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Buildings in Dotsero, from left:
Delco Light Company, which used a gasoline engine to charge batteries. It was a 32 volt light plant after World War II.
Cafe between the Light Company and the Dotsero Drug Company, which may also have been a bar. There were two bars in Dotsero during the railroad years.
Dotsero Drug Company at far right, providing service to railroad construction workers and their families.
4. Shoe shop
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Photo postcard, handcolored, 15797: Bridge over the Colorado River on the Dotsero Cutoff.
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"'The Pagodas' in Red Canon, Colorado River. The Dotsero Cutoff, 38.1 miles long, is the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad's latest construction, connecting Dotsero, 17 miles east of Glenwood Springs, with Orestod, on the Moffat Road. This reduces the distance 175 miles from Denver to Glenwood Springs, Salt Lake City and beyond. Ceremonies...
6. Dotsero cafe
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A cafe next to the Dotsero Drug Company, one of the buildings left from the railroad boom at Dotsero. There are two men seated outside the cafe. It probably also functioned as one of two bars in town (the other was located on Riverside Way on the river bank). The photo was printed April 2, 1933.
Duplicate photo in 2008.015.