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Aguila: 1905: Originally Arizona and California Railway depot. Last Santa Fe service 1955. Moved to Scottsdale's McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park in 1972. Still standing. Ajo: TC&GB: 1916: Last mixed passenger service in 1984. Still standing. Ash Fork: ATSF: 1907: Escalante Harvey House and depot built 1907. Last passenger service 1969. Razed 1984.
McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park is a 30-acre (12 ha) railroad park located in Scottsdale, Arizona. It features a 15 in ( 381 mm ) gauge railroad, a Magma Arizona Railroad locomotive, a railroad museum, three model railroad clubs and a 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 in ( 190.5 mm ) gauge live steam railroad.
Aguila is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. It is located on U.S. Route 60 , 25 miles (40 km) west of Wickenburg and 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Wenden .
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The Arizona and California Railroad (reporting mark ARZC) is a class III short line railroad that was a subdivision of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (ATSF). The ARZC began operations on May 9, 1991, when David Parkinson of the ParkSierra RailGroup purchased the line from the Santa Fe Railway.
The railroad discontinued their passenger trains in 1970, leaving Oroville without rail services. The Chico Electric Railway had built an electric interurban railway line to the town with a route down High Street and its own depot two blocks west of the Western Pacific's. The final westbound California Zephyr in 1970
The depot was built by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road) in 1884, with porte-cochère added in 1919. It served passengers including resort patrons until the 1950s and freight until 1970. Currently, it serves as a museum. [3] [4]
The depot was designed as a combination passenger and freight station by C.F. Morse, Chief Engineer for the Santa Fe. It is an adaptation of the brick depot standard they called the "county-seat." The depot is a single-story structure and rectangular in shape, that measures 202 by 26 feet (61.6 by 7.9 m). [4]