We go to work tonight. Don't know what doing." [written by Tom Knight] "Old highway on Battle Mountain" BJS
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Road maintenance machinery on Tennessee Pass in winter. George Nimon and unidentified man standing next to the plow; an unidentified woman standing on the plow. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Photo postcard showing the "New Battle Mountain Highway," U.S. Hwy 24. The view is looking south, going from GIlman to Red Cliff.
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Truck convoy negotiating the Old Battle Mountain Road. The original rock supported roadway is clearly visible. Probably the original image from which the close-up [1984.001.018] was made. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Railroad overpass on Colorado Highway 24 leading to Red Cliff. This was the route to Red Cliff prior to the construction of the Red Cliff arch bridge. [Red Cliff Bridge Construction photo 1]
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Vail Pass, elevation 10,603' . Patchy snow on ground. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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County road maintainer caught in trees above Homestake Creek on the Gold Park Road. Dempsey Perkins (county man in Red Cliff who plowed snow) and Buster Beck were plowing the Gold Park Road for the second day in the Winter of 1952. Something went wrong with the maintainer and it went off the road and over the hill with both men in it. The maintainer hung up on a tree and didn't drop into Homestake Creek. Both men made it out with minor injuries....
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County road maintainer caught in trees above Homestake Creek on the Gold Park Road. Dempsey Perkins (county man in Red Cliff who plowed snow) and Buster Beck were plowing the Gold Park Road for the second day in the Winter of 1952. Something went wrong with the maintainer and it went off the road and over the hill with both men in it. The maintainer hung up on a tree and didn't drop into Homestake Creek. Both men made it out with minor injuries....
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Building the approach to the new Red Cliff arch bridge (Highway 24). Digging equipment at far right midfield in the photo. [Red Cliff bridge construction photo 4]
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Roadbed construction on the Red Cliff Bridge, silver in color. Lover's Leap is on the right. [Red Cliff Bridge construction photo 12]
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Road into Red Cliff, prior to the construction of the Red Cliff Bridge on Hwy 24 (prior to 1941).
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Vail Pass in 1944. Highway unpaved. Patchy snow on ground. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Red Cliff Bridge on U.S. Highway 24, across the canyon of the Eagle River at Red Cliff, Colorado. Completed on July 28, 1941; dedicated and opened to travel on August 3, 1941. Dimensions: 470 ft. long; 209 ft. high; 30-ft. roadway and two 18-inch curbs. The Red Cliff Bridge was entered into the National Register of Historic Places on February 4, 1985, in recognition of its contribution to the heritage of the state of Colorado Buildings in background...
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A postcard of Vail Pass. The postmark is dated October 22, 1951. Following the completion of Highway 6 over the pass, the Eagle County Commissioners asked the state highway board to name the pass Vail Pass, after Charles D. Vail, the chief engineer for the State Highway Department. The request, originally put forth in December of 1939, was approved in 1941. The county commissioners were eager to have the pass named for Vail after local residents near...
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"BATTLE MOUNTAIN is the most striking section of the Pikes Peak Ocean to Ocean Highway between Tennessee Pass and Glenwood Springs. After the town drops down into the picturesque town of Red Cliff, hidden in the valley of the Eagle River, it cuts its way spectacularly along a great series of sheer, pointed, out-jutting white faced cliffs, gradually rising until it travels along the top of the great Eagle River Cañon far below."