The wooden trestle seen here was originally constructed in the late 1800s. It has acquired the unofficial names of "Ferguson's Trestle", or "Hangman's Trestle" for a man from Antonito, CO, who was allegedly hanged there for some unknown crime. The story line is that apparently, the folks who conducted the hanging commandeered a locomotive and ran it west until they encountered the first structure from which a man could be hanged without his feet touching the ground. How true that story is depends upon who you talk to. It is known that the original bridge was used in 1988 for the filming of a made-for-TV movie called "Where the Hell's that gold", when a planned explosion went awry and set fire to the bridge, destroying it. It was replaced with a temporary span within days, and was re-built to original specifications the following year.