View of the track and two cars on the Pikes Peak Cog Railway near the summit of Pikes Peak. The original rails were laid in 1889 and have since been upgraded. New switches were added in the 1980s to adjust for larger Swiss made rail cars. The...
Interior view of the garage of the Lawrence Cowle Phipps home in the Belcaro Neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. A telephone sits on a shelf near fuse boxes, a thermostat, and light switches. Shows hoses, pipes, and a weight system for the garage...
View of a control room with levers, switches, and dials on the South Platte Dredging Company hydraulic placer gold mining dredge probably near Fairplay (Park County), Colorado.
South Platte Dredging Co.--Equipment & supplies--1930-1950.; Control rooms--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.; Fairplay (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Dredges--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.; Hydraulic mining--Colorado--Fairplay--1930-1950.;...
Interior view of a Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company office in Colorado Springs (El Paso County), Colorado; shows telephones, microphones, switches, dials, and a road map of Colorado.
Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company--Equipment & supplies--1910-1920.; Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Interiors--Colorado Springs--Denver--1910-1920.; Offices--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1910-1920.; Telephone...
Shows workmen at the Alameda Avenue underpass construction site in Denver, Colorado. A McCabe and Steen steam shovel is nearby. A sign on a building reads: "The Call Automatic Switch Company [M]anufrs Of Hand Tower & Automatic Ry. Switches".
An interior view of the Denver Tramway Company power plant at 14th (fourteenth) and Platte in Denver, Colorado. A line of large turbines fill the room and one wall is lined with electric switches.
Denver Tramway Company (Denver, Colo.)--Facilities--1890-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Engines--Colorado--Denver--1890-1910.; Interiors--Colorado--Denver--1890-1910.; Power plants--Colorado--Denver--1890-1910.
Interior view of a telegraph office in Denver, Colorado; shows men at desks with typewriters, telegraphic equipment, and telephones. Switches are on the wall by a sign: "Postal Telegraph Messengers Furnished."
Workmen sit on the edge of wood forms, at the Alameda Avenue underpass construction site, in Denver, Colorado. A nearby sign on a building reads: "The Call Automatic Swit[ch Co.] Manufrs. Of Hand Tower & Automatic Ry. Switches".
Concrete construction--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Underpasses--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Construction workers--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.
A Native American guides pauses on the Frijoles Canyon trail below a elderly man with a with beard and walking stick and a woman carrying a toolbox; the steep trail switches back and forth along the volcanic tuff. Bandelier National Monument, New...
Bandelier National Monument (N.M.)--1910-1930.; Aged persons--New Mexico--1910-1930.; Guides & scouts--New Mexico--1910-1930.; Indians of North America--New Mexico--1910-1930.; Women--New Mexico--1910-1930.
A Native American guide pauses on the Frijoles Canyon trail with an elderly man with a white beard and walking stick and a woman carrying a toolbox, Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico. The steep trail switches back and forth along the volcanic...
Bandelier National Monument (N.M.)--1910-1930.; Aged persons--New Mexico--1910-1930.; Guides & scouts--New Mexico--1910-1930.; Indians of North America--New Mexico--1910-1930.; Women--New Mexico--1910-1930.
View of Waldorf Mine and mill, Waldorf, Clear Creek County, Colorado; shows Argentine Central Railway narrow gauge tracks, switches, water tower and flatbed cars.
Argentine Central Railway Company--1900-1910.; Waldorf (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Railroads--Colorado--Waldorf--1900-1910.
View of Waldorf Mine buildings, Waldorf, Clear Creek County, Colorado, (11,666 feet); shows Argentine Central Railway narrow gauge tracks, sidings, switches, water tower, and gondola cars. Ore bucket line overhead runs from Santiago to Waldorf.
Argentine Central Railway Company--1900-1920.; Waldorf (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Railroads--Colorado--Waldorf--1900-1920.
View of office interior with large group of Rocky Mountain News staff, Denver, Colorado. Shows: telephones, desk, papers, clock, map, sign on wall reads: "Notice You Are Forbidden To Touch Machines Or Tamper With Switches. G. O'Halloran T. D. R."
A locomotive blowing black smoke approaches in the snow covered Colorado & Southern railyard, in Trinidad, Colorado. Scene includes two cabooses and part of a freight car. A man stands next to two harp switches, and another man stands in the...
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad tracks, Eagle County, Colorado, by signal switches.
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1930-1940.; Eagle County (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Railroad signals--Colorado--Eagle County--1930-1940.; Railroad tracks--Colorado--Eagle County--1930-1940.
Soldier Summit, Utah, is a Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad terminal/switch yard covered in snow. Locomotives, freight and passenger cars, and cabooses are on the tracks, and men work picking ice from the switches. Passengers emerge at the...
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1920-1930.; Soldier Summit (Utah)--1920-1930.; Passengers--Utah--Soldier Summit--1920-1930.; Railroad employees--Utah--Soldier Summit--1920-1930.; Railroad shops & yards--Utah--Soldier...
Soldier Summit, Utah, is a Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad terminal/switch yard covered in snow. Locomotives, freight and passenger cars, and cabooses are on the tracks, and men work picking ice from the switches. Passengers emerge at the...
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1920-1930.; Soldier Summit (Utah)--1920-1930.; Railroad freight cars--Utah--Soldier Summit--1920-1930.; Railroad shops & yards--Utah--Soldier Summit--1920-1930.; Railroad stations--Utah--Soldier...
Interior view of the Daniels and Fisher Stores power generating facility in Denver, Colorado; shows "Ideal" turbines, flywheels, switches, and gauges.
Daniels and Fisher Stores Company--Facilities--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Electric generators--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Interiors--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.
Interior view of the Daniels and Fisher Stores power generating facility in Denver, Colorado; shows turbines, flywheels, switches, gauges, and embossed letters: "Denver Engineering Works."
Daniels and Fisher Stores Company--Facilities--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Electric generators--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Interiors--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.
Interior view at the Denver Municipal Auditorium in Denver, Colorado; shows workings of the organ console consisting of wiring, switches, levers, and bellows.
City Auditorium (Denver, Colo.)--1910-1920.; Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Interiors--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Organs--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.
View of Forbes (Las Animas County) Colorado, possibly during the UMF labor strike against CF&I; shows mining ore car tracks and switches, processing sheds, and tracklaying machinery.
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company--Strikes--1910-1920.; United Mine Workers of America--Strikes--1910-1920.; Coal Strike, Colo. 1913-1914.; Forbes (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Mine railroads--Colorado--Forbes--1910-1920.; Miners'...
Levers, switches, and a pulley with a weight and a square can hang outside the gas chamber at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado. Wood molding frames a slotted window in the wall, and doors flank the apparatus.
Gas chambers--Colorado--Canon City--1930-1940.; Canon City (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Prisons--Colorado--Canon City--1960-1970.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
A group of men in suits pose in a operations room at the Denver Police Department in Denver, Colorado. An operator sits behind a desk where roles of ticker tape and telegraph machines are arranged. Electrical switches, dials, and light bulbs are...
View of harp switches at the Narrow Gauge Museum in Alamosa (Alamosa County), Colorado.
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--Equipment & supplies--1950-1960.; Narrow Gauge Museum (Alamosa, Colo.)--1950-1960.; Alamosa (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Equipment--Colorado--Alamosa--1950-1960.; Galleries &...
A Denver and Rio Grande Western train with a locomotive 482 (with a pilot plow) vents smoke in the yard at Alamosa, (Alamosa County), Colorado. Conductor Young talks to the engineer; a narrow gauge engine switches standard gauge cars.
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1950-1960.; Alamosa (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Narrow gauge railroads--Colorado--Alamosa--1950-1960.; Railroad employees--Colorado--Alamosa.; Railroad shops & yards--Colorado--Alamosa--1950-1960.; Railroad...
A horse-drawn wagon is on a road near the confluence of two mountain creeks in a narrow canyon in Boulder County, Colorado. Men in the wagon wear hats. Shows a wooden trunk and horse switches in the wagon. Logs, rocks and white water are in the...
Boulder County (Colo.)--1860-1880.; Middle Boulder Creek (Colo.)--1860-1880.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Boulder County--1860-1880.; Streams--Colorado--Boulder County--1860-1880.
View of a horse race in Yosemite Valley (later Yosemite National Park), California. Shows bareback riders with whips or switches, bridled horses and men spectators near the racers. Covered wagons are in the distance.
Yosemite National Park (Calif.)--1870-1880.; Horse racing--California--Yosemite National Park--1870-1880.; Spectators--California--Yosemite National Park--1870-1880.
Wayne K. Patterson, Warden at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado between 1965 and 1972, is at his desk. On it are a tape dispenser, stapler, ashtray, paper clip caddy, eyeglasses, papers, in/out box, and marble based fountain pen...
Prison wardens--Colorado--Canon City--1960-1980.; Canon City (Colo.)--1960-1980.; Patterson, Wayne K.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
View of a Coudersport and Port Allegany Railroad snow plow on a siding near railroad tracks in Coudersport (Potter County), Pennsylvania. The plow consists of a wooden railroad car with a cupola and porthole windows and a metal wedge plow mounted...
Coudersport and Port Allegany Railroad--1930-1940.; Coudersport (Pa.)--1930-1940.; Railroad cars--Pennsyvania--Coudersport--1930-1940.; Snowplows--Pennsyvania--Coudersport--1930-1940.
Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Company locomotive 1202 switches narrow gauge boxcars in the yard at Montrose (Montrose County), Colorado. Lettering on the box cars reads: "D&RGW 3133" and "Rio Grande."
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1950-1960.; Montrose (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Railroad freight cars--Colorado--Montrose--1950-1960.; Railroad locomotives--Colorado--Montrose--1950-1960.; Railroad shops &...
Smoke rises from San Luis Valley Southern Railway locomotive #105, with a caboose, in Blanca (Costilla County), Colorado. Shows frame railroad buildings, switches, patches of snow beside the tracks, and Blanca Peak and the Sangre de Cristo...
Southern San Luis Valley Railroad--1940-1950.; Blanca (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Blanca Peak (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Sangre de Cristo Mountains (Colo. and N.M.)--1940-1950.; Railroad locomotives--Colorado--Blanca--1940-1950.;...
Arrow, Colorado (formerly Arrowhead), and Denver, Northwestern and Pacific Railway (later Denver and Salt Lake) passenger train; shows standard gauge tracks and switches, town behind depot, women standing on track, a dining room a restaurant,...
View of Waldorf Mine and mill and Waldorf, Clear Creek County, Colorado (11,666 feet elevation). Waldorf mill was one of the major shippers on the narrow gauge line. Argentine Central Railway's narrow gauge tracks, sidings, switches, and water...
Tailings (Metallurgy)--1900-1920.; Clear Creek County (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Waldorf Mine (Colo.)--1900-1920.; Mining--Colorado--Clear Creek County--1900-1920.; Narrow-gage railroads--Colorado--Clear Creek County--1900- 1920.; Railroad...
Interior view of the Clear Creek and Gilpin Tunnel Mine (Corporation of American Mines) in Dumont (Clear Creek County), Colorado. Miners pose near ore cars and track switches; some hold carbide lamps. A man in coveralls stands with his hand on a...
Corporation of American Mines--Buildings--1920-1930.; Clear Creek and Gilpin Tunnel Mine (Clear Creek County, Colo.)--1920-1930.; Dumont (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Interiors--Colorado--Dumont--1920-1930.; Mine railroad cars--Colorado--Dumont--1920-1930.;...
View of a three-way switch at "Mears Junction" in the yard at the Narrow Gauge Museum in Alamosa (Alamosa County), Colorado. Shows a freight car and motorized section car on a spur. A caboose on blocks beside the tracks has a sign that reads:...
A flatbed truck delivers Rio Grande Southern Railroad 2-8-0 locomotive #42 to the Narrow Gauge Museum in Alamosa (Alamosa County), Colorado. Shows "M.B. & W.R.R." (Mt. Blanca and Western Railroad) 2-8-0 locomotive #346 with a tender and caboose, a...
Mount Blanca and Western Railroad--1950-1960.; Narrow Gauge Museum (Alamosa, Colo.)--1950-1960.; Rio Grande Southern Railroad--Equipment & supplies--1950-1960.; Alamosa (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Galleries & museums--Colorado--Alamosa--1950-1960.; Narrow...
Smoke rises from Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad narrow gauge locomotive (2-8-2) #454, as it switches standard gauge freight cars in Montrose (Montrose County), Colorado. Shows railroad workers, tanks beside tracks in the rail yard and a...
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1950-1960.; Montrose (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Narrow gauge railroads--Colorado--Montrose--1950-1960.; Railroad freight cars--Colorado--Montrose--1950-1960.; Railroad...
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad locomotive #488 (2-8-2) pushes a standard gauge coal car up a coal dock (coaling trestle) in Alamosa (Alamosa County), Colorado. Standard gauge locomotive #1161 (2-8-0) is in the distance. Shows a flanger...
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1950-1960.; Alamosa (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Railroad locomotives--Colorado--Alamosa County--1950-1960.; Railroad shops and yards--Colorado--Alamosa County--1950-1960.; Railroads--Colorado--Alamosa...
View of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company's Monarch Lime Quarry in Monarch (Chaffee County), Colorado. Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad locomotive #496 (2-8-2) switches tracks at the limestone quarry. Shows gondola or hopper cars filled with...
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company--1940-1950.; Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1940-1950.; Monarch (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Monarch Lime Quarry (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Sangre de Cristo Mountains (Colo. and N.M.)--1940-1950.; Limestone...
View of the rail yard in Alamosa (Alamosa County), Colorado. Shows flat bed cars loaded with pipes, and buildings, switches, a railroad crossing, and snow on the ground. Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad narrow gauge locomotives 481 and 492...
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1950-1960.; Alamosa (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Narrow gauge railroads--Colorado--Alamosa--1950-1960.; Railroad shops & yards--Colorado--Alamosa--1950-1960.; Snow--Colorado--Alamosa--1950-1960.
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad narrow gauge locomotive 480 (2-8-2) is near a frame building in Sargents (Saguache County), Colorado. Railroad workers are on the side of the tracks. Shows railroad switches and hills.
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1950-1960.; Sargents (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Narrow gauge railroads--Colorado--Sargents--1950-1960.; Railroad employees--Colorado--Sargents--1950-1960.; Railroad...
View of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad "Silver Vista" narrow gauge observation car in Silverton (San Juan County), Colorado. Locomotive 478 (2-8-2) switches on tracks nearby. Steep mountain slopes are next to the tracks.
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1950-1960.; Silverton (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Narrow gauge railroads--Colorado--Silverton--1950-1960.; Railroad locomotives--Colorado--Silverton--1950-1960.; Railroad observation...
Smoke rises from Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad narrow gauge locomotive 454 (2-8-2) as it switches a standard gauge box car in Montrose (Montrose County), Colorado. Shows automobiles parked nearby, and storage tanks beside a building near...
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1950-1960.; Montrose (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Narrow gauge railroads--Colorado--Montrose--1950-1960.; Railroad freight cars--Colorado--Montrose--1950-1960.; Railroad...