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1913: Minturn roundhouse crash showing Rio Grande engine 513. Minturn as the division point between Glenwood Springs and Salida became an important service stop for the railroad. Onlookers posed in front of the engine which is partially ejected through the roundhouse. Water tank in left background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Train derailment below the depot in Eagle, Colorado, January 10, 1944. Looking toward the depot from the train wreck. A man is standing on the bank looking down at the wreck and at the men working the scene. The depot is visible on the bank as are rail cars.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Train derailment below the depot in Eagle, Colorado, January 10, 1944. The crane is in place to move the wreckage.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Train derailment below the depot in Eagle, Colorado. Onlookers are standing on the bank looking down at the wreck and at the men working the scene. The train depot is at right with the water tank further along the tracks. The houses at left are off Brooks Lane today.
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Train derailment below the depot in Eagle, Colorado, January 10, 1944. Looking toward the depot from across the frozen lower field and pond at the train wreck. Onlookers are standing on the bank looking down at the wreck and at the men working the scene. There appears to be smoke/steam coming from the wreckage. Water tank visible on the bank.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Close up of the damage done to Engine 1706 and box car after derailing in Eagle, January 10, 1944.
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Train derailment, Engine 1706, below the depot in Eagle, Colorado, January 10, 1944. Large boiler of train with debris in foreground. Bulldozer and man standing to left of boiler. Chambers Ranch visible behind snow-covered field in midground. Castle Peak on left horizon.
Engineer: Denny Cornwall killed
Bulldozer operators: Leland Dean, Van Cleve
Helper: George Yost
Roadmaster: Harold Knudsen (Minturn)
Divisional Engineer:; A. L. Kleine
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Train derailment below the depot in Eagle, Colorado, January 10, 1944. Looking toward the depot bank. Onlookers are standing on the bank looking down at the wreck and at the men working the scene. The crane is in place to move the wreckage.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Train derailment below the depot in Eagle, Colorado, January 10, 1944. The crane is in place to move the wreckage while workers look on. The water tank and depot are visible on the bank.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Train derailment below the depot in Eagle, Colorado, January 10, 1944. Two cars overturned with wheel carriages visible amid debris. Snowy fields in background. Taken from a little different perspective than 1984.001.008
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Train derailment below the depot in Eagle, Colorado, January 10, 1944. Two cars overturned with wheel carriages visible amid debris. Snowy fields in background (original photo blurred). Engineer Denny Cornwall was killed in the accident.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
13) Ice Train Wreck
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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...
15) Ice Train Wreck
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Destroyed rail cars from the ice train wreck in Red Cliff. Pieces of cars and ice blocks are visible on the site.
The accident occurred December 31, 1927.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
16) Ice Train Wreck
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Ice train wreck in Red Cliff. Ice was being transported from Pando to the ice houses in Minturn, Colorado, to be used in refrigerator cars. The brakes on the train froze and the train wrecked in the Red Cliff city limits. Several men are examining the wreckage.
The accident occurred December 31, 1927.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
17) Train wreck
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Train wreckage from a crash. Engine 778 visible; in right midground, two men are examining a car.
Photo rescanned from a better copy owned by Darla Goodale, Minturn, Oct. 26, 2010.
