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Thanks to the Scottsdale Railroad and Mechanical Society, the Magma Copper Co. steam locomotive was moved to the McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park in 1977. It cost about $7500, which was about the same price Magma paid the El Paso & South-Western Railroad (EP & SW) for the engine in 1922. This engine was constructed by Baldwin Locomotive Works (No. 31880) in October 1907 as the Arizona & New Mexico Railway #26. It was transferred to the El Paso & South-Western Railroad as their #130 when that railroad absorbed the A&NM. It was then sold to the Magma Arizona Railroad as their #6 on December 11, 1922. It hauled copper from the mine at Superior to the southern Pacific interchange at Magma for 38 years.
DATE: December 28, 1977
The Santa Fe Railroad built a depot in Wendon, Arizona for the Arizona and California Railway. The depot was moved to Congress, Arizona in 1936, and finally to Aguila, Arizona (approximately in 1964). The depot also housed Aguila’s telegraph office. The Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway company had closed the Aguila Depot effective August 4, 1969; in 1977 it was purchased by the Scottsdale Railroad and Mechanical Society and moved by truck to the railroad park.
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