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Cloud-Climbing Railroad

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