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Arizona and Colorado Railroad: SP: 1902 1910 Arizona Eastern Railroad: Arizona Eastern Railroad: AE 1904 1955 Southern Pacific Company: Arizona Extension Railroad: 1917 N/A Arizona Mineral Belt Railroad: 1883 1888 Central Arizona Railway: Arizona Narrow Gauge Railroad: 1882 1887 Tucson, Globe and Northern Railroad: Arizona and New Mexico ...
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The United States has a high concentration of railway towns, communities that developed and/or were built around a railway system. Railway towns are particularly abundant in the midwest and western states, and the railroad has been credited as a major force in the economic and geographic development of the country. [1]
Steam Powered Video's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America – Arizona & New Mexico. Kent, UK: Steam Powered Publishing. ISBN 1874745048. Schweiterman, Joseph P (2004). When the Railroad Leaves Town: American Communities in the Age of Rail Line Abandonment, Volume 2. Truman State University Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-1931112147
Built by New Mexico & Arizona Railroad. Last Southern Pacific passenger service 1962. Still standing. Restored in 1990s and 2000s. Peoria: ATSF: 1895: Built by Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Railway. Last Santa Fe passenger service 1969. Moved to Scottsdale's McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park, 1972. Still standing. Perkinsville: ATSF: 1912
Fallen Southern Pacific Railroad cars in Carrizo Gorge, 2010.. The San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway 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 and build a railroad to provide San Diego with a direct rail link to the east by connecting with the Southern Pacific (SP) lines in El Centro ...
The Colorado Department of Transportation purchased the line from UP in 1998 for $10.2 million in hopes of finding a short-line operator to serve farmers and others in small towns along the route. [4] In 2000, CDOT leased the line to the Colorado, Kansas & Pacific Railway. In 2004, the lease was transferred to V&S Railway. [5]