Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Tucson, AZ: SP/EP&SW Depot and Railyards, some with Roundhouses

EP&SW Roundhouse and SP South Yard: (Satellite)
Depot and RR Museum: (Satellite)
SP Roundhouse and Passenger Yard: (Satellite, Toole Ave was added after the roundhouse was removed.)
Freight Yard: (Satellite)

EP&SW = El Paso & Southwestern

Bab Chaparro posted
Former El Paso & Southwestern Railroad Roundhouse, Tucson, AZ
Photo from Google Earth.
This preserved structure now houses a building materials company’s wallboard storage area.
Traveling down the photo from the roundhouse to the lower left and beyond is the site of the EP&SW railyard. This area stretches for blocks, all the way down to the former EP&SW depot.
Bob Chaparro
Hemet, CA
Matt Stevens: Drive by it everyday. There’s a plaque on the wall that that it was EP&SW and later SP’s Tucson South Yard.
Roger Eyrich shared

Street View, Jan 2025

Michael Wolf, Mar 2020

I'm surprised that the EP&SW yard and roundhouse is not shown. The SP passenger yard now contains Hood Distribution and some big boxes around the new Tools Ave. The freight yard has more tracks today than it did in the 1950s, which is rare. Some of the additional tracks are used by R.J. Corman Railroad Services.
1957/58 Tucson Quad @ 24,000

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