List of passenger train stations in Arizona explained

Historic and existing passenger train stations in Arizona, United States.

Station Railway Built class=unsortableNotes
1905 Originally Arizona and California Railway depot. Last Santa Fe service 1955. Moved to Scottsdale's McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park in 1972. Still standing.
1916 Last mixed passenger service in 1984. Still standing.
1907 Escalante Harvey House and depot built 1907. Last passenger service 1969. Razed 1984. Freight station still stands as Burlington Northern Santa Fe maintenance-of-way crewhouse.
1880 Last passenger service 1971. Razed 1970s. Replica of depot building constructed on this location in early 2000s for Chamber of Commerce. Amtrak's Sunset Limited and Texas Eagle stop at a shed nearby.
Portable-module structure located one mile south of downtown. Current offices of the San Pedro and Southwestern Railroad, a 7adj=midNaNadj=mid freight railroad. Passenger facilities were located at depot from 1995 to 2000, when previous San Pedro and Southwestern Railway-owned railroad offered Grey Hawk passenger excursions from Benson-Charleston along the San Pedro River. Depot office Still standing.
Bowie[1]
Buckeye[2]
1879 New depot built 1924. Last passenger service 1960s. Destroyed in a fire in 2009.
1911 Last passenger service 1964. Razed 1970s. The Arizona Railway Museum built a similar building nearby as its headquarters.
1912 Built by Verde Valley Railway. Last Santa Fe mixed passenger service 1955. Depot destroyed in a fire 1970s. Verde Canyon Railroad tourist train service returned in November 1990; new depot built in 1996 by the Durbano family.
1913 Built by Arizona and New Mexico Railway. Last Southern Pacific mixed passenger service 1967. Still standing. Replica of this depot built in late 1990s at Scottsdale's McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park.
1905 Moved to 1825 West Dragoon Road within the town limits of Cochise and is now the Cochise Marijuana Dispensary.
1925 Closed 1973, razed later in the 1970s. Last Amtrak passenger service at nearby shed, 1996.
Dome
1913 Built by El Paso and Southwestern Railroad. Last Southern Pacific passenger service 1963. The San Pedro and Southwestern Railroad briefly used the depot from 1992 to 1995 for a crew terminal, prior to abandonment of their Paul Spur-Douglas trackage. Still stands as City of Douglas Police Department.
Dragoon
1901 Name changed from Cedar Glade, 1920. Last passenger services 1955 and 1969. Depot moved to Prescott in 1970s and is now a gift shop adjacent to Hillside Station on Iron Southern Pacificrings Road.
Eloy
Estrella
1889 Built by Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. Restored 1999 as a new office. Santa Fe depot built 1926, last Santa Fe passenger service 1971. Currently served by Amtrak's Southwest Chief. Both still stand.
Florence
Fortuna
Fort Thomas
1915 Last Southern Pacific passenger service 1960s. Last Tucson, Cornelia and Gila Bend Railroad mixed passenger service 1984. Depot razed 1970s.
Gilbert
1895 Original depot built by Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Railway. Closed 1961. New depot built 1959. Last Santa Fe passenger service 1969. Still standing.
1916 Built by Arizona Eastern Railway. Last passenger service 1953. Still standing. Was served by Arizona Eastern Railway's Copper Spike excursion motorcar in 2006.
1904 Built by Santa Fe and Grand Canyon Railroad. Last Santa Fe passenger service July 1968. Restored by National Park Service, 1987. Excursion service began September 1989 by Grand Canyon Railway.
1905 El Tovar Harvey House. Designed by Santa Fe Railway architect Charles Whittlesey. Still standing. Currently owned by National Park Service and operated by Xanterra.
1935 Bright Angel Lodge. Designed by renowned architect Elizabeth Jane Colter (Mary E. J. Colter). Still standing. Currently owned by National Park Service and operated by Xanterra.
Hayden
1902 Last passenger service 1969. Depot moved to Prescott 1970s, now a restaurant adjacent to Drake Station gift shop in Iron Southern Pacificrings Road.
1892 Built by Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. Enlarged 1907, 1912. Last Santa Fe passenger service 1971. Still standing. Restored in 2006.
1926 Opened as Agua. Last passenger service 1944. Razed in 1950s. Site of still-unsolved 1995 derailment of Amtrak's Sunset Limited.
data-sort-value="1919"c. 1919 Passenger service consisted of intermittent traffic via rail bus. Entire railroad abandoned in 1953. Depot still stands on Phelps Dodge property in a fenced-in area at the Jerome Open Pit. Current Photo #1
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1907 Last Santa Fe passenger service 1971. Currently served by Amtrak's Southwest Chief. Restored in 2007.
1901 Harvey House. Renovated for use by soldiers training at Kingman Airfield in 1942. A fire destroyed all interiors in 1952, and it was razed a year later.
1926 Built to serve the communities of Goodyear, Avondale and Litchfield Park. Last passenger service unknown. Still stands, vacant on property near tracks in Avondale.
1879 The earliest depot was a two-story wooden building with deep eaves and prominent brick chimneys. Later razed, it was replaced in the 1930s by a small clapboard depot that was moved to Scottsdale's McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park in 2004. Amtrak has stopped at a new portable structure nearby since late 1990s.
1931 Last passenger service 1971. The 1980 "Hattie B" flood relief train served this station. Burned, January 1989.
Mescal
1920s Built by Arizona Eastern Railway. Last Southern Pacific mixed passenger service, 1953. Still standing.
1914 Last mixed passenger service, 1951. Razed, 1963 for an enlarged border crossing.
1907 Built by Arizona and California Railroad. Last Santa Fe passenger service 1955. Still in use by Arizona and California Railroad as a company office.
1900 Built by New Mexico & Arizona Railroad. Last Southern Pacific passenger service 1962. Still standing. Restored in 1990s and 2000s.
1895 Built by Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Railway. Last Santa Fe passenger service 1969. Moved to Scottsdale's McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park, 1972. Still standing.
1912 Built by Verde Valley Railroad. Last Santa Fe mixed passenger service, 1955. Verde Canyon Railroad passenger service returned adjacent to depot in November 1990. Privately owned by Perkins Family Ranch. Still standing.
1923 Last Santa Fe passenger service, April 1969. Last Southern Pacific service May 1971. Last Amtrak service, June 1996. Still standing. Restored in 1990s and 2000s; currently owned by a telecommunications company.
Phoenix 1895 Closed 1923.
Phoenix data-sort-value=1910early 1910s Second depot. Closed 1950s.
Phoenix AZER/M&P 1800s? Closed 1950s.
1907 Built by Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Railway. Last Santa Fe passenger service April 1962. Still standing.
Picacho
Pima
Ray Junction
1917 Built to Two-Story Combination Depot No. 22 plan by Southern Pacific. Last passenger service unknown. Still stands as residence near tracks in community of Red Rock, northwest Tucson.[3]
Last passenger service unknown. Still stands vacant adjacent to tracks in northwest Tucson.
1928 Last Southern Pacific passenger service 1953. Still standing.
1905 Built by Arizona and California Railroad. Last Santa Fe passenger service 1955. Removed by October 2021.
San Simon
1897 El Havasu Harvey House. Built by Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. Last Santa Fe passenger service 1971. Last Amtrak service 1984. Demolished, 2008.
Sentinel
Steins
Stockham
1895 Moved from Cherry Creek, 1926. Last passenger service, April 1969. Currently used as town museum.
1923 Last mixed passenger service 1940. Razed by BHP-Billiton and Resolution Copper Company in early 2000s.
1924 Last Amtrak service, June 1996. Still stands; used as Macayo's Depot Cantina restaurant. Valley Metro Rail station located one block east of depot.
1882 Built by El Paso and Southwestern Railroad. Last Southern Pacific passenger service, August 1960. Still standing.
1907 Remodeled 1942. Current Amtrak service. Restored in early 2000s, now features restaurants, shops and Southern Arizona Transportation Museum.
Tucson 1913 Last passenger service 1960s. Still stands; was used as a restaurant. Vacant in 2007.
Wellton
1895 Built by Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Railway. Last Santa Fe passenger service April 1969. Still stands; used as Wickenburg Chamber of Commerce.
1914 Last passenger service 1971. Restored by city, 1999.
1885 Last passenger service 1908. Still stands; used as Williams Chamber of Commerce since 1994.
1908 Last passenger service December 1960. Still stands; used by Grand Canyon Railway as their terminal since 1989. Owned and operated by Xanterra since 2007.
Williams 1908 Fray Marcos Harvey House. Last hotel patrons in 1954. Purchased and restored in 1989 by Biegert Family. Still stands; used by Grand Canyon Railway as their gift shop, offices, dispatching, commissary and storage since 1989. Modern Grand Canyon Railway Hotel opened in 1995 to the north of 1908 structure. Owned and operated by Xanterra since 2007.
1960 Last passenger service April 1969. Razed 1984. Platform rebuilt 1999 for restored Amtrak Southwest Chief service and connecting bus shuttle to Williams Grand Canyon Railway depot.
1930 Last Santa Fe passenger service 1971. Currently served by Amtrak.
Winslow 1929 La Posada Harvey House. Designed by renowned architect Elizabeth Jane Colter (Mary E. J. Colter). Last hotel patrons in 1957. Still standing. Housed Santa Fe dispatching offices until spring 1995. Purchased and restored in 1997 by the Affeldt/Mion familyand converted to a hotel. Served by Amtrak and U.S. Route 66.
1926 Housed the Yuma Fine Arts Museum after 1971. Burned 1995. Current Amtrak services at nearby platform.

Gallery

Images of some of the remaining railroad stations in Arizona.

Sources

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Tucson Division Stations.
  2. Web site: Tucson Division Stations.
  3. Book: Bender, Henry E. Jr.. Southern Pacific Lines Standard-Design Depots. Signature Press. 2013. 978-1-930013-33-9. Berkeley and Wilton, California. 134, 146.