Cloudcroft Railroad Trestle
by Jack Pumphrey
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Title
Cloudcroft Railroad Trestle
Artist
Jack Pumphrey
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Photograph - Photograph
Description
The construction of this railway line by the El Paso & Northeastern Railroad to Cloudcroft was completed in 1900. It was created primarily to transport lumber from the Russia Canyon in the Sacramento Mountains. Due to the railroad it was determined that a village of some sort would need to be constructed on the crest of the Sacramento Mountains in order to service the railroad. It was also believed that this village would make a great tourism destination as well to escape the heat of the New Mexican desert. Thus the village of Cloudcroft was constructed at an altitude of nearly 9,000 feet. The railway to this village was thus given the name of the Alamogordo & Sacramento Mountain Railway.
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