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The Yuma Valley Railway was a heritage railroad in Arizona, which formerly operated an excursion passenger train on the rail line following the Colorado River levee between Yuma and Gadsden. The railroad's train has not operated since 2005, when the line was embargoed by the Bureau of Reclamation. The equipment had been parked idle across the ...
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 Private ...
National Historic Landmark #NPS–05000968 — Virginia and Truckee Railway Motor Car 22; Operations. In May 2013, the railroad acquired a GE 44-ton switcher engine and three passenger cars from the defunct Yuma Valley Railway. The diesel has been given the number D-3. Visiting replica of Thomas the Tank Engine
The Southern Pacific Railroad Depot in Yuma, Arizona, was built as a Spanish Colonial Revival -style station by the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1926. [1] After Southern Pacific Railroad ceased passenger operations upon Amtrak 's start in 1971, the station housed the Yuma Fine Arts Museum. The depot was listed in the National Register of ...
4 ft 8. +. 1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Sunset Route is a main line of the Union Pacific Railroad running between Southern California and New Orleans, Louisiana. [1] The name traces its origins to the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway, a Southern Pacific Railroad subsidiary which was known as the Sunset Route as early as ...
The San Diego and Arizona Railway ( reporting mark SDA) was a 148-mile (238 km) short line U.S. railroad founded by entrepreneur John D. Spreckels, and dubbed "The Impossible Railroad" by engineers of its day due to the immense logistical challenges involved. It linked San Diego, its western terminus, with El Centro, its eastern terminus, where ...
Yuma Project. Coordinates: 32°49′39″N 114°30′0″W. Laguna Diversion Dam. The Yuma Project is a U.S. Bureau of Reclamation project built to irrigate over 68,000 acres (280 km 2) of land in Yuma County, Arizona and parts of Imperial County, California. The project is designed to exploit year-round farming conditions and water from the ...
Yuma station is an Amtrak station at 281 South Gila Street in Yuma, Arizona, United States. Passenger rail service is provided thrice-weekly in each direction by the Sunset Limited and the Texas Eagle over this portion of its route. The station's island platform, which is adjacent to the station building site, are accessible through a short ...