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A view of the lettuce sheds at Allenton taken from the south side of the Eagle River in 1932 near Edwards, Colorado. Railroad facilities in the background.
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Wagonloads of potatoes and hay brought to the Eagle Depot to be loaded onto D&RG cars. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Ranchers loading bags of wool at the depot in Eagle. Horse teams are dragging the skids.
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Ranchers loading bags of wool at the depot in Eagle. Horse teams are dragging the skids. Caption: "Loading part of $20,600 wool shipment from Eagle, Colorado."
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Men on wagons loaded with potato sacks lined up to load freight cars (Denver & Rio Grande Railroad) at the Eagle Depot (visible at far left). [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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1939: Burns Stockyard, November 1939, loading cattle into cattle cars. (Denver & Rio Grande Railroad) Two cowboys on ramps loading cattle; one man on track siding, left midground; woman holding child standing in empty corral behind horses. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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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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A group of men and boys sitting at the railroad yard in Gypsum. Rail cars and facilities are in the background. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Eagle Valley Feed Mill pictured sometime between 1912 and 1917 in Eagle, Colorado. A man is standing out front while another sits in the car parked out front. On the right side of the photograph is the railroad with cars lined up. A hitchpost is in front of the building for horses. A telephone/electric pole can also be seen on the right side-- despite being rural mountainous areas, the Gypsum and Eagle valleys were some of the first to use hydroelectric...