Re: Engraving, "The Great Loop on the Denver & Rio Grande": Rockslide on track?
| November 20, 2019 05:17AM |
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Chris Walker Wrote:
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> Two more actual pictures at the same basic
> location Phillip
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> [digital.denverlibrary.org]
> n/p15330coll21/id/9872
The caption for second photo that Chris linked does not say why the train [presumably] stopped for the photo, looking at the right edge suggests that there may have been a rockslide across the tracks.
Note the man standing on the locomotive pilot apparently reviewing the situation.
A repeat of the relevant 'active link' from Chris's post]: [digital.denverlibrary.org]
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> Two more actual pictures at the same basic
> location Phillip
>
> [digital.denverlibrary.org]
> n/p15330coll21/id/9872
The caption for second photo that Chris linked does not say why the train [presumably] stopped for the photo, looking at the right edge suggests that there may have been a rockslide across the tracks.
Note the man standing on the locomotive pilot apparently reviewing the situation.
A repeat of the relevant 'active link' from Chris's post]: [digital.denverlibrary.org]
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