Railway clerks don't have much to do these days, but they can't be laid off either, so the SP has a solution: keep them constantly on call but doing nothing, and maybe they'll go crazy and quit. Shooting them would be more merciful

Caboose on the Phoenix-Buckeye freight run

Brief summary of railroad developments particularly in the Phoenix area

The story of C. W. McCorkle and his run as conductor between Tucson and Yuma

In 1885 Congress invalidated the grants made the Texas and Pacific in Arizona and New Mexico which Huntington had acquired in a settlement with Jay Gould in 1881