Cloud-Climbing Railroad
In order to provide timber for the construction of his El Paso & Northeastern Railroad north of Alamagordo, 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.
Marker is on U.S. 82, on the right when traveling east.
Courtesy hmdb.org
