Tempe, AZ

The Tempe depot now houses Macayo's Depot Cantina, a renowned Mexican restaurant. The Sunset Limited and Texas Eagle served this location between 1987 and 1995.

The ARPA installed its Adopt-A-Depot sign at the Tempe station on July 16, 1993; it is presently covered with a "discontinued" notice.

Feature Articles

• Ride the Last Train To Tempe
• Tempe Transportation Possibilities: Light Rail and Regional Rail
• Tempe Service Inauguration, 1987.

Photos

Olympic Torch Train crosses Tempe Town Lake, 13 January 2002 The TALGO crossing Tempe Town Lake, 5 May 2000 Tempe Depot from the Southwest Sunset Limited stops at Tempe, 4 October 1995. Amtrak's Sunset Limited crossing the Salt River Bridge, about to stop at the Tempe Depot Tempe Junction, with welded rail project underway, September 1999, looking South

Aerial Photos

The Tempe depot is close to Downtown Tempe, the Grady Gammage Auditorium, and Arizona State University The "Creamery Branch" of the UPRR runs right past Sun Devil Stadium, and is perfectly suited for special trains to stop (there's already a paved platform). This is one of the proposed alignments of the light rail system.

Special Trains

• 1996: Superbowl train
• 1995: Fiesta Bowl train; from the rear (showing the Creamery Branch and the Office Park cabooses); and from the side (dome car "Walter Dean")
• 1993: ICE Train Visits Arizona

Maps

• Lycos map of Tempe Depot vicinity

Links

• City of Tempe
• Arizona Guide -- Tempe, Arizona
• Yahoo's Tempe links.

Other Historic Buildings

A two-volume book chronicling Tempe's buildings 50 years and older may be obtained by calling the city at 602/350-8587. (Source: Arizona Republic, 13 May 1998, page EV3)

• Arizona's Rail Stations
• ARPA Home Page