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What can you tell me about Canyon Diablo, Arizona?

by | Jan 31, 2010 | Inside History

What can you tell me about Canyon Diablo, Arizona? Cindy Smith Cartersville, Georgia When the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad was building a transcontinental line along the 35th Parallel during the early 1880s, the railroad had to construct a bridge across Canyon Diablo, east of Flagstaff. (Running into financial difficulties, the A&P would be taken over by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, which completed the bridge in 1882.) During the time of bridge construction an end-of-track town Cañ


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