sold out - out of print
El Paso and Southwestern Railroad System
By Vernon J Glover.
Cloth with dust jacket, 11" x 8 ½" landscape format, 216 pages, 330+ photos / maps / diagrams. 2021.
"In the late 1800s and early 1900s, copper was a growth industry in the nation. The rapid growth of copper production and the surrounding towns in southeastern Arizona made clear that wagon freight from main line railheads was no longer sufficient - there was a need for more direct rail connections to the east.
"Discussions with the Southern Pacific led to building the independent El Paso & Southwestern Railroad to El Paso, Texas - financed entirely from cash reserves of the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Company. In the meantime, the El Paso & Northeastern was building northward from El Paso, up through the Territory of New Mexico, creating new towns as it went along. In 1905, the two railroads were joined and their operations merged as rapidly as possible.
"The EP&SW story is told in three parts:
