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Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf (UPD&G) 108 Accident

Description: A photograph postcard showing Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf (UPD&G) 108, 2-6-0, tipped over on its side in Clear Creek Canyon near Chimney Gulch, CO. Caused by overloaded baggage car. Loco at right with freight cars is 154. Loco on stub psgr. train is probably 198. (Note: UPD&G taken over by C&S)
Date: August 16, 1895
Creator: Rogers, C. C.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Union Pacific (UP) 818 & 2295 on "Pony Express"

Description: A photograph postcard showing Union Pacific (UP) 818, 4-8-4, and 2295, 2-8-2, running extra with passenger train No. 37, "Pony Express", on C&S track near Westminster, CO, due to burned up bridge. Train was made up backwards to avoid urning at Cheyenne, 15 cars, 30 mph. UP paid C&S $1.50 per mile for every train on C&S tracks.
Date: June 16, 1940
Creator: Kindig, Richard H.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0285.0103]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Lieut. Ralph Hay, son of Mrs. Alice Pearl Hay, Colorado Springs, Colo., is visiting his sister, Mrs. Olen Lee, 614 NW 7, after six months of duty in the European theater."
Date: May 16, 1945
Creator: Barclay, Betty
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Union Pacific (UP) 7002 on "Pony Express"

Description: A photograph postcard showing Union Pacific (UP) 7002, 4-8-2, on passenger train No. 38, "Pony Express", east of Denver, CO, 11 cars, 60 mph. (This was the first 7000 class in this area to be painted gray with nickel-plated cylinder heads.)
Date: April 16, 1947
Creator: Kindig, Richard H.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1293.0291]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Prominent figures in the annual reunion of 45th division veterans which closed Monday night in Denver were (back row, left) , Jack Edeford, Maj. Gen. W. W. Eagles, front row left, Capt. Jack Treadwell, William Seavey and Alton M. Moore."
Date: September 16, 1947
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0316.0509]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Two tractors, right, etch a pattern of protection across a barren Dust Bowl farm near Walsh, Colo., in the nation's arid Southwest."
Date: July 16, 1954
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1164.0158]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Kathryn Kelly, 55-year-old widow of gangster George "Machine Gun" Kelly, and her 71-year-old mother, Mrs. Ora Shannon, were orderreturned to federal prson Monday by the U.S. circuit court of appeals in Denver, Colorado."
Date: June 16, 1958
Creator: King, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1180.0393]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "There's nothing like a hot cup of coffee after a hard morning's skiing. Conversing are, from left, OKC residents Mrs. Ford Price, Mrs. Dick Novetzke, Mrs. Jerry Lucas, Al Fisher of Crested Butte, Colo., R. C. Cunningham II, Mrs. Jay Sanders, Mr. Sanders and Mrs. Van Cleef."
Date: February 16, 1964
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1180.0396]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Oklahoma City residents skiing at Breckenridge in Colorado are Bill Bonnell, left, and Steve Anderson."
Date: February 16, 1964
Creator: Breckenridge Lands, Inc.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1180.0397]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Jay Sanders, among several OKC residents on a 1964 ski excursion to Crested Butte, Colorado, took a spill in the snow, and is keeping her friends so entertained. She's finding that the ski instructor's advice on pulling oneself "up" from the fall is working!"
Date: February 16, 1964
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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