2007-01-032022-02-032007-01-032022-02-03https://hdl.handle.net/11124/8782Rotary snow plow. Breckenridge 1920's.Date scanned: 2001-03-27.Identifier: NMHFM-236.Related photographs: NMHFM-230Unmounted; text on verso.Held in the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum.Donor: Charles Burgess.Photograph showing the narrow gauge rotary snow plow train stopped in Breckenridge during the 1920s and several people standing in the snow beside it. Breckenridge was on the High Line, which went from Como to Leadville, and was built by the Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad (DSP&P). During the 1870s, the DSP&P and the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad (D&RG) were in a race to be the first railroad to reach Leadville. DSP&P began constructing their line through Platte Canyon in 1876, and by 1879 they had laid tracks across South Park and over Trout Creek Pass to the Arkansas River. However in 1879 the DSP&P was taken over by the Union Pacific Railroad, and it was decided that the D&RG would be the one to build a line up the Arkansas River Valley to Leadville. According to the terms of a Joint Operating Agreement, the DSP&P was allowed to use the other railroad's tracks to Leadville, but in 1881 they decided instead to begin building the High Line to Leadville.Rights management statement available at: http://library.mines.edu/digital/rights.htmlRailroadsStillImage