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Train and crew
Colorado Digitization Project National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum
Colorado Digitization Project
National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum
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1936?
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Photograph showing the train stopped in Ibex, and three crew members (Chambers, Sinclair and McMahan) standing in front of the locomotive. The train has a crane with a bucket used to clear snow from the tracks. This train line to Ibex was built in 1898 by the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad to transport supplies and miners to the Ibex Mining Company on Breece Hill (approximately 11,500 ft. in elevation) east of Leadville and to take the ore down the mountain to the Arkansas Valley Smelter. The train could pull 60 ore cars at one time. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, Ibex's Little Jonny Mine was one of the few mines in the Leadville area that continued to operate. The Denver and Rio Grande closed down the Ibex Branch line in 1944.
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