Photo Archive — Buena Vista Heritage

Digital Photo Archive

We were presented with a grant through the Colorado Historic Research and Archives Board and the Buena Vista Heritage Preservation Commission through the town of Buena Vista. This project is an effort to make our photographic collections digital and able to be accessed for research by the public.

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Camp on the Midland Railroad, while they were laying track in 1886

Denver & Rio Grande depot, located on the east side of the present Chaffee County Times building

Bill Turner drives a team of horses, hauling rails from Alpine Railroad to Hancock, 1924

A train crosses a trestle on the Midland Railroad, north of BV

Robert (on the left) and Tommy (on the right) Caskie lead a heavily laden burro up Mt. Antero, 1910

A train waits at the station in Tin Cup, covered in snow

Oscar Chapa's Burro, Prunes, ready for a pack trip, July 1980

Haystacks, towering over two men and their cars

Booklet containing the timetables and map of the Colorado Midland Railway

Tom or Robert Caskie taking a break from working to eat lunch

From back of the photo: "Black Jack and Gang. They were followed from Rawlings to place where picture was taken, about four miles north of Alder, Colorado. They were captured in a deep ravine in the Sangre [de] Christo Range. Black Jack is foreground on left. There is a large reward offered for his capture -- dead or alive. The rest of the party are serving a life sentence in Canon City. #1 Slippery Jim, #2 Black Jack, #3 Whiskey Pete, #4 Lewis Swallow." This was a hunting trip for the men. Swallow was a prankster and liked to pose for pictures such as this. #2 (Black Jack) is Arthur Hutchinson

Midland Tunnels, near Fourmile, with the tracks still running through them.