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Railroads of Arizona (2002) Includes Abandoned Lines & Historical Line Surveys Railroads of Arizona (2002) Includes Abandoned Lines & Historical Line Surveys Black Mesa Mine Loadout Mead Lake Las Vegas Generating Black Mesa Mine Station Boulder City P&M Mine Searchlight Peach Springs Chloride Seligman Darling / Winona Ash Fork Coronado Jct. Camp Navajo Clarkdale Proposed Fence Lake Mine Skull Extension Lake Mary Valley SRP/BNSF (2005) Mayer Snowflake Poland Coronado Rice Tepco 1910-1915 Mogollon Rim Congress Crown King Prescott & Phoenix Swansea Shortline Railroad / SPRR Survey McNary Springerville 1895-1905 Black Canyon Arizona Mineral City Belt Railroad White Mountain Survey Scenic Railroad Aguila Roosevelt Lake 1964-1976 Glendale Blythe Palo Verde NGS Inspiration Mine Mesa Ripley Buckeye Superior Globe Ray Mine 1920-1923 Out Of Service Southern Pacific Hayden Morenci Mine Since 1997 Survey 1880 Maricopa Coolidge Southern Pacific Roll Survey Duncan 1905 – 1915 EP&SW Survey 1880 San Southern Manuel Pacific Survey Bowie New Cornelia Mine Patagonia (ROCKY POINT) Bisbee 2002 Naco Map by Marc Pearsall – 2002 – Use Permission Granted Railroads of Arizona (2002) LEGEND: Includes Abandoned Lines & Historical Line Surveys Compiled by Marc Pearsall ± 2002 - Use Permission Granted Union Pacific Railroad Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Arizona & California Railroad (Rail America Corp) Arizona Eastern Railroad (Rail America Corp) Grand Canyon Railway San Pedro & Southwestern Railroad (Rail America Corp) Copper Basin Railway (Rail Management Corp) Black Mesa & Lake Powell Railroad (Navajo Nation / Salt River Project) Apache Railway (Abitibi International) Verde Canyon Railroad / Clarkdale Arizona Central Railroad P helps Dodge Morenci - Mining Railroad Yuma Valley Railway United States Army – Camp Navajo Munitions Depot Tucson, Cornelia & Gila Bend Railroad(Phelps Dodge-Ajo)(Out of Service Since 1997) Magma Arizona (Broken Hill Proprietary-Superior)(Out of Service since 1998) San Manuel Arizona (Broken Hill Proprietary-San Manuel)(Out of Service since 1999) Boulder City Southern (Nevada State Railroad Museum- Boulder City to Railroad Pass) Ferrocarril Mexicano – Sonora y Baja California Ferrocarril Mexicano – Sonora Norte subsidiary Out Of Service Union Pacific Railroad Abandoned Southern Pacific Railroad Abandoned Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Abandoned Union Pacific Railroad Abandoned Prescott & Arizona Central Railroad Abandoned Southwest Forest Industries / Timber-Lumber Railroads / WMSRR Abandoned Apache Railway / White Mountain Scenic Railroad Abandoned San Pedro & Southwestern Railroad Abandoned United Verde & Pacific Railroad (narrow gauge) Abandoned Morenci Southern Railway (narrow gauge) Southern Pacific Railroad – various surveys 1880-1923 Prescott & Phoenix Shortline Railroad / SPRR – survey 1910-1915 Arizona Mineral Belt Railroad – survey 1895-1905 El Paso & Southwestern Railroad – Tucson-Florence survey 1905-1915 .
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