Galleries by James Rogers

The Pueblo Flood of 1921

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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.
Interior of White & Davis store, cor. 3rd and Main
1921 June
People walk on 2nd (Second) Street in front of damaged commercial buildings and piles of debris from the Arkansas River flood in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Men pose on wreckage from a collapsed roof beside a damaged brick building with a decorative parapet. Shows cars, water and mud in the street.
Looking west along 2nd St. from point near Main Street
1921 June
View of Union Depot in the aftermath of the 1921 flood in Pueblo, Colorado, shows debris and destruction. Piles of timber and beams are stacked against overturned railroad passenger cars. Mud and debris from the receded flood waters extends to the railroad station platform of Union Depot. Empty and loaded railroad baggage carts are next to a group of men.
Pueblo flood
[1921]
View of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Walker freight yards after the Arkansas River flood in Pueblo, Colorado. Shows twisted and damaged railroad tracks and overturned railroad freight cars. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe bridge, the collapsed D. &.R.G.W. bridge, and the Nuckolls Packing plant are in the distance.
D. & R.G. freight yards looking east from viaduct Santa Fe bridge and Nuckoll's Packing Plant in the background.
[1921 June]
View of flood damaged storefronts on Union Avenue after the Arkansas River flood in Pueblo, Colorado. Men work with shovels to remove deep mud that washed against the buildings. Shows a utility pole and a lamp post in the street. Hats, clothing and furniture are piled up outside the buildings. Signs on the buildings read: "The Wonder Mens Store," "United Shoes," "Stark Clot[hing Co.]," and "409 M. Braun Dry Goods, Juvenile Clothing."
1921, 409 N. Union Ave. flood
[1921 June 3]
Aerial view of Fountain Creek, a damaged 4th (Fourth) Street bridge, a flooded and destroyed Colorado and Southern Railway bridge in the creek bed, and Denver and Rio Grande Western tracks beside the creek in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado.
Airplane View, Pueblo in vicinity of east 4th St., D. & R.G. tracks across Fountain Creek
1921 June
Panoramic view of flood damage from the Arkansas River flood in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Shows washed out Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad tracks and the rail yard near the Union Depot, mud and debris on the ground and smokestacks in the distance. Men stand near a car on the West 4th (Fourth) Street bridge.
Dreadful flood of Pueblo, Colo., looking the east [sic] from W. 4th St's. bridge
1921 June 3
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.
Great flood, Pueblo, Colo., June 3rd '21, Union Station
1921 June 3
View of flood waters and railroad tracks in Pueblo, Colorado. A woman walks on a railroad embankment; houses, garages, out buildings and tracks are washed up against the embankment. Shows damaged houses and buildings, factories, and a bridge in the flood water and in the distance across the Arkansas River. The Nuckolls Packing Plant is in the distance.
Scene after Pueblo Flood, San Isabel
1921
View of an over-turned railroad passenger car, box car and debris after a flood in Pueblo, Colorado. A man picks through the rubble. An intact Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe bridge, a damaged Denver & Rio Grande Western Bridge, the Arkansas River, and the American Smelting and Refining Company smelter are in the distance.
Pueblo flood
1921
People pose on a freight car and on a pile of debris beside flood water from the Arkansas River on 1st (First) Street in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Shows a pile of lumber, a wagon wheel, and flood water on First Street. Brick buildings read: "Haver's Land Office," "T.G. McCarthy and Co. Undertakers," and "Auto Parts & Rubber House, United States Tires, Sales & Service Depot."
Flood scene, First Street, looking west, Pueblo
1921 June 6
Men remove mud, the result of a flood, from railroad tracks at the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad roundhouse in Pueblo, Colorado. Shows a locomotive, an overturned railroad car, freight cars, stock cars, passenger cars, baggage carts, and debris. Dead cows are in the stock car doorways and on the ground. Signs on the stock cars read: "Missouri Pacific," "12396," and "51492." Shows footprints in the mud.
Roundhouse, Pueblo flood
1921
People walk through the debris outside stores destroyed by the Arkansas River flood, on Union Street in Pueblo, Colorado. Signs on commercial buildings read: "Weston's Cafe," "Cut Price Market," "Clothing" and "T. Flynn, Saddles and Harn[esses.]"
Wrecked stores on Union Ave. looking east from Telephone Bldg. note searchers among the ruins.
[1921]
View of an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad bridge and a wrecked Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad bridge with piles of wreckage from the Arkansas River flood in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Men stand and pose on piles of debris and rubble from flooded buildings and rail yards.
River bridges at Pueblo from north end
1921 June
Aerial view of the flooded Arkansas River in Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Shows freight cars at the washed out Missouri Pacific Railway Company yard, railroad bridges over the river and the Nuckolls Packing Company building beside standing water.
Airplane view, Arkansas River near Nuckolls Packing Plant, D.& R.G. and A.T.& S.F. bridges in foreground
1921 June
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.
Debris at 2nd and Grand Ave., showing high water line
1921 June

Streamliners

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CB&Q Burlington Zephyr No. 9900, at the railyard in Denver, Colorado; high speed silver streamliner of the Burlington Route; also known as Pioneer Zephyr; lettering on buildings read "Pride of the Rockies Flour Mill"," Pikes Peak Mill", "National Fuel Co.", Twentieth Street Viaduct iron bridge, telephone and power lines; shows men in suits and hats and several sets of tracks.
Locomotive Chi. Burlington & Quincy, Burlington Zephyr
[1940-1949?]
A Mississippi & Alabama railroad auto railer truck is parked on a siding near a road grade crossing in Vinegar Bend (Washington County), Alabama. The truck has a cowcatcher on the front. Lettering reads: "M&A 301." Shows the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio streamliner the "Rebel" in the distance with a diesel electric locomotive.
Mississippi & Alabama R.R. auto railer #301 Vinegar Bend, Ala. Gulf Mobile and Ohio DL109 ALCO diesel #271 with "The Rebel" in background.
1942 February 5
View of the Pioneer Zephyr 9900 running as Colorado and Southern Railway train 32 stopped at the railroad station in Longmont (Boulder County), Colorado. The streamlined art-deco style diesel locomotive and cars are constructed of stainless steel. The consist has a post office car, baggage car and passenger cars. Lettering on the train reads: "Burlington Route."
Pioneer Zephyr at Longmont, 2:25 P.M.
1950 February 19
Union Pacific display train "City of Salina" Denver
1937
Train ##105, The Streamliner, 2 cars. Photographed: leaving Kansas City, Mo., January 18, 1936.
UP train, engine number M-10000, engine type PULLMAN- STANDARD/WINTON DISTILLATE-ELECTRIC
1936
View of the General Motors experimental streamliner the Aerotrain led by a LWT12 locomotive at Union Station in Denver, Colorado. The streamlined locomotive has four headlights. A steel viaduct and a flour mill are in the distance.
10:30 A.M. General Motors Aerotrain entering Denver Union Station
1956 March 18
A man and woman passenger prepare to board the Southern Pacific Coast Daylight at the 3rd & Townsend Street Station in San Francisco, California. An African American baggage porter walks behind them with two suitcases. Shows the aluminum exterior of the streamliner.
Boarding Daylight at 3rd St, S.F.
Burlington Zephyr "Silver Charger" carrying Prince Fredric and wife Ingrid of Denmark; shows a high speed silver streamliner of the Burlington Route (Chicago, Burlington & Quincy) with three car bodies mounted on four trucks; "General Pershing Zephyr."
Burlington Special carrying crowned Prince Fredric and wife Ingrid of Denmark, 4-18-'39
April 18, 1939
Colorado & Southern publicity shot on September 8, 1940 shows Texas Zephyr 9950 (also known as the Silver Racer) plus additional diesel unit engine, a Burlington Route high speed silver streamliner with eight baggage and passenger cars, near Larkspur, Douglas County, Colorado.
Burlington Streamline Train, Texas Zephyr, near Larkspur
[1940]
View of Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad Company streamliner "Hiawatha" led by steam locomotive #1 at a railroad crossing in Perry (Dane County), Wisconsin. Shows a coaling tower, an abandoned building and a railroad freight car on wooden blocks. A railroad signal is near the tracks.
C.M.St.P. & P., no smoke, eng. #1 (4-4-2) "Hiawatha" eastbound, leaving Perry, WI, almost headon
1945 October 22
View of the Southern Pacific Railroad depot on University Avenue in Berkeley (Alameda County), California. People walk between the Mission Style building arcades and a Chicago & Northwestern / Union Pacific locomotive and train, the "City of San Francisco."
City of SF at Berkeley
1943
View at the Southern Pacific Railroad depot in Palm Springs (Riverside County), California. Women pose by a 1948 Ford "woody" station wagon and the Mission Style building; the Southern Pacific locomotive and streamliner "Golden State" waits by a sign that reads: "Palm Springs Stage."
Golden State at Palm Springs Station
1948-1949?

Stapleton International Airport Fuel Tank Fire

WH2129 RMN Box 321 Royce Sanders taking a short break George Kochaniec Jr
November 1990
WH2129 RMN Box 321 roaring fire engulfs fuel tanks at stapleton Jim Thompson 396
November 1990
WH2129 RMN Box 321 Mario Valverde of Station 12 pulls hoses George Kochaniec Jr 394
November 1990
WH2129 RMN Box 321 George Garrod Asst Fire Chief George Kochaniec Jr 392
November 1990
WH2129 RMN Box 321 firefighters apply foam to fuel tanks on 3 day fire George Kochaniec Jr
November 1990
WH2129 RMN Box 321 firefighters apply foam to fuel tanks George Kochaniec Jr
November 1990

The Albany Hotel Fire

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Albany Hotel deconstruction, 1976
1976
Albany Hotel
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Albany Hotel being torn down in 1977
1977
Albany Hotel before wrecking ball in 1976
1976
Albany Hotel and night in 1968
1968
Albany Hotel in 1976
1976
Albany Hotel on fire
1962
Fire Captain Jack Lynch collapsed during fire
1962
Albany Hotel in 1956
1956
Albany Hotel fire, banquet room
1962

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