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This is a route-map template for the Verde Canyon Railroad, a United States heritage railroad.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
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.
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.
The tracks linked the copper smelter at Clarkdale and the copper mines at Jerome to the Santa Fe Railway tracks passing through Drake. 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 ...
Drake was a town in the early 1900s, which grew out of a railway work camp for construction of the very high "Big Hell Canyon Railroad Bridge", on high trestles, completed in 1901. It was first known as Cedar Glade, and had a population of 70 in 1909. It was renamed to "Drake" in 1920. [2]
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United Verde & Pacific Railway: 1894 1920 N/A Verde Tunnel and Smelter Railroad: 1912 1953 N/A Verde Valley Railway: ATSF: 1911 1942 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway: Western Arizona Railway: ATSF: 1906 1931 N/A Yuma Valley Railroad: SP: 1914