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Snow plow on the tracks at Minturn, Colorado, 1919.
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Two engines and a coal car at Minturn, 1919.
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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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The No. 2 train at the Depot in Eagle. "Trains number 1 and 2 were the main passenger trains. They both had diner and Pullman cars. Number 1 came west from Denver and Pueblo, arriving in Minturn at 6:30 p.m. Number 2 arriver in Minturn at 10:20 a.m. Number 1 and 2 used mostly 1100- and 1200-class stem locomotives. Number 2 had to pick up a helper in Minturn to help pull it across Tennessee Pass. Unlike the other, Number 1 and Number 2 didn't...
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Head-on accident at Allenton. Photos from this crash are labeled variously: 1919, 1920 or 1921.
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Head-on collision at Allenton during the winter of 1921 [possibly 1920]. This view shows the locomotives after some of the debris and snow have been removed.
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Work crew removing debris from the scene of a head-on accident at Allenton. Photos from this crash are labeled variously: 1919, 1920 or 1921.
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Wreckage from the head-on accident at Allenton, showing barrels in a crushed car. Photos from this crash are labeled variously: 1919, 1920 or 1921.
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A locomotive on the turntable at Minturn.

10. Head-on

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Head-on accident at Allenton, near Edwards, Colorado, winter of 1920-21.
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A crew with engine 736 at Minturn. Second from left may be Bill Flynn.
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Dan Flynn in the cab of engine 5101. He was an engineer for the Denver & Rio Grande, driving the coal train route from Grand Junction to Aspen.