| Yuma Valley Railway | |
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| Locale | Yuma County, Arizona, USA |
| Dates of operation | 1914 (predecessor)–Present |
| Track gauge | 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) (standard gauge) |
| Headquarters | Yuma, Arizona |
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The Yuma Valley Railway is a heritage railroad in Arizona, which formerly operated an excursion passenger train on the rail line following the Colorado River levee between Yuma, Arizona and Gadsden, Arizona. The train has not operated since 2005, when the line was embargoed by the Bureau of Reclamation (see below). One locomotive and three passenger cars are currently (Feb. 2010) parked idle across the canal and south of the Yuma Quartermaster Depot.
The YVRY was originally owned by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation. It was part of the Interior Department's irrigation and flood control project along the levee of the Colorado River.
The U.S. Government's railroad was known as the Yuma Valley Railroad and operated from 1914 and into the 1980s. The Yuma Valley Railroad originally extended 25 miles from Yuma to the Arizona/Mexico border town of San Luis. In 1947 the Yuma Valley Railroad was leased to and operated by the Southern Pacific Railroad, at which time the 9 miles from Gadsden to San Luis were idle and later abandoned.