Very good Arizona site

[TrainNut]

Hey all. I've been searching high and low for anything I can find on the old Apache Railway company between McNary and the old logging camp of Maverick. I have found bits and pieces here and there but along the way, I came across this site...
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Really neat stuff for you Arizonans and maybe for those non Arizonans as well!

[cn nutbar]

Hi Trainnut---My wife and I have vacationed in Arizona,it's a beautiful state---here's a couple of shots taken at Flagstaff many years ago---maybe it's time to visit again

[nachoman]

Hey all. I've been searching high and low for anything I can find on the old Apache Railway company between McNary and the old logging camp of Maverick. I have found bits and pieces here and there but along the way, I came across this site...
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Really neat stuff for you Arizonans and maybe for those non Arizonans as well!

Thos photos of the arizona rail lines are quite useful. What information do you need about the Apache? I remember seeing a book about flagstaff area logging railroads once. I am not sure if Myrick's "railroads of Arizona" covers taht line or not.

[TrainNut]

Sorry Nacho, somehow I missed your response in here. There is nothing I "need" to know about the line, just a craving for the history of it... pictures, etc. My family vacations up at Big Lake every summer and I always end up wandering the old roadbed looking for any memorabilia left behind and wondering what it was like when the trains were still running. This year, we hiked up to where the line crossed over the Little Colorado. I always fantasized that there was a big curved trestle going across there but I've found a picture with diesels that shows it was just fill and a couple of culverts. Still, it could have been a trestle in the steam days... who knows? One of the employees at the lake store actually knew quite a bit about it and he told me that there was an old log skidder in RR cove. That's why there's no trees left around Big Lake 'cause they cut 'em all down, drug 'em down to the lake, floated 'em across and loaded 'em over at RR cove. I'll have to go look for that book you mentioned. So far, all I've found is a sentence here and a discreet mention there... so to speak.

[eightyeightfan1]

This is quickly becoming a "Very Good Arizona" site.

My father lives in Arizona. Apache Junction to be exact.
But back in the early 1990's, my parents lived in Glendale(right down the street from Santa Fe's Glendale yard), they took us to the Grand Canyon, but not without a stop in Parker.(Dad's a railfan also)
Thought I'd throw in a pic from Arizona.


Taken at Parker, 1991.
   

[nachoman]

Trainnut - Google "white mountain scenic railroad arizona" and you should come up with a few pictures, and a little info. There was a steam excursion that ran on Apache tracks from McNary to Big Lake from the mid 60s to the mid 70s. From what I read, the scenic train did not own the line, and when some track damage occured near Big Lake, Apache railway abandoned the end of the line and they shortened the ride. I think the sawmill closed at McNary in the mid 70s, dooming the Scenic train.

There is a locomotive roster in the back of Myrick's "Railroads of Arizona" volume 3, and volume 4 covers the Santa Fe line, and may cover branches and shortlines that connect to the Santa Fe. You can probably find the right of way on USGS topo quads.