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The tracks on which the Verde Canyon Railroad runs were opened in 1912 as part of a north–south branch line linking a copper smelter at Clarkdale and the copper mines at Jerome to Santa Fe Railway tracks passing through Drake. The Santa Fe Railway owned and operated the 38-mile (61 km) branch line from 1912 to 1988.
The Verde Canyon Railroad is a passenger excursion heritage railroad which runs between Clarkdale and Perkinsville. Both engines of the Verde Canyon Railroad are FP7 locomotives whose numbers are #1510 and #1512. They were built in 1953 in LaGrange, Illinois by the General Motors' Electro Motive Division.
On December 31, 1942, the Verde Valley was conveyed to the Santa Fe Railway by deed. On April 14, 1989, the Santa Fe Railway sold the Clarkdale branch to David L. Durbano. The new railroads were named the Clarkdale Arizona Central Railroad for freight and the Verde Canyon Railroad for passenger service. Passenger service resumed in November 1990.
Verde Canyon Railroad tourist train service returned in November 1990; new depot built in 1996 by the Durbano family. Clifton: SPRR: 1913: Built by Arizona and New Mexico Railway. Last Southern Pacific mixed passenger service 1967. Still standing. Replica of this depot built in late 1990s at Scottsdale's McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park ...
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Arizona Narrow Gauge Railroad: 1882 1887 Tucson, Globe and Northern Railroad: Arizona and New Mexico Railway: SP: 1883 1935 El Paso and Southwestern Railroad: Arizona and South Eastern Railroad: SP: 1888 1902 El Paso and Southwestern Railroad: Arizona Southern Railroad: AZS 1904 1933 N/A Arizona and Swansea Railroad: 1909 1931 N/A Atchison ...
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