sentences:  A railroad, the Albuquerque Eastern Railway, was proposed to run through the Canyon in 1901, connecting to the New Mexico Central at Moriarity, with a branch to the coalfields around Hagan.Some grading for the trackbed was done (still visible at places near the western mouth) but tracks were never laid in the canyon, and the project was abandoned in 1908.The name "Tijeras" means "scissors" in Spanish, and the name is said to come from the junction of two tributary canyons, or perhaps of two roads.