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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 ...
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.
Built by Arizona and California Railroad. Last Santa Fe passenger service 1955. Still in use by Arizona and California Railroad as a company office. Patagonia: SPRR: 1900: Built by New Mexico & Arizona Railroad. Last Southern Pacific passenger service 1962. Still standing. Restored in 1990s and 2000s. Peoria: ATSF: 1895
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 Phoenix Subdivision is a railroad line in the U.S. state of Arizona owned by the BNSF Railway.It runs from Phoenix in the south to Williams Junction in the north where it connects to the Seligman Subdivision and Southern Transcon. [1]
The Arizona and California Railroad (reporting mark ARZC) is a class III short line railroad that was a subdivision of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (ATSF). The ARZC began operations on May 9, 1991, when David Parkinson of the ParkSierra RailGroup purchased the line from the Santa Fe Railway.
The Arizona Eastern was leased by the Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) in 1905 and merged into the SP system in 1924. [2] SP sold the Bowie – Miami line to Kyle Railroad in 1988. [2] Kyle was purchased by shortline holding company StatesRail in 1995, which was eventually purchased by RailAmerica in 2001. [2] RailAmerica sold the railroad to ...