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Culebra Cut
We have this photograph from August of 1913 showing the wreckage from a rock slide with a steam shovel toppled over.
How frequently did accidents like this happen during the construction era?
How did workers with physical ailments, like the man in the center without a left arm, participate?
If you had family members who worked during this era, what did they experience?
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Culebra Cut
The caption reads “6-F Culebra Cut, Culebra. Quartermasters Department Excursion train in front of Contractors Hill. July 24, 1910”.
What can you tell us about the Quartermasters Department?
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Working on the Culebra Cut
Unfortunately, we do not have much information on this interesting photograph. We know its during the excavation of the Culebra cut. Please help us add more to this object’s record!
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Land slide at Culebra cut
Cutting through the continental divide a huge challenge for excavation, but other issues like land slides made the excavation of Culebra more difficult.
What can you tell us about land slides during the excavation of the Culebra cut?
What is happening in this stereograph?
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Steam shovel at Culebra Cut
What can you tell us about the equipment used to excavate the Culebra cut?
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Culebra Cut
Just one more day until the Centennial here! Culebra cut, formerly known as the Galliard cut, was one of the greatest engineering feats of its time.
Major David du Bose Galliard took the task to excavate the cut through the continental divide, but did not live to see it complete.
What can you tell us about the Culebra cut?
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