Mexican Canyon Trestle - Cloudcroft, NM
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saopaulo1
N 32° 57.473 W 105° 44.166
13S E 431203 N 3646857
A plaque about a trestle bridge in Cloudcroft.
Waymark Code: WMTJ3G
Location: New Mexico, United States
Date Posted: 11/27/2016
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Spanning the Mexican Canyon of the Sacramento Mountains, this is the largest remaining trestle of 58 constructed for Charles R Eddy's Alamogordo and Sacramento railway. Climbing 4747 feet in 32.5 miles, the spur accessed timber for Eddy's El Paso and Northeastern Railway. It also carried passengers in open sided cars to Cloudcroft resorts and cabins. The line was abandoned in 1947, but immortalized in the cloud climbing railroad by Dorthy Jensen Neal. The 323 feet long trestle is Cloudcrofts symbol and was restored by the US Forest Service in 2010.
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