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Streamliners

View of lumber and debris near the intersection of B Street and Victoria Avenue in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Shows water in the entrance to the stone Union Depot building and submerged telephone poles and trees.

Debris from the Arkansas River flood at 2nd (Second) Street and Grand Avenue in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Shows mud, timber, portions of ceiling molding, and a door near the wrecked, frame "Mammoth Corral" building. The three story brick "Colorado Bedding Co." building shows paint chipped off at the high water mark above first story windows.

Interior view of White and Davis clothing store at 301 N. Main Street after the Arkansas River flood in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Shows wrecked furniture, crates, mud and debris in the aisle. Signs for "Boys Dept." and "Collars" are posted on pipe columns with Corinthian capitals. The store has a pressed metal ceiling and overhead lamps with glass globes.

Wow Photo Wednesday ~ A Flood of Biblical Proportions

A Native American man stands next to a tuff cliffside with eroded holes enlarged by ancestral Pueblo Indians for dwellings and ceremonial spaces, Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico; became Bandelier National Monument in 1916.

Windows and bird nest holes show in the soft volcanic rock of a verticle tuff cliffside with natural caves, Frijoles Canyon, Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico.

View along a soft volcanic tuff cliffside with natural caves, enlarged to create living and ceremonial spaces by ancestral Pueblo Indians, Frijoles Canyon, Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico.

Acclaimed Western Photographers ~ George Beam

View of a Denver and Rio Grande Railroad train at Maysville (Chaffee County), Colorado. Shows locomotive number 52 and box cars on the bridge at the North Fork of the South Arkansas River. Men in work clothes stand on and near the train, snow covered mountains are in the distance.

View of Lake Pend Oreille in Idaho shows a Northern Pacific train near the shore with a boat and boathouse nearby. Mountains are in the distance.

View of Argentine Central Railway narrow gauge track with push car near timberline, Argentine Pass, Clear Creek County, Colorado. Waldorf Mine distant center; Rocky Mountains with snowfields; man on push car with derby hat.

Railroads in the West

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