Bridge A 249 is a historic wooden trestle bridge in New Mexico's Sacramento Mountains, Otero County, New Mexico, just outside Cloudcroft, New Mexico. It was listed on the

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in 2015 as Bridge A 249-Cloudcroft, New Mexico. It is a very small trestle bridge, relative to the Mexico Canyon Railroad Trestle a short ways away, which has a viewpoint from the highway. This one has just three small spans: a central span resting on wooden supports and two approach spans. It is a single-tier wood-frame trestle which was part of the Alamogordo & Sacramento Mountains Railroad, a railroad that operated from 1899 to 1947. The railroad had about of track connecting

Alamogordo, New Mexico Alamogordo () is the seat of Otero County, New Mexico, United States. A city in the Tularosa Basin of the Chihuahuan Desert, it is bordered on the east by the Sacramento Mountains and to the west by Holloman Air Force Base. The population was ...

to spruce and fir timber areas in the Sacramento Mountains. This trestle is one of seven trestles surviving out of 51 built by the railroad. It was deemed significant "in the area of engineering because it is a representative design by Chief Engineer H. A. Sumner of small trestles required to continue the rail line over small drainages in the upper elevations of the A&SM Railroad." It is located west of

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, northwest of Cloudcroft, New Mexico

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Trestle bridges in the United States Bridges in New Mexico National Register of Historic Places in Otero County, New Mexico {{NewMexico-NRHP-stub