The Carrizozo information center was housed in this old caboose.

The town's logo was featured on the side of the caboose. It showed the railroad separating the mountains to the east from the Valley of Fires lava bed to the west. A brochure explained the significance of the dates:

1899: railroad came to town

1909: town became county seat

1912: NM's first governor was a local rancher

1916: town of Carrizozo was incorporated

The railroad still ran through Carrizozo, as evidenced by these Union Pacific locomotives I photographed as they sped through the south end of town. However, many of the jobs that once came with it were long gone.

Roy's was a genuine old-fashioned soda fountain with fantastic, generously poured chocolate malts.

This sign was painted on the side of Roy's. Doesn't " antique atmosphere" sound like stale air?

There was unique metalwork in the railings on the front steps of Roy's.

I liked the ornate iron bars over the windows of the Little Laundromat.