LIST OF ARIZONA RAILROADS

==Current common carriers and utilities==

★ Amtrak (AMTK)

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★ ''Sunset Limited'' via trackage rights over the UP

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★ ''Southwest Chief'' via trackage rights over the BNSF

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★ ''Texas Eagle''

★ Apache Railway (APA) ''since 1917''

★ Arizona and California Railroad (ARZC) ''since 1991 from ATSF''

★ Arizona Central Railroad (AZCR) ''since 1989 from ATSF''

★ Arizona Eastern Railway (AZER) ''since 1988 from SP''

★ BNSF Railway (BNSF) ''since 1995 from ATSF''

★ Copper Basin Railway (CBRY) ''since 1986 from KCCX and SPRR''

★ Union Pacific Railroad (UP) ''since 1996 (in AZ) from SP''

Contents

Light Rail

Tourist railroads

Defunct railroads

Other railroads

Private Railroads

Standard Gauge

Narrow Gauge

Proposed railroads

See also

References

Light Rail

★ Valley Metro Rail (Phoenix) (scheduled to open 26 December 2008)

Tourist railroads

★ Grand Canyon Railway 1989 (GCRX) 1989-Present

★ Old Pueblo Trolley - Tucson, Arizona

★ Southern Arizona Transportation Museum - Tucson, Arizona

★ Verde Canyon Railroad - Clarkdale, Arizona 1990 (VCR) 1990-Present

★ Yuma Valley Railway (YVRY) 1970s - 2005 (line embargoed by owner US Bureau of Reclamation)

Defunct railroads

===Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (ATSF) ''now BNSF''===

★ California, Arizona and Santa Fe Railway 1911-1963 non-operating subsidiary of ATSF

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★ Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Railway 1892-1911

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★ Arizona and California Railway 1903-1905

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★ Bradshaw Mountain Railroad ''Non-Operating Subsidiary'' 1902-1912

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★ Prescott and Eastern Railroad 1897-1911

★ Grand Canyon Railway 1901-1942 became an operating subsidiary of ATSF in 1902 and a non-operating subsidiary in 1924.

★ Phoenix and Eastern Railroad 1903-1934 (owned by ATSF from 1903-1908)

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★ Santa Fe and Grand Canyon Railroad 1897-1901

★ New Mexico and Arizona Railroad 1882-1897 ATSF Subsidiary, 1897-1934 Non-operating SP subsidiary

★ Santa Fe Pacific Railroad 1897-1902

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★ Atlantic and Pacific Railroad 1880-1897

★ Verde Valley Railway 1913-1942 ''an ATSF "paper railroad" at Clarkdale, AZ''

★ Western Arizona Railway 1906-1931 ATSF subsidiary Kingman - Chloride

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★ Arizona and Utah Railway[1]
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★ Arizona Eastern Railroad 1910-1955

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★ Arizona Eastern Railroad Company of New Mexico 1904-1910

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★ Arizona and Colorado Railroad 1902-1910

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★ Gila Valley, Globe and Northern Railway 1894-1910 later AZER

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★ Maricopa and Phoenix Railroad (of 1907) 1908-1910

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★ Maricopa and Phoenix and Salt River Valley Railroad 1895-1908

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★ Maricopa and Phoenix Railroad (of 1886) 1887-1895

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★ Arizona Central Railroad 1881-1887

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★ Phoenix, Tempe and Mesa Railway 1894-1895

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★ Arizona and Colorado Railroad Company of New Mexico 1904-1910

★ El Paso and Southwestern Railroad

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★ Arizona and New Mexico Railway 1883-1935

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★ Clifton and Southern Pacific Railway 1883 (Narrow Gauge)

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★ Clifton and Lordsburg Railway

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★ Arizona and South Eastern Rail Road 1888-1902

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★ Mexico and Colorado Railroad 1908-1910

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★ Southwestern Railroad of Arizona 1900-1901

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★ 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

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★ Twin Buttes Railroad 1906-1929; Tucson-Sahuarita line sold to above in 1910. Sahuarita-Twin Buttes line scrapped in 1934.

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')''

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★ San Pedro and Southwestern Railroad (SWKR) ''from SP, 1992-2003''

★ 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.

Private Railroads

Standard Gauge

★ Arizona and Swansea Railroad (mine) 1909-1937

★ Arizona Lumber and Timber (logging) 1907-1941

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★ Central Arizona Railway 1889-1937

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★ Arizona Mineral Belt Rail Road 1883-1889

★ Arizona Southern Railroad (1904) (copper mine) 1904-1933 Red Rock-Silverbell Mine

★ Congress Gold Company 1896-1920 Interchanged with ATSF at Congress Jct.

★ Flagstaff Lumber Manufacturing 1910-1927

★ Johnson, Dragoon and Northern Railway

★ Kennecott Copper (KCCX)

★ Mascot and Western Railroad 1915-1932 abandoned 1955 Willcox, AZ

★ Saginaw and Manistee Lumber (logging/mine) 1903-1953

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★ Saginaw Southern Railroad 1898-1903

★ Six Companies Railroad (Hoover Dam) 1931-1935

★ Tombstone and Southern Railroad

★ Tucson, Globe and Northern Railroad 1887-1896

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★ Arizona Narrow-Gauge Railroad 1882-1887

★ Verde Tunnel and Smelter Railroad (copper mine) 1915-1952 Clarkdale, AZ

★ White Mountain Scenic Railroad 1964-1976

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★ Southwest Forest Industries (lumber) 1960-1966

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★ Southwest Lumber Mills 1935-1960

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★ Cady Lumber 1924-1935

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★ Apache Lumber 1917-1924

★ Yuma Valley Railroad U.S. Deptartment of the Interior

Narrow Gauge

★ Arizona and New Mexico Railway

★ Arizona Narrow Gauge Railroad Tucson towards Oracle

★ Coronado Railroad (copper mine) 1905-1923 Narrow Gauge Clifton - Morenci owned by Phelps Dodge Corporation

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★ Coronado Railway owned by Arizona Copper 1879-1900

★ Helvetia Copper (copper mine) near Sahuarita, AZ c. 1899-1905

★ Mohave and Milltown Railway (gold mine) 1903-1904 abandoned 1912 near Oatman, AZ

★ Morenci Southern Railway (copper mine) 1901-1922 Narrow Gauge

★ Ray and Gila Valley Railroad (mine) 1910-1943 Narrow Gauge

★ Shannon-Arizona Railway (mine) 1910-1938 narrow gauge sold to Phelps Dodge Corporation in Clifton, AZ

★ United Verde and Pacific Railway (copper mine) 1895-1920 Narrow Gauge Jerome Junction, AZ to Jerome, AZ

Proposed railroads

★ Arizona Railway 1864: Tucson - Nogales - Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico

★ Calabasas, Tucson and North Western Railroad 1885

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★ 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''

See also

★ List of United States railroads

References

★ AZ DOT Rail Report Arizona Department of Transportation

★ Railroad Service in Arizona Association of American Railroads

★ American Narrow Gauge Railroads, Hilton, George W., , , Stanford University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-8047-2369-9

★ Railroads of Arizona - Volume 1: The Southern Roads, Myrick, David F., , , Howell-North Books, 1975, ISBN 0-8310-7111-7

★ Map of Arizona Railroads Pearsall, Marc

★ Encyclopedia of Western Railroad History - The Desert States: Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah, Robertson, Donald B., , , The Caxton Printers, 1986, ISBN 0-87004-305-6

★ American Shortline Railway Guide, Stindt, Fred A., , , Kalmbach Publishing, 1996, ISBN 0-89024-290-9

★ Steam Powered Video's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Arizona & New Mexico, Walker, Mike, , , Steam Powered Publishing, 1995, ISBN 1-874745-04-8