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Arizona Arizona is a U.S. state, state in the Southwestern United States, Southwestern region of the United States, sharing the Four Corners region of the western United States with Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. It also borders Nevada to the nort ...

Class I Railroads

BNSF Railway BNSF Railway is the largest freight railroad in the United States. One of six North American Class I railroads, BNSF has 36,000 employees, of track in 28 states, and over 8,000 locomotives. It has three Transcontinental railroad, transcontine ...

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Union Pacific Railroad The Union Pacific Railroad is a Railroad classes, Class I freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Pacific is the second largest railroad in the United Stat ...

(UP)

Shortline and Terminal Railroads

Apache Railway The Apache Railway is an Arizona short-line railroad that operates from a connection with the BNSF Railway at Holbrook to the Snowflake Mill near Snowflake, Arizona, . The APA was acquired by Catalyst Paper from Abitibi Consolidated in 20 ...

(APA) *

Arizona and California Railroad The Arizona and California Railroad 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 purchas ...

(ARZC) *

Arizona Central Railroad The Clarkdale Arizona Central Railroad is an Arizona short-line railroad that operates from a connection with the BNSF Railway's Phoenix Subdivision at Drake, Arizona. The Drake Switching Company also operates a connection between the BNSF and ...

(AZCR) *

Arizona Eastern Railway The Arizona Eastern Railway is a Class III railroad that operates of railroad between Clifton, Arizona, and Miami, Arizona, in the United States. This includes trackage rights over the Union Pacific Railroad between Lordsburg, New Mexico, and ...

(AZER) *

Copper Basin Railway The Copper Basin Railway is an List of Arizona railroads, Arizona short-line railroad that operates from a connection with the Union Pacific Railroad (UP) at Magma to Winkelman, Arizona, Winkelman, in of length. The railroad also has a branch ...

(CBRY) * Port of Tucson Railroad (POT) * Kingman Terminal Railroad (KGTR) * San Manuel Arizona Railroad (SMA) *

San Pedro Valley Railroad The San Pedro Valley Railroad , formerly the San Pedro & Southwestern Railroad, is an Arizona shortline railroad, currently operating from a connection with the Union Pacific Railroad The Union Pacific Railroad is a Railroad classes, Cl ...

(SPVR)

Passenger Railroads

Amtrak The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Trade name, doing business as Amtrak (; ), is the national Passenger train, passenger railroad company of the United States. It operates intercity rail service in 46 of the 48 contiguous United Stat ...

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Southwest Chief The ''Southwest Chief'' (formerly the ''Southwest Limited'' and ''Super Chief'') is a Amtrak Long Distance, long-distance passenger train operated by Amtrak on a route between Chicago and Los Angeles through the Midwest and American Southwest ...

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Sunset Limited The ''Sunset Limited'' is a long-distance passenger train run by Amtrak, operating on a route between New Orleans and Los Angeles. Major stops include Houston, San Antonio and El Paso in Texas, as well as Tucson, Arizona. Opening in 1894 thr ...

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Texas Eagle The ''Texas Eagle'' is a long-distance passenger train operated daily by Amtrak on a route between Chicago, Illinois, and San Antonio, Texas, with major stops in St. Louis, Little Rock, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Austin. Three days per week, t ...

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Valley Metro Rail Valley Metro Rail is a light rail system serving the Phoenix metropolitan area in Arizona, USA. The network, which is part of the Valley Metro public transit system, began operations on December 27, 2008. In , the system had a ridership of , ...

Tempe Streetcar The Valley Metro Streetcar (S Line) known as the Tempe Streetcar during planning, is a modern streetcar in Tempe, Arizona, operated by Valley Metro. The line serves downtown Tempe, Tempe Town Lake, and the Arizona State University Tempe campu ...

Sun Link Sun Link, also known as the Tucson Streetcar, is a single-line streetcar system in Tucson, Arizona, United States, that began service in July 2014. The system's route connects the Arizona Health Sciences Center (including University Medical ...

Old Pueblo Trolley Old Pueblo Trolley is a non-profit, educational corporation based in Tucson, Arizona, Tucson, in the U.S. state of Arizona, that is dedicated to the preservation of Arizona's mass transit history. The name also commonly refers to the heritage str ...

Heritage and Scenic Railroads

Grand Canyon Railway The Grand Canyon Railway is a heritage railroad which carries passengers between Williams, Arizona, and the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park. The railroad, built by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, was completed on September ...

(GCRY) *

Verde Canyon Railroad The Verde Canyon Railroad is a heritage railroad running between Clarkdale, Arizona, Clarkdale and Perkinsville, Arizona, Perkinsville in the U.S. state of Arizona. The passenger excursion line operates on of tracks of the Clarkdale Arizona ...

Industrial Rail Operations

* Camp Navajo Railroad * Drake Switching Company * Freeport McMoRan Railroad

Defunct railroads

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* Apache Lumber Company * Arizona Lumber and Timber Company * Cady Lumber Company * Congress Gold Company *

Coronado Railroad Coronado Railroad was a gauge railroad which operated in a copper mining region of eastern Arizona. The Coronado Railroad was the first narrow gauge railroad in Arizona, constructed by Henry Lesinsky in 1879 along Chase Creek, between mines a ...

* Flagstaff Lumber Manufacturing Company * Helvetia Copper Company *

Kennecott Copper Corporation Kennicott or Kennecott may refer to: * Kennecott, Alaska Kennecott, also known as Kennicott and Kennecott Mines, is an abandoned mining camp in the Copper River Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska that was the center of activity for seve ...

* Morenci Industrial Railway * Saginaw and Manistee Lumber Company * Six Companies, Inc. * Southwest Forest Industries * Southwest Lumber Mills, Inc. * Tombstone and Southern Railroad ;Passenger carriers * White Mountain Scenic Railroad * Yuma Valley Railway ;Electric * Douglas Street Railway * Douglas Traction and Light Company * Phoenix Railway * Phoenix Railway of Arizona *

Phoenix Street Railway The Phoenix Street Railway provided streetcar service in Phoenix, Arizona, United States, from 1888 to 1948. The motto was "Ride a Mile and Smile the While." History The line was founded in 1887 by Moses Hazeltine Sherman and used horse-dra ...

* Prescott and Mount Union Railway * Tucson Rapid Transit Company * Tucson Street Railway * Warren Company * Warren–Bisbee Railway

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Railroads Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of land transport, next to road ...