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• 1.   Road Repair
  20th Century
• 2.   Road Closed Sign
  20th Century
• 3.   Early Construction
  July 23, 1936
• 4.   Station 258, Sec 2B Rock spilled down mountain side
  November 19, 1936
• 5.   Unsurfaced Road
  February 2, 1937
• 6.   Deep Rock Cut
  September 9, 1937
• 7.   Fill Slide
  September 9, 1937
• 8.   Deep Rock Cut North
  September 14, 1937
• 9.   Unpaved roadway with erosion
  July 25, 1938
• 10.   Rock slide, partially cleared
  July 25, 1939
• 11.   Rock slide and scaling operations
  July 25, 1939
• 12.   Before flood and P.R.A. regrading
  September 25, 1939
• 13.   Workers at landslide
  November 7, 1939
• 14.   Rock slide Bluff Park Heavy maintenance
  1940s
• 15.   60 foot cut Great quantities of natural ground water have caused much trouble in this cut
  July 8, 1940
• 16.   60 foot cut: Great quantities of natural ground water cause trouble in this cut
  July 26, 1940
• 17.   Flood Damage
  August 17, 1940
• 18.   Flood Damage
  August 17, 1940
• 19.   Flood Damage
  August 17, 1940
• 20.   Road which was carried away by the rains and slide of Aug 13, 1940
  August 17, 1940
• 21.   Flood damage, Debris washed into lower valleys.
  August 17, 1940
• 22.   Flood Damage
  August 17, 1940
• 23.   Flood damage fill wash
  August 21, 1940
• 24.   Stream damage below Grandfather Mt.
  August 21, 1940
• 25.   Complete washout in road Flood damage
  August 16, 1940
• 26.   Slide composed of sandstone and shale
  August 16, 1940
• 27.   Flood Damage to Viaduct
  August 16, 1940
• 28.   Flood damage. Gutter washed in and across road.
  August 16, 1940
• 29.   Serious washout on fill
  August 16, 1940
• 30.   Landslide from nearby cut in road
  August 16, 1940
• 31.   Parkway Flood Damage
  August 16, 1940
• 32.   Slide on Sec 2K
  August 16, 1940
• 33.   Road washed out
  August 16, 1940
• 34.   Block of road washed away
  August 16, 1940
• 35.   Logs on Parkway
  August 16, 1940
• 36.   Flood Damage
  August 16, 1940
• 37.   Washed Out Fill
  August 16, 1940
• 38.   Flood damage
  August 16, 1940
• 39.   Road completely blocked by slide
  August 16, 1940
• 40.   Gutter, Shoulder, and Part of Road Washed Out
  August 16, 1940
• 41.   Block of road entirely removed by terrific stream of water
  August 16, 1940
• 42.   Large slide in road
  August 16, 1940
• 43.   Large slide in road
  August 16, 1940
• 44.   Gully and sheet erosion (mulching with pine)
  November 1941
• 45.   Snow WPA Clearing the Road
  March 1942
• 46.   Snow. Austin-Weston grader used to clear road
  March 1942
• 47.   Snow, Austin-Weston Grader Used to Clear Road
  March 1942
• 48.   Spreading Calcium Chloride
  July 7, 1942
• 49.   Removing rock slide from ditch line
  August 26, 1942
• 50.   Pavement struck by lightning
  March 29, 1943
• 51.   Parkway motor road blocked with snow, Motorist stalled, Damage to shoulder and slope
  March 1947
• 52.   Slide Near Crabtree Meadows
  November 1951
• 53.   Fallen rock
  February 8, 1952
• 54.   Rock Slide
  May 19, 1952
• 55.   Deteriorated Grate
  May 19, 1952
• 56.   Tunnel failure
  1953
• 57.   Rock Slide on Gillespie Gap
  February 20, 1955
• 58.   Slide, Sec. 2-Y-4, Sta. 117 + 30
  February 4, 1957
• 59.   Slide, Sec. 2-Y-4, Sta. 117 + 30
  February 4, 1957
• 60.   Rock Slide
  April 3, 1957
• 61.   Fill Slide
  April 5, 1957
• 62.   Fill Slide-Photo #2 was taken about 3 minutes after photo #1 (Photo #2)
  April 5, 1957
• 63.   Fill Slide
  April 5, 1957
• 64.   Snow Drift
  January 1958
• 65.   Rock Slides
  1970s
• 66.   Slides
  1970s
• 67.   Slides
  1970s
• 68.   Rock Slides
  1970s
• 69.   Slides
  1970s
• 70.   Slides
  1970s
• 71.   Rock and mud slides heavy rains
  June 5, 1973
• 72.   Broken Pavement
  June 5, 1973
• 73.   Broken Pavement
  June 5, 1973
• 74.   Broken Pavement
  June 5, 1973
• 75.   Berm erosion
  June 5, 1973
• 76.   Road patching
  June 5, 1973
• 77.   Broken Pavement
  June 5, 1973
• 78.   Broken Pavement
  June 5, 1973
• 79.   Rock and mud slides heavy rains
  June 5, 1973
• 80.   Broken Pavement
  June 5, 1973
• 81.   Berm Erosion
  June 5, 1973
• 82.   Broken Pavement
  June 5, 1973
• 83.   Broken Pavement
  June 5, 1973
• 84.   Rock and Mud Slides from Heavy Rains
  June 5, 1973
• 85.   Road Stripping - Yellow Road
  June 5, 1973
• 86.   Rock Slide
  June 5, 1973
• 87.   Road Patching
  June 5, 1973
• 88.   Broken Pavement
  June 5, 1973
• 89.   Road Patching
  June 5, 1973
• 90.   Road Patching
  June 5, 1973
• 91.   Road Patching
  June 5, 1973
• 92.   Warning Signs
  June 5, 1973
• 93.   Road Patching
  June 5, 1973
• 94.   Road Patching
  June 5, 1973
• 95.   Rock and Mud Slides from Heavy Rains
  June 5, 1973
• 96.   Rock and mud slides from heavy rains
  June 5, 1973
• 97.   Landslide
  October 30, 1973
• 98.   Landslide
  November 2, 1973
• 99.   Repairs on the Irwin's View Trail
  October 14, 1976
• 100.   Rockslide
  October 25, 1977
• 101.   Repairing Parkway near Alta Pass
  July 1978

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