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Fallen Southern Pacific Railroad cars in Carrizo Gorge, 2010.. The San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway Company traces its origins back to December 14, 1906, when entrepreneur John D. Spreckels announced he would form the San Diego and Arizona (SD&A) Railway Company and build a railroad to provide San Diego with a direct rail link to the east by connecting with the Southern Pacific (SP) lines ...
The San Diego and Arizona Railway (reporting mark SDA) was a 148-mile (238 km) short line U.S. railroad founded by entrepreneur John D. Spreckels, and dubbed "The Impossible Railroad" by engineers of its day due to the immense logistical challenges involved.
Goat Canyon Trestle is a wooden trestle in San Diego County, California. [1] At a length of 597–750 feet (182–229 m), it is the world's largest all-wood trestle. [1] [8] [10] [11] Goat Canyon Trestle was built in 1933 as part of the San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway, after one of the many tunnels through the Carrizo Gorge collapsed.
Completed in 1904, the Crown King Branch of the Bradshaw Mountain Railroad, also known as Murphy's Impossible Railroad, linked the town of Crown King with the end of the Prescott and Eastern Railroad at Mayer, Arizona. Frank Murphy began construction of the standard gauge railway in 1895. Construction was completed in 1904 when it reached Crown ...
Beginning in 1912, construction began on the San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway in the area. [13] The Carrizo Gorge portion of the line, including Goat Canyon, was the final portion to be completed. [15] A railroad tunnel of The San Diego and Arizona Railway, Tunnel number 15, was built into the side of the canyon but it collapsed in 1932. [16]
Carrizo Gorge Railway never owned any locomotives, but leased from various places. The railroad leased several locomotives from its employees and stockholder's interests from East County Dirt Works (ECDW). Two EMD F7As 100 & 102, ex-WCRC, née B&LE. One EMD F7B 101, ex-WCRC, née B&LE. One EMD GP9 3878, ex-DLSX, née SP. One EMD GP9 4324, ex-C&NW.
Rail service to the area began in 1904 upon completion of "Murphy's Impossible Railroad" – a series of switchbacks and trestles that ascended the mountain terrain between Cleator and Crown King. The railroad began in Mayer, Arizona, connecting with Murphy's Prescott and Eastern Railroad and extended for 28 miles amid the rocky terrain. [4]
1795–96 & 1799–1804 or '05 — In 1795, Charles Bulfinch, the architect of Boston's famed State House first employed a temporary funicular railway with specially designed dumper cars to decapitate 'the Tremont's' Beacon Hill summit and begin the decades long land reclamation projects which created most of the real estate in Boston's lower elevations of today from broad mud flats, such as ...