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Built by Arizona and New Mexico Railway. Last Southern Pacific mixed passenger service 1967. Still standing. Replica of this depot built in late 1990s at Scottsdale's McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park. Cochise: 1905: Moved to 1825 West Dragoon Road within the town limits of Cochise and is now the Cochise Marijuana Dispensary. Coolidge: 1925
Central Arizona Railway: Arizona Narrow Gauge Railroad: 1882 1887 Tucson, Globe and Northern Railroad: Arizona and New Mexico Railway: SP: 1883 1935 El Paso and Southwestern Railroad: Arizona and South Eastern Railroad: SP: 1888 1902 El Paso and Southwestern Railroad: Arizona Southern Railroad: AZS 1904 1933 N/A Arizona and Swansea Railroad ...
This diagram shows active mainline railway stations, and is current as of August 2021. This is a route-map template for the List of Arizona railroads, a state passenger rail network. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}. For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
Significant distances requiring transportation in Southern Arizona are generally traveled by highway and the railroad. Southern Arizona is the location of the major transcontinental Interstate highway Interstate 10 from the border with New Mexico westward through Tucson, and then continuing northwest via Casa Grande to the Phoenix–Scottsdale–Mesa metropolis.
The El Paso and Southwestern Railroad began in 1888 as the Arizona and South Eastern Railroad, a short line serving copper mines in southern Arizona. Over the next few decades, it grew into a 1200-mile system that stretched from Tucumcari, New Mexico, southward to El Paso, Texas, and westward to Tucson, Arizona, with several branch lines, including one to Nacozari, Mexico.
The mainline now used by ARZC was originally constructed between 1903 and 1910 by the Arizona and California Railway. The line between A&C Junction, AZ, and Parker opened by June 1907. The Colorado River bridge near Parker was completed in June 1908 and the track connection in Cadiz, California was made on June 10, 1910; service to Cadiz ...
In 1888 Arizona & Southeastern built a 60-mile (97 km) line southward along the San Pedro River from a connection with the Southern Pacific Railroad at Benson to Bisbee. The A&SE track partially paralleled the New Mexico and Arizona Railroad (NM&A) that was built six years earlier (1882) on the opposite side of the San Pedro River from Benson ...
The Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Railway (SFP&P) was a common carrier railroad that later became an operating subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in Arizona. At Ash Fork, Arizona , the SFP&P connected with Santa Fe's operating subsidiary, the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad mainline, that ran from California to Chicago .