Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The El Paso and Southwestern Railroad began in 1888 as the Arizona and South Eastern Railroad, a short line serving copper mines in southern Arizona. Over the next few decades, it grew into a 1200-mile system that stretched from Tucumcari, New Mexico, southward to El Paso, Texas, and westward to Tucson, Arizona, with several branch lines, including one to Nacozari, Mexico.
The former EP&SW between Douglas and El Paso was abandoned in 1961 and the tracks removed in 1963. Rock Island had many feeder lines used for freight and passenger service to southern California. One of these was the ‘Choctaw Route’ from Memphis through Little Rock, Oklahoma City and Amarillo to Tucumcari, New Mexico. This line was ...
The line became part of the Phelps Dodge El Paso and Southwestern Railroad in 1905 and was leased by Southern Pacific Railroad in 1924. Summer excursions from El Paso were discontinued in 1930 and passenger and mail service ended in 1938. Freight service ended in 1947 [2] and the line was dismantled through the summer of 1948, one half century ...
The El Paso and Northeastern Railway (EP&NE) was a short line railroad that was built around the beginning of the twentieth century to help connect the industrial and commercial center at El Paso, Texas, with physical resources and the United States' national transportation hub in Chicago.
An abandoned railroad is a railway line which is no longer used for that purpose. Such lines may be disused railways, closed railways, former railway lines, or derelict railway lines. Some have had all their track and sleepers removed, and others have material remaining from their former usage. There are many hundreds of these throughout the ...
On June 17, 1902, the Arizona & Southeastern was sold to the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad (EP&SW) and the line was extended through Douglas to El Paso. On November 1, 1924, the EP&SW was leased to the Southern Pacific. In 1955 the EP&SW was merged into the SP.
3420 (C-19, 2-8-0), owned by El Paso Historic Board, stored at Phelps Dodge copper refinery, El Paso, Texas; 3709 , being restored to operation at Pacific Southwest Railway Museum in Campo, California; 3769 , On display and used as a switch engine for the Utah State Railroad Museum in Ogden, Utah.
San Francisco and Oakland Railroad; San Joaquin Valley and Yosemite Railroad; San Pedro via Dominguez Line; San Pedro via Gardena Line; Santa Ana Line; Santa Ana–Huntington Beach Line; Santa Ana–Orange Line; Santa Monica Air Line; Sawtelle Line; Schuylkill Branch; Shorb Line; Sierra Madre Line; Sierra Vista Line; Silverton, Gladstone and ...