View of a Denver & Rio Grande Railway train on the Highline, Silverton Branch, in the Canyon of the Rio Las Animas (Animas Gorge) La Plata County, Colorado. A narrow gauge engine narrow gauge locomotive and caboose on a rock ledge above the Animas River (Rio Las Animas), in probably La Plata County, Colorado. A man stands beside the caboose. Elk antlers are mounted on the engine. Shows rock outcroppings, forests, mountains and a railroad trestle in the distance.
Date
[between 1880 and 1886?]
Notes
Accession number: 86.200.6860; Attribution to Jackson based on the photonegative's inclusion in the History Colorado William Henry Jackson collection.; History Colorado.; Condition: masked, retouched, corner broken and missing.; Formerly Jackson 1037; Number: "01037" inked on negative.; Title inked on negative.; Title on envelope for negative reads: "Canon of the Rio Las Animas, D & RG."; R7201037997
Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company--1880-1890.; Animas River (Colo. and N.M. )--1880-1890.; La Plata County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Canyons--Colorado--La Plata County--1880-1890.; Railroads--Colorado--La Plata County--1880-1890.; Rivers--Colorado--La Plata County--1880-1890.
