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Fire destroyed 17 locomotives in the roundhouse and shops December 11, 1892, including Nos. 404 and 285 which were in for major repairs and couldn’t be moved. The blaze gutted 14 of 17 roundhouse stalls before city and D&RG firemen and about 100 volunteers could bring it to a halt. Low water pressure, rotten hoses, and freezing weather made fire fighting a nightmare, but there were no major injuries. Volunteers managed to save 20 locomotives and...
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Marvin Ice Houses and Pond, ca. 1908 – 1910. Pearl Lunnon Collection.
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Dr. Cochem’s house, corner of F and 4th streets. Nellie Ellis Collection.
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Foundations for the roundhouse, Salida, Colorado, dated August 1, 1923. The 20-stall standard-gauge roundhouse was constructed in 1900, east of the narrow-gauge roundhouse. By the date of this photograph, August 1, 1923, a new eight-stall roundhouse addition was being constructed as a separate building; however it shared the 100-foot turntable with the original standard-gauge roundhouse. The 100-foot turntable replaced the original 80-foot turntable...
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The Girls Drum Corps, a division of the Grand Army of the Republic, Post #37, at Alpine Park, 1911. Bob Rush Collection.
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Photograph of unidentified family: mother and father with two young children. Janice Pennington Collection.
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Colorado & Southern engine No. 30. Leonard Perschbacher Collection.
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Man standing at a Garland Range. Josephine Soukup Collection.
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Photograph of the Salida High School Football Champions for 1934. Salida High School Collection.
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Motoring along the Arkansas River. Josephine Soukup Collection.
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Unidentified workers who built the 365-foot smokestack grin happily as they pose with their boss, assistant superintendent Arthur Thompson, atop the stack November 14, 1917, during a simple topping out ceremony held that day. Thompson placed a silver dollar in the wet mortar of the last few bricks. Town clerk Bertie Roney, the first woman to the top of the stack, was hoisted in the materials bucket. Because she isn’t in any of the photos taken that...
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The Knights of Pythias hosted a Grand Lodge Session in early September 1890. Here is a photo of the Knights of Pythias Band on E. 1st and E Streets – taken September 3, 1890: • Comstock – Solo B flat • Logan – first B flat • Kirkbride – first B flat • Bogue – first tenor • Johnston – 2nd tenor • Gilliam – 2nd alto • Porchard – 1st alto • Smith – baritone • Motz – tuba •...
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A. B. Stein went to work at the Salida smelter as a boiler maker’s helper. Over his left shoulder can be seen two chimneys of the blast furnaces. The camera view was looking to the west. R.M. Stein Collection.
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Frantzhurst Rainbow Trout delivery truck. Bob Rush Collection.
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Engines 213, 576, & 218 in the Denver & Rio Grande Railyard. Virgil Jackson Collection.
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Union Pacific Railway Engine No. 1473. Photo taken by John Kratky. Josephine Soukup Collection.
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Using space left vacant by the 1888 fire, Charles Webster Crews and R. H. Beggs constructed this building in 1900 as a branch of their Pueblo store. The company, founded in 1882 in Leadville, went out of business in 2000 after closure of the Salida store – the last of three. John Ophus Collection.
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The Rio Grande Hospital opened in November 1885, described as “one of the finest buildings of similar size in the West and...the especial pride of the town.” Railroad workers throughout the line paid fifty cents each month to a fund to cover the operation of the hospital. The substantial two- and-a-half-story brick building resembled a fine residence and featured a wrap-around verandah surmounted by a balcony. The landscape...
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West Side Liquor Store was owned and operated by Carl Spino and located at the end of W. 2nd St.
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Band marching north on E Street, passing Alpine Park. Bob Rush Collection.