View of corrugated metal buildings of the American Fluorspar mine near Salida in Chaffee County, Colorado. Shows metal barrels, timber cribbing, a driveway, cars and dirt roads beside the fluorspar processing facility.
Fluorspar industry--Colorado--Salida--1940-1950.; American Fluorspar Mine Company Mine (Chaffee County, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Chaffee County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Metal buildings--Colorado--Salida--1940-1950.; Mills--Colorado--Salida--1940-1950.;...
View of a dilapidated log structure at the Alie Bell mine near Hancock (Chaffee County), Colorado. Shows a metal chimney pipe, square, hand hewn wooden walls and a shed with a tin roof.
Alie Bell Mine (Chaffee County, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Chaffee County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Abandoned mines--Colorado--Chaffee County--1940-1950.; Chimneys--Colorado--Chaffee County--1940-1950.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Chaffee County--1940-1950.;...
Dilapidated buildings from the Alie Bell mine are on either side of a dirt road near Hancock (Chaffee County), Colorado. The wooden ore storage building has clerestory windows, tin roofs and ore chutes. Across the road is a collapsed log building...
Alie Bell Mine (Chaffee County, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Chaffee County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Abandoned mines--Colorado--Chaffee County--1940-1950.; Chimneys--Colorado--Chaffee County--1940-1950.; Dirt roads--Colorado--Chaffee County--1940-1950.; Mine...
View of the Colorado Fuel & Iron mine at Monarch Pass in Chaffee County, Colorado; shows shaft house, sheds, tailings, and Denver and Rio Grande railroad tracks with cars full of ore.
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company--Buildings--1940-1950.; Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company--1940-1950.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Chaffee County--1940-1950.; Tailings embankments--Colorado--Chaffee County--1940-1950.; Chaffee County...
Overlook view of the Colorado Fuel & Iron mine at Monarch Pass in Chaffee County, Colorado shows: shaft house, tailings, and railroad tracks with cars full of ore.
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Chaffee County--1940-1950.; Tailings embankments--Colorado--Chaffee County--1940-1950.; Chaffee County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Colorado Fuel & Iron Mine (Chaffee County, Colo.)--1940-1950.;...
Dilapidated buildings from the Flora Bell mine stand atop a pile of mine tailings near Hancock (Chaffee County), Colorado. A trestle spans the dirt road.
Dilapidated buildings from the Flora Bell mine stand atop a pile of mine tailings near Hancock (Chaffee County), Colorado. A trestle spans the dirt road.
Aerial view of Denver and Rio Grande Western locomotive 496 (2-8-2) on the wye at Monarch (Chaffee County), Colorado. Shows dirt roads and a car.
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1940-1950.; Chaffee County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Railroad locomotives--Colorado--Chaffee County--1940-1950.; Railroad tracks--Colorado--Chaffee County--1940-1950.
View of what is identified as a U.S. Fluorspar site, probably in Chaffee County, Colorado. Shows mine buildings with tar paper siding on a hillside, houses in the Arkansas River valley and mountains in the Sawatch Range.
Fluorspar industry--Colorado--Chaffee County--1940-1950.; Chaffee County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Chaffee County--1940-1950.
View of a Denver and Rio Grande Western freight train with locomotives 499, with pilot plow, and locomotive 496 between Poncha Springs and Mears Junction, (Chaffee County), Colorado; snow covers the hillsides. The locomotives vent steam and smoke.
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1940-1950.; Chaffee County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Railroad snowplow locomotives--Colorado--Chaffee County--1940-1950.; Railroads--Colorado--Chaffee County--1940-1950.
View of two Denver and Rio Grande Western locomotives in deep snow on the Poncha Pass road in Chaffee County, Colorado. Locomotive 496 vents steam.
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1940-1950.; Chaffee County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Blizzards--Colorado--Chaffee County--1940-1950.; Railroad locomotives--Colorado--Chaffee County--1940-1950.
View of a Denver and Rio Grande Western freight train with locomotives 499, with a pilot plow, and locomotive 496 between Poncha Springs and Mears Junction, (Chaffee County), Colorado. Highway 285 is to the side.
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1940-1950.; Chaffee County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Railroad snowplow locomotives--Colorado--Chaffee County--1940-1950.; Railroads--Colorado--Chaffee County--1940-1950.; Roads--Colorado--Chaffee...
Denver and Rio Grande Western locomotive 496 vents steam on the Poncha Pass road in Chaffee County, Colorado; snow flanks the train and covers distant mountains.
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1940-1950.; Chaffee County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Railroad snowplow locomotives--Colorado--Chaffee County--1940-1950.; Railroads--Colorado--Chaffee County--1940-1950.
Rocky Mountain Railroad Club members and railroad crewmen pose by Denver and Rio Grande Western locomotive 499 (2-8-2) near Poncha Pass (Chaffee County), Colorado. The locomotive has a push snowplow.
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1940-1950.; Rocky Mountain Railroad Club--People--1940-1950.; Chaffee County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Railroad employees--Colorado--Chaffee--1940-1950.; Railroad...
View of a Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad train with caboose #0574, a baggage car, and narrow gauge passenger cars en route from Salida to Alamosa, near Poncha Junction in Chaffee County, Colorado. Shows a siding, a pile of railroad ties...
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1940-1950.; Chaffee County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; San Luis Valley (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Sangre de Cristo Range (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Railroad cabooses--Colorado--Saguache County--1940-1950.;...
View of an abandoned grade (Denver, South Park & Pacific Railroad, later the Colorado and Southern Railway) near Hancock (Chaffee County), Colorado. Mountains are in the distance.
Colorado and Southern Railway--Facilities--1950-1960.; Denver, South Park, and Pacific Railroad Company--Facilities--1950-1960.; Chaffee County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Railroad tracks--Colorado--Chaffee County--1950-1960.
Smitty poses near abandoned stamp mill machinery that includes stamps and a flywheel near Trout Creek Pass, Chaffee County, Colorado. The abandoned Colorado and Southern (C&S) grade, Mount Princeton, and Mount Harvard are in the distance.
A residential cabin, made of vertical board siding and sheet metal roofing, stands in a state of disrepair near the Lone Wolf mine in Chaffee County, Colorado. A sign with, "Lone Wolf," painted on it is nailed to the side of the cabin.
Chaffee County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Cabins--Colorado--Chaffee County--1940-1950.