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A panoramic photograph taken from the Beck family yard as the last Union Pacific freight train to travel through Red Cliff rolls by. The tracks are visible with the Pine St. viaduct at far left. Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church is right of the viaduct and a small group of people are watching the train from the churchyard. August 1997 "Union Pacific has pulled the last of its cross-country freight trains from the Tennessee Pass route, which...
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A panoramic photograph taken from the Beck family yard, waiting for the last Union Pacific train to travel through Red Cliff. The tracks are visible with the Pine St. viaduct at far left. Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church is right of the viaduct. "Union Pacific has pulled the last of its cross-country freight trains from the Tennessee Pass route, which averaged 12 trains a day through Eagle County. ... Union Pacific, as a part of its acquisition...
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Looking from the Fleming lumberyard at left, down to the Beck house below, which is on fire. A crowd of onlookers is gathered while a train passes in the background. The fire burned the roof and second story.
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Fleming Lumber Company framing mill in Red Cliff, Colorado. Man in midground is working on framing timbers. Steps and fence in foreground. Equipment on top road in background was being used to prepare road for the construction of the Red Cliff bridge (Hwy 24). [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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The front of Fear's Standard Service station in Red Cliff, Colorado. Gas pumps are visible at left and there is snow on the ground.
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Don Wilson and Angela Beck on March 20, 2014, in Red Cliff.
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Piles of lumber in the Fleming Lumber yard, as seen from Joe Beck's back yard. Water Street runs between Beck's and the lumber yard.
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Scruffy, Mike and Smoky (the dog) on the steps at the Beck house. Fleming Lumber's framing house is behind them. In the left background is Tib Montoya's house. At upper right is a good example of fingerprinting on photographs.
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Buster Beck standing in front of the doors of the Holy Cross Garage in Red Cliff. "The doors in the background were used every day so it can be assumed that the accumulation of ice took place over night." -- T. Bud Beck
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Horses Tom and Dick tethered to a wagon. Tom and Dick were the team that moved Dessie, Earl and Theodore Beck from Salida to Red Cliff. "The Earl Beck family moved into town sometime after Jan. 14, 1923, when I was born, and before March 2, 1925, when Buster was born, but I have never known just exactly when. We lived for a short while in a house on Monument Street and then moved down to the lower end of town on Water Street. We rented for a while...
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Red Cliff with Ft. Arnett and the railroad bridge visible at right midground. [One of a series of ten photographs included in postal mailer: Frashers Quality Photos, Ten Scenic Views souvenir from Canon City to Leadville, Colo. Frashers, Inc., Pomona, Calif. Required 2 cents postage.]
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December 1951 snow at the Beck's house on Water Street in Red Cliff.
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A panoramic photograph taken from the Beck family yard as the last Union Pacific train to travel through Red Cliff rolls by. The tracks are visible with the Pine St. viaduct at far left. Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church is right of the viaduct and a small group of people are watching the train from the churchyard. "Union Pacific has pulled the last of its cross-country freight trains from the Tennessee Pass route, which averaged 12 trains...
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A panoramic photograph taken from the Beck family yard as the last Union Pacific train to travel through Red Cliff rounds the curve. The tracks are visible with the Pine St. viaduct at far left. Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church is right of the viaduct. "Union Pacific has pulled the last of its cross-country freight trains from the Tennessee Pass route, which averaged 12 trains a day through Eagle County. ... Union Pacific, as a part of...
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Joe H. Fear standing in front of Fear's Standard Service Station in Red Cliff, Colorado.
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Buster Beck (L) and Bob (Charles Robert) Warren on horseback on Water Street, Red Cliff. "Twin houses" in right background. Fleming Lumber Company at upper left background. "Lou Brady was the last owner of the twin houses. He lived in one and was tearing down the other one for firewood. After he died, Alan Albert, school teacher, helped tear down the one Brady lived in and they found some money hidden in the wall."--Angela Beck
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A panoramic photograph taken from the Beck family yard as the last Union Pacific train to travel through Red Cliff passes under the viaduct. The tracks are visible with the Pine St. viaduct at far left. Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church is right of the viaduct. "Union Pacific has pulled the last of its cross-country freight trains from the Tennessee Pass route, which averaged 12 trains a day through Eagle County. ... Union Pacific, as...
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Cement curb work at Fear's Standard Service. Joe Fear is fourth from the left.
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Looking west on Water Street, Red Cliff, Colorado, in the winter. The horses and corral were the property of the Fleming Lumber Company; framing house on the right hand side of the street. First house on the left belonged to Tom Collins; second house was Earl Beck's. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Photo postcard of Sadie Beck and Dessie Tomlin Beck hugging in front of a log cabin, probably at Monarch, Colorado.