A rich collection of period--bandw--photos of the trains and the country they traversed to serve the logging industry and mining around Flagstaff. Extensive tex

In the days of the Wild West, Arizona needed trains to efficiently transport people and products. But building those routes was much tougher than it might seem.

Surveyors called the San Diego and Arizona Railway (SD&A) "The Impossible Railroad" because of its jagged, mountainous, and brutal desert route. The financier a