Railroads in Arizona

Railway:	Location:	Operates:	Information / Reservations:
Apache Railway	Snowflake, AZ		Abitibi Consolidated Corp. Canadian owned papermill-lumber hauler
Arizona & California Railroad	Parker AZ westward	Freight Service	See article, RailNews, April 1998, page 76.
Arizona Central Railroad	Clarkdale, AZ		Subsidiary freight carrier for Verde Canyon Railroad (see below)
Arizona Eastern	Claypool, AZ (Globe - Bowie)	Freight Service *** 2005: Brill railcar service planned between Globe and the Apache Gold casino. See http://www.copperspike.com/
BNSF (AT&SF)	Northern AZ	Freight Service
Copper Basin	Hayden, AZ	Freight Service	Railway Age names 1994 Railroader of the Year
Grand Canyon Railway	Williams - Grand Canyon	Steam and Diesel Excursions	1-800-THE-TRAIN
Morenci Industrial Mining Railroad (Phelps Dodge)	Morenci, AZ		http://www.phelpsdodge.com/ (search keyword: Morenci)
Old Pueblo Trolley	Tucson	Streetcar	520/792-1802
San Pedro & Southwestern	Benson - Charleston	Diesel Excursions (suspended)	520/586-2266 Website: StatesRail
San Diego & Arizona Eastern			History of the San Diego & Arizona Eastern
Union Pacific (SP)	Southern AZ	Freight Service	Official UPRR website
Verde Canyon Railway	Clarkdale - Perkinsville	Diesel Excursions	1-800-293-7245
Yuma Valley Railway	Yuma	Diesel Excursions (on weekends during the winter and spring) from Yuma to Gadsden.	520/783-3456 P.O. Box 10305 Yuma, AZ 85366-8305 Official website

Inactive/Abandoned

Railroad:	Location:	Information:	Photos/Links
Magma Arizona Railroad	Superior, AZ	Suspended Operations 1997	Broken Hill Proprietary Mining (Melbourne, Australia)
San Manuel Arizona Railroad	San Manuel, AZ	Suspended Operations 1998	Broken Hill Proprietary Mining (Melbourne, Australia)
Tucson, Cornelia, and Gila Bend Railroad	Ajo, AZ	Suspended Operations 1984. Econorail reopened the line 1995-1998 for Ajo smelter removal.	http://www.phelpsdodge.com/ (search keyword: Ajo)
White Mountain Scenic Railroad	McNary, AZ	Steam-tourist railroad operated on White Mountain Apache tribal land from 1964-1976, track removed from Snowflake-McNary-Big Lake-Maverick in 1982, roadbed is now a tribal trail.	Operated by Southwest Forest Industries. Links: http://www.wmonline.com/attract/trails/overview.htm; http://www.wmatoutdoors.com/wmatmap.shtml.

More Trains and Stations

Arizona's Trains
Arizona's Rail Stations
Web Union Station's Arizona Rail Attractions
ARIZONA HIGHWAYS magazine: Rail Events Calendar
Ted Ellis's "Desert Rails" photo collection (on his unofficial Algoma Central page)
TRAINS magazine on the Sierra Madre Express Copper Canyon train
Daniel Chazin on the Dallas TRE - See what it's like to ride a modern commuter rail system

Museums, Railroad Parks and Other Attractions

CHANDLER. Arizona Railway Museum. 399 N. Delaware St., Chandler AZ. Open Noon to 4pm Saturday and Sunday. Phone 602/821-1108. The Arizona Railway Museum supplied the trainset for our 1997 Awards Dinner.
PHOENIX. Original Phoenix Street Railway and related information
SCOTTSDALE. Scottsdale McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park has a full scale replica of the Clifton, Arizona station.

Arizona Attractions

ARPA's list of links
There are at least two dozen Arizona Railroad Attractions listed on the The North American Tourist Railroad & Railroad Museum List.

Other Arizona Railroads

Arizona & California. See article, RailNews, April 1998, page 76.
Copper Basin: Railway Age names 1994 Railroader of the Year
History of the San Diego & Arizona Eastern

Maps