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The Grand Canyon Railway (reporting mark GCRX) is a heritage railroad which carries passengers between Williams, Arizona, and the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park. The 64-mile (103 km) railroad, built by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway , was completed on September 17, 1901.
The train is broken into two sections and the name is shortened to the Grand Canyon; the schedule is reduced to 48 hours, 45 minutes. July 1968: The Santa Fe discontinues all passenger service to the Grand Canyon National Park although the tracks are retained for freight service; the Grand Canyon train is stripped of its name becoming simply ...
The railway was restored, along with the stations at Williams and the Grand Canyon South Rim, and reopened as a separate company, independent of the Santa Fe. The first journey of the restored railroad was on September 17, 1989, exactly 88 years after the first train to the Canyon was run. [13]
Restoration work on the locomotive was subsequently completed, and No. 18 pulled the railway’s passenger trains between Williams, Arizona and the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, until 2002. In 2007, the locomotive was acquired by businessman Brian Fleming, who in turn sold it to the San Luis and Rio Grande Railroad (SLRG) in Colorado.
The collection and drop-off point was the Grand Canyon Railway Hotel adjacent to the refurbished Williams Depot, now the southern terminus of the Grand Canyon line. In 2017, the Grand Canyon Railway announced they would be discontinuing their shuttle that connected this station with their station and hotel in Williams, [13] forcing the station ...
Arizona Eastern Railroad: Grand Canyon Railway: ATSF: 1901 1942 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway: Johnson, Dragoon Mountain and Northern Railway: SP: 1907 1908 Johnson–Dragoon and Northern Railway: Johnson–Dragoon and Northern Railway: SP: 1908 1911 Southern Pacific Company: Magma Arizona Railroad: MAA 1914 1997 N/A Maricopa and ...