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1. Train wreck in Eagle Canyon

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Train wreck in Eagle Canyon near Gilman on April 13, 1899. Men examining the wreckage with the Denver & Rio Grande engine in the water.

2. Wreck at Belden

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D.&R.G. engine wrecked at Belden. Caption: "Malley" Crane being used to right the engine; Eagle River in the foreground.

New Jersey Zinc Co. mill and mining facility in Belden (Eagle River Canyon), August 1998. Both the mine and the railroad were out of operation by then. The surface tram is visible going up the incline of the cliff at right midground.

4. Wreck at Belden

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D.&R.G. engine wrecked at Belden. Caption: "Malley" Crane being used to right the engine.

5. Tram house and surface tram, Belden

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Looking across the railroad tracks at Belden, the tram house is white, midground; the surface tram cable is running up the cliff on the right. Cribbing visible at center.

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Railroad tracks running through Belden in the Eagle River Canyon. The New Jersey Zinc Co. used the railroad to ship ore from the Gilman mines located above Belden. "After the trains quit running, Buster and I walked the railroad tracks." -- Angela Beck Oct. 11, 2010; photo taken August 1998.

7. Train Wreck in Eagle Canyon

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Train wreck in the Eagle Canyon near Gilman on April 13, 1899. Publication: Eagle County Blade (Red Cliff, Eagle County); Date:1899 Apr 13; Section:None; Page Number: 4 "A Bad Wreck" The Locomotive and Three Freight Cars Plunge Into the River. About 1 o'clock Monday night, an east bound freight train was wrecked in Eagle Canon near Rock Creek. The engine struck a large rock that had fallen from the perpendicular cliffs...