List of Arizona railroads

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Contents

[edit] Current common carriers and utilities

[edit] Light Rail

[edit] Tourist railroads

[edit] Defunct railroads

[edit] Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (ATSF) now BNSF

[edit] Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) now UP

  • Arizona Eastern Railroad 1910-1955
    • Arizona Eastern Railroad Company of New Mexico 1904-1910
    • Arizona and Colorado Railroad 1902-1910
    • Gila Valley, Globe and Northern Railway 1894-1910 later AZER
    • Maricopa and Phoenix Railroad (of 1907) 1908-1910
      • Maricopa and Phoenix and Salt River Valley Railroad 1895-1908
        • Maricopa and Phoenix Railroad (of 1886) 1887-1895
        • Phoenix, Tempe and Mesa Railway 1894-1895
    • Arizona and Colorado Railroad Company of New Mexico 1904-1910
  • El Paso and Southwestern Railroad
    • Arizona and New Mexico Railway 1883-1935
      • Clifton and Southern Pacific Railway 1883 (Narrow Gauge)
      • Clifton and Lordsburg Railway
    • Arizona and South Eastern Rail Road 1888-1902
    • Mexico and Colorado Railroad 1908-1910
    • Southwestern Railroad of Arizona 1900-1901
    • Southwestern Railroad of New Mexico 1901-1902
  • New Mexico and Arizona Railroad 1882-1897 ATSF Subsidiary, 1897-1934 Non-operating SP subsidiary
  • Phoenix and Eastern Railroad 1903-1934 (owned by ATSF from 1903-1908)
  • Tucson and Nogales Railroad 1910-1934
    • Twin Buttes Railroad 1906-1929; Tucson-Sahuarita line sold to above in 1910. Sahuarita-Twin Buttes line scrapped in 1934.

[edit] Other railroads

  • Black Mesa and Lake Powell (BLKM) coal mine: dedicated electric line 1970(s)-present
  • Magma Arizona Railroad (MAA) 1920-1997 (railroad mothballed by BHP-Billiton)
  • Prescott and Arizona Central Railway 1887-1896 Seligman - Prescott
  • San Manuel Arizona Railroad (SMA) since 1953 - mine permanently closed in 2003, railroad mothballed in 2006. 8-mile section of track between smelter and mine removed in December 2005.
  • San Pedro and Southwestern Railroad / San Pedro Railroad Operating Company (SPSR) 2003-Present (line abandoned from Curtiss to Naco and Paul Spur in 2007, only 7-miles remain of the EP&SW 'South Line')
  • Tucson, Cornelia and Gila Bend Railroad (TCG) 1916-1984 line out of service and owned by Phelps Dodge Corporation Line reactivated briefly from 1995-1997 in order to haul scrap from smelter facility.

[edit] Private Railroads

[edit] Standard Gauge

[edit] Narrow Gauge

[edit] Proposed railroads

  • Arizona Railway 1864: Tucson - Nogales - Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico
  • Calabasas, Tucson and North Western Railroad 1885
    • Arizona Southern Railroad (of 1880) 1880: Santa Cruz County with branches to Washington Camp (near Lochiel) and another to Oro Blanco - Arivaca
  • Prescott & Phoenix Shortline Prescott - Cordes - Black Canyon City - Glendale - Phoenix - SPRR and ATSF subsidiary - line surveyed 1917
  • San Diego Bee Line San Diego - Altar, Sonora, Mexico - Calabasas (Rio Rico) - Tombstone - Deming, New Mexico
  • Salt River Project - Fence Lake Mine Extension St. Johns Power Plant, AZ - Zuni Pueblo Fence Lake mine, NM 50+ mile coal line proposed in 2001 by SRP, plans suspended in 2004 due to opposition from Zuni Tribe, a new coal contract from Powder River Basin now used in lieu of new mine.
  • ValTrans: elevated rail in Phoenix and adjacent cities, voted down in 1989 referendum
  • Regional Rail for Arizona

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  • Arizona Department of Transportation (2000). AZ DOT Rail Report (PDF). Fact Book. ADOT. Retrieved on March 23, 2006.
  • Association of American Railroads (2004). Railroad Service in Arizona (PDF). AAR. Retrieved on March 23, 2006.
  • Hilton, George W. (1990). American Narrow Gauge Railroads. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-2369-9. 
  • Myrick, David F. (1975). Railroads of Arizona - Volume 1: The Southern Roads. Berkeley, California: Howell-North Books. ISBN 0-8310-7111-7. 
  • Pearsall, Marc (2002). Map of Arizona Railroads (PDF). Railroads of Arizona (2002) Includes abandoned lines and historical lines surveys. Arizona Railway Museum. Retrieved on March 13, 2006.
  • Robertson, Donald B. (1986). Encyclopedia of Western Railroad History - The Desert States: Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah. Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers. ISBN 0-87004-305-6. 
  • Stindt, Fred A. (1996). American Shortline Railway Guide, 5th Edition, Waukesha, Wisconsin: Kalmbach Publishing. ISBN 0-89024-290-9. 
  • Walker, Mike (1995). Steam Powered Video's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Arizona & New Mexico. Kent, United Kingdom: Steam Powered Publishing. ISBN 1-874745-04-8. 
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