ATSF Remnant line in a youtube video

ddm502001 Dec 1, 2017

  1. ddm502001

    ddm502001 TrainBoard Member

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    A kid was discussing and showing a defunct residential neighborhood and abandoned rail line off AZ90 outside Huachuca City AZ. Turned out to be the tail of the line the Copper Basin Rail Way(CBRW) uses to Winkelman AZ and the mines there.

    The line runs from there South to Naco MX at the MX border where a old 'Y' is present just across the border on the MX railroad system, the line then parallels east the border to Douglas AZ where the line then parallels highways and the MX border all the way to El Paso. Noted as once ATSF, SP until the merger declines closed it down.

    Bridges mostly concrete still present, most of the old roadbed just sits alone until NM 9 rides the line into the TX border.
     
  2. ddm502001

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    I stand corrected as I researched a bit deeper. Was the El Paso and Southwestern which was bought up by SP and eventually abandoned.
     

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