TRAIN WRECK NEAR YALE, COLORADO, 1908.

Oversized albumen photograph: Engine 22 in Newcastle after train wreck, 1908, at Trout Creek trestle, near Yale, Colorado.
APRIL 1, 1908: COLORADO MIDLAND Passenger Train 4 was pulling up Trout Creek Pass near Yale, Colorado with Engine 17 leading Engine 22. As the two locomotives drew around a curve both engineers saw the Trout Creek trestle on fire. Even though emergency brakes were applied both engines plunged into the dry creek. Reference: COLORADO MIDLAND by Morris Cafky. This albumen photograph is of Engine 22 after it was lifted and hauled out of Trout Creek. Later, both engines were repaired and placed back in service. Original albumen photograph dimensions: 7-1/2 inches by 4-3/4 inches. Original mount dimensions: 10 inches by 8 inches. Condition: near fine. Excellent tones and contrasts; fine detail. |
BUILDING THE COLORADO MIDLAND RAILWAY
Boudoir-card-sized images by photographer, C. W. Erdlen, with a studio in Buena Vista, Chaffee County, Colorado. Photographs taken in February and March 1887.

Boudoir-card: “#93. Anderson’s Cut,” Erdlen photo. “Section ‘A’, Midland.”

Boudoir card photograph: “102. Flick & Ford’s Camp.” Colorado Views along the Colorado Midland Railroad. “Section 109, Midland,” by C. W. Erdlen, Photographer, Buena Vista, Colorado.

Boudoir-card: “99. Water Carrier, Anderson’s Camp,” Erdlen photograph. “Section 112, Midland.”

Boudoir-card: Erdlen photograph, “#112. Kyner, Higbee & Bernards Camp.”

Boudoir-card: “#105. Arbuckles 60 Ft. Cut,” Erdlen photo. “Section 108, Midland.”

Boudoir-card: “#104. Arbuckles Cut,” Erdlen photograph. “Section 108, Midland R.R.”

Boudoir-card: “#106. Arbuckles 60 Ft. Cut,” Erdlen photo. “Section 108, Midland.”

Boudoir-card: “#82. Below Granite,” Erdlen photo.

Boudoir-card: “#96. Anderson’s Cut,” Erdlen photo. “Section A.”

Boudoir-card: “#1. Langdahl’s Cut,” Erdlen photo. Colorado Midland Railway.

Boudoir-card: “#79. Malone & Nicholls Camp, C.M.R.R.,” Erdlen photo.

Boudoir-card: “#100. Anderson’s Camp,” Erdlen photo. “Sec. 112 + A – Colo Midland R.R.”

Boudoir-card: “#95. Anderson’s Camp,” Erdlen photo. “Sec. 112 + A.”

Boudoir-card: “#94. Anderson’s Fill,” Erdlen photo. “Sec. 112, Midland.”

Boudoir-card: #84. Winchester’s Camp, C.M.R.R.,” Erdlen photo. “Colo. Midland Sec. C. Feb. /87.”

Boudoir-card: “#80. Flick & Ford’s Camp, C.M.R.R.,” Erdlen photo. “Colo. Midland Sec 109 – Feby 87.”

Boudoir-card: “#85. W. C. Bradbury & Co.’s Headquarters, Granite (Colo.),” Erdlen photo. “Colorado Midland, Feby. 1887.”

Boudoir-card: “#73. Arbuckles Camp, C.M.R.R.,” Erdlen photograph. “Colo. Midland, Sec. 108, Feby. 1887.”

Boudoir-card: “#77. C. F. Bradbury’s Office, Riverside,” Erdlen photo. 1887

Boudoir card: “View along the Colorado Midland Rail Road. The Road was just graded but the track was not laid when this was taken. No. 1 is the Rocky Mountains, Elevation 14,150 feet.” No photographer indicated. Circa 1887.