Tucson, Arizona - The city's joint heritage and modern streetcar project (a form of Susan Pantell With Light Rail Now Project Team Phone Light Rail Streetcar Project Making Progress APTA - American Public Transportation Assn.APTA Streetcar and Heritage Trolley Site.Citizens for a Sensible Transportation Solution.The line forms a rough "L.Tucson's Light Rail Streetcar Project Making Progress - Light Rail Now It now reaches as far north as West Dunlap Avenue and North 19th Avenue in addition to running as far east as Gilbert Road and East Main Street in Tempe. Since then, the project has been greatly expanded. At the time of this writing in 2008, the line served Tempe, downtown Phoenix, and terminated to the north at 7th Avenue and Camelback Road. Its notable remaining segment was the Tucumcari-El Paso main line, which became SP's "Golden State Route," in conjunction with the Rock Island, to Chicago.įinally, Phoenix operates a light rail system known as the Valley Metro Light Rail. Through the 1960s much of the EP&SW was abandoned as either redundant or traffic (copper, coal, and timber) played out. In 1924 it became part of Southern Pacific. At its peak the EP&SW maintained over 1,200 route miles and linked Tucumcari, New Mexico with Benson, Arizona via Douglas, Hermanas (New Mexico), and El Paso (Texas). The one notable loss was much of the El Paso & Southwestern system. The state has been able to retain most of its original network thanks to the through lines which crisscross its borders, notably Southern Pacific's old Sunset and Golden State Routes along with Santa Fe's Transcon main line (Chicago-Los Angeles). Since 1920 Arizona has lost only about 600 miles of railroads much of this was removed between the 1920s and 1960s (400 miles). Also, the Sunset LimitedĪlong the UP stops at Benson, Tucson, Maricopa, and Yuma. Service is still available in the state with the Los Angeles-Chicago Southwest Chief along the BNSF Railway stopping at Winslow, Flagstaff, and Kingman. The line was disconnected from the national rail network and exclusively handled coal from the Black Mesa Mine to a power plant at Lake Powell.) The BM&LP was a 78-mile entirely electrified railroad that operated E60C electric locomotives on a 50,000-volt catenary system. Black Mesa & Lake Powell Railroad ( Closed in 2019.Magma Arizona Railroad (currently dormant but still on the books).In anyĮvent, the short table below lists its mileage rise and decline. Infrastructure, which actually is much less than other states. However, during the "Golden Age" of theĪs such, Arizona has lost about 28% of its rail In terms of overall mileage, currently Arizona ranks somewhat low at In any event, included here is a brief overview of the state's railroads, covering their history as well as present-day operations.Īdditionally, links to other pages here at the site covering related subjects are also featured. The state has also been able to sustain most of its rail network since transcontinental lines of the former Santa Fe (Chicago - Los Angeles) and Southern Pacific (Sunset Route from Los Angeles to Texas/Louisiana) remain in service. Today, while the state may be home to less than 2,000 route miles of railroad but it offers a little of everything from main line railroads (the West's two largest systems still operate important routes through Arizona) to railroad museums and tourist lines. Its lack of natural resources and major markets few classic lines ever operated there. Trains began in the latter half of the 19th century although because of That range from speeding loads of intermodal to slow drags of coal, Arizona railroads are known for flat deserts, high mountains, and trains
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