Once in place, the railroad hauled workers to build the huge smelter. Later, it would carry out into the world beyond…the Canyon’s bounty of copper. Indeed, copper was king, until it played out. The copper smelters are gone.
What now remains an only ghostly remnant of this era gone by. But, the romance and the color of that railroad still runs strong.
Today, near Clarkdale, just 25 miles south of Sedona, Arizona, the Verde Canyon Railroad hauls a different kind of payload—people.