Arizona & Pacific Railroad

Photo Tour

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Photos of the Arizona & Pacific

          The route the A & P RR travels is across a piece of property which receives "irrigation" every two weeks for its numerous fruit trees. Water from a series of canals floods the property twelve inches deep at those times. The track is laid two feet above the rest of the property on an elevated roadbed constructed with a thousand feet of block retaining walls, hundreds of tons of rock backfill and a twelve foot trestle across the irrigation head. Crushed granite ballast, treated 4 x 4 ties and 12 lb. rail comprise the balance of the roadbed and track.

Future site of the A&P RR Right of Way		Future site of the train shed
The first of many loads of gravel for the roadbed and ballast		The train shed and another load of gravel
The Roadbed after a lot of leveling and raking		The first ties are roughed into place