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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. A previous photo 1982.081.008 appears to be the same derailment but is labeled 1914-15.
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Kate Flynn photographed after a dance. Caption: "6 o'clock in the morning, coming home from a dance. Ray McDougall took it." There were many entries in the Eagle Valley Enterprise, listing those who attended dances. For example, from the July 23, 1920, edition, p.8: "Misses Katie Flynn and Francis Lloyd attended the dance at Gypsum Friday night."
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Jay McDougall lined up for a shot in a backyard. He is dressed in golfing attire and his golf bag is on the ground behind him. Capiton: "Perfect 36. 36 years old before I tried this foolishness."
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From left, "T. Breen, McCarthy, Joe, Mr. Sullivan" posing in front of the Wolcott depot. Western Union sign at right. Inscription reads: "On their way to Allenton."
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Jay McDougall, Dan Flynn and Ralph Belding standing at the Eagle Depot, 1918. The sign board behind the men says, "Money orders," "July 18, 1918." Ralph Belding owned "Ralph's Store" in Eagle, Colorado.
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Dan Flynn and Fred Martinez standing in a yard in Eagle, 1918. Dan was employed by the D. & R. G. W. railroad at Minturn (1930s).
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Ray Angle, Hazel Harris and Ed Taylor seated on barrels at the Eagle depot in 1920.
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D. & R. G. ditcher 034 at work. Observer on left; work crew on the rail car at right.
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Five members of the Flynn family on Christmas day 1917 at Kent. Kate Flynn is second from left. Railroad track is at right foreground. Section house is in the background. Inscription reads: "A Bunch of Flynns."
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1934: Rio Grande Railroad crane dropping section of bridge span into place. Men at either end of the span are waiting to assist the crane.. Eagle River visible in foreground (Eagle, Colorado).
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Five overalled work crew members at Kent. Kate Flynn is second from left; Jack Flynn is fourth from left.
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The D&RG work train stopped at the Kent section house, 1919. The man at left is unidentified; the man at right is "Moier."
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Shorty Kindvater, standing on the front of an engine.
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D. & R.G. at Eagle station, "taking water." "There was a water tank at Eagle, located a little east of the depot. The water was piped from the water tank to the stand pipe. From the stand pipe, the water goes into the engine's tender to generate steam, steam being the source of engine's power." -- Jimmy Blouch
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Jim Flynn and John Anderson, a railroad fireman from Glenwood, standing outside the rest home in Lynwood (Grand Junction).
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Inscription reads: "DeWitt, ?, Jim Summer, Al, Albert, 'Snooks,' ?"
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Howard Barsley standing in the railyard at Gypsum.
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Joe Sullivan, pipe in hand, standing on the tracks at Kent.
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Fletcher [J. Homan] and Kate Flynn at Wolcott, standing on risers near the tracks.
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The Kent section house which was the home of the Flynn family until Oct. 15, 1923, at which time Catherine and Nora Flynn moved to Glenwood Springs.