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Rotary snow plow train

Colorado Digitization Project
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1936?
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Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company
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Photograph showing a steam rotary snow plow train clearing its way through very deep snow. This train was probably on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad's Ibex Branch line. This line was built in 1898 to transport supplies and workers to the Ibex Mining Company on Breece Hill (approximately 11,500 ft. in elevation) east of Leadville and to take ore down the mountain to the Arkansas Valley Smelter. 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 railroad closed down the Ibex Branch line in 1944.
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