This is the second in a two-part series on the railroad’s impact on mining in Arizona. Read the first part at http://tinyurl.com/arizonarailroads online. Created in ...

This is the first in a two-part series on railroading and its effect on mining in Arizona. Railroad transportation proved indispensable to the development of the mining industry in Arizona, connecting ...

Freight train derailments are down in Arizona and across the country. Arizona experienced 14 fewer train derailments and collisions in 2007, compared with 2006. The 39 percent decline in accidents in ...

During their heyday, railroads transported people, mining materials, commercial goods and military supplies. An annual event at the Arizona Railway Museum gives a glimpse into the past with ...

The thought of a 10,000-ton train going through northern Arizona with no conductor aboard has some railroad workers worried about what autonomous trains might mean for safety of pedestrians and those ...