In 1903 the worst train wreck in the history of Arizona at the time occurred in Esmond, AZ (32.09376° N, 110.76417° W). The local paper that month had this to say about the event : ""Out on the desert, sixteen miles from the city, is the charred and smoking mass of debris which marks the spot of the fearful wreck of Wednesday morning. The wreck of Esmond will never be forgotten. On the tablets of memory, anguish, suffering and death was written ineffacably the horrors of the worst railroad disaster that has ever occurred in the Territory of Arizona." There is, of course, a cache in the area!
Looking south along the coal bed that used to be where the railroad tracks lay. They extend quite a distance both north and south, but there are no rails remaining.
Looking south along the coal bed that used to be where the railroad tracks lay. They extend quite a distance both north and south, but there are no rails remaining.
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