Cimarron Canyon trestle

Cimarron Canyon trestle, October 2012 The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad's Cimarron Canyon trestle, listed as D&RG Narrow Gauge Trestle on the National Register of Historic Places, is a narrow-gauge railroad deck truss bridge crossing the Cimarron River, within the Curecanti National Recreation Area near Cimarron, Colorado. The bridge was built in 1895 by the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, replacing a wooden trestle that was built sometime around 1882. The bridge was originally long but only a small portion of it remains today. Today this narrow-gauge trestle is the last remaining railroad bridge along the Black Canyon of the Gunnison route. The bridge has a steam locomotive, boxcar, and caboose on display – all of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad gauge. The steam locomotive is D&RGW #278, a 2-8-0 built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1882. The D&RGW used the designation C-16 for this class of locomotive; the letter C stands for consolidation (2-8-0) and the 16 for the number of thousands of pounds of tractive effort of the locomotive, in this case, 16,000 pounds of tractive effort. The boxcar, D&RGW #3132, was built in 1904 by the American Car and Foundry. Caboose #0577 was manufactured in 1886.