Great Picture

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Great Picture

My daughter sent this picture of the Alamogordo and Sacramento Railroad this morning, it must have been taken in the early 1900s. It is the Bailey Canyon S Curve Trestle (long gone).

I grew up in El Paso TX and traveled to the New Mexico Sacramento Mountains quite often. I later moved just west of Cloudcroft in Alamogordo NM. My layout is based on the Cloudcroft/Sacramento Mountains.

The only trestle left, Mexican Canyon Trestle, was restored by the USDA in 2010.

Before Restoration

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That is a great picture.

An S-Curved Trestle… there must have been a unique need for such a thing.

This is the largest trestle I ever built, in N Scale on the Scale Rails Of Southwest Florida portable layout.

-Kevin

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Great looking bridges guys. Not only the prototypical photos but the models look awesome.

TF