RailsWest is all about laid back, easy railroading. The TC&GB must have been pretty relaxed railroading most of the time. In the early 1900s, the Phelps-Dodge Copper Company sought to connect their New Cornelia Copper Mine in Ajo (pronounced “AY-ho”) with smelters in Tuscon, AZ. Since Tucson was located on Southern Pacific’s Sunset Route, Phelps-DodgeContinue reading “The Tuscon, Cornelia and Gila Railroad”
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