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Cloud-Climbing Railroad

in New Mexico Historical Markers

Posted by:

Bernd das Brot Team

N 32° 57.872 W 105° 44.869

13S E 430113 N 3647603

Quick Description: Historical Marker in memory of the El Paso & Northeastern Railroad

Location: New Mexico, United States

Date Posted: 2/19/2008 8:14:16 PM

Waymark Code: WM36XE

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Long Description:

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This was once a railroad. Now it is nothing but a highway

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Marker Text:

Cloud-Climbing Railroad

In order to provide timber for the construction of his El Paso & Northeastern Railroad north of Alamogordo, Charles B. Eddy in 1898 built a spur into the Sacramento Mountains. The line operated as far as Cloudcroft until 1947. The Cloudcroft Trestle is all that remains.

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