Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Grand Canyon Railway: ATSF: 1901 1942 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway: Johnson, Dragoon Mountain and Northern Railway: SP: 1907 1908 Johnson–Dragoon and Northern Railway: Johnson–Dragoon and Northern Railway: SP: 1908 1911 Southern Pacific Company: Magma Arizona Railroad: MAA 1914 1997 N/A Maricopa and Phoenix Railroad: SP: 1907 1910 ...
The Grand Canyon Railway (reporting mark GCRX) is a heritage railroad which carries passengers between Williams, Arizona, and the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park. The 64-mile (103 km) railroad, built by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway , was completed on September 17, 1901.
Grand Canyon: GCRX: 1904: Built by Santa Fe and Grand Canyon Railroad. Last Santa Fe passenger service July 1968. Restored by National Park Service, 1987. Excursion service began September 1989 by Grand Canyon Railway. Grand Canyon: ATSF: 1905: El Tovar Harvey House. Designed by Santa Fe Railway architect Charles Whittlesey. Still standing.
It was the last train to run on the line for fifteen years. The station building at Williams Depot fell into disuse. Steam locomotive No. 539 on display while a passenger train is waiting to depart, 2017. Plans by entertainer Arthur Godfrey to resume service on the Grand Canyon Railway in 1977 fell through. In addition, two other companies ...
The discovery of water at Tombstone allowed the erection of mill sites there rendering the San Pedro River mill sites superfluous; when the Contention Mine and the silver mines in Tombstone flooded in 1886 and 1887, after the 1887 Sonora earthquake, the mills were forced to shut down, and Contention City suffered a fatal blow. The population ...
It was the railway's goal to develop the Grand Canyon branch line to feed passengers into its system, stimulating rail traffic. The result was the only railroad line to a destination within a national park. The original developer of the line to the Grand Canyon was the Santa Fe and Grand Canyon Railroad, established in 1897 to serve a copper ...
First settled in 1881, Fairbank was the closest rail stop to nearby Tombstone, which made it an important location in the development of southeastern Arizona. The town was named for Chicago investor Nathaniel Kellogg Fairbank who partially financed the railroad, and was the founder of the Grand Central Mining Company, which had an interest in ...
In 1901 the Santa Fe Railroad completed a 64-mile (103-km) branch from Williams, Arizona, to "Grand Canyon Village" at the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park. The first scheduled train arrived from Williams on September 17 of that year; branch line trains and excursions from Southern California , Chicago, and Texas could run directly to ...