Burro Mountain Junction to Tyrone

The Tyrone Branch

(Forwarded from the Burro Mountain Railroad)

The abandoned railroad route between Burro Mountain Junction and Tyrone, known as The Tyrone Branch, of which 13.07 miles have been abandoned, was once operated in New Mexico by the Burro Mountain Railroad and the Southern Pacific Railroad.

ICC Abandonment Filings

SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD
Docket Number: 9876 Date: 3/8/1933 Section: 1
App. of Burro Mountain RR. Co. and Southern Pacific Co. for certificate to abandon the Tyrone Branch, and its operation, between Burro Mountain Junction and Tyrone, in Grant County, New Mexico, a distance of 13.07 miles.
Length: 13.07 miles Citation: 193 ICC 758  

Was there ever a railroad in railroad canyon in the Gila Wilderness?

d. hood
lordsburg, NM
10/5/2011

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There was no "Burro Mountain Railroad." The Comanche Mining Co. owned the SC, PA & M (Silver City, Pino Altos & Mogollon RR which was a 2' narrow gauge with about 15 miles of track. They planed to extend the RR to (Old) Tyrone & Leopold (copper mines) in about 1906-07. This was to be the Burro Mountain extension. It was only a paper RR. The Santa Fe brought in a standard gauge from Whitewater in about 1913 to get the ore from the Tyrone area. The mine became an open pit and the towns of Tyrone and Leopold were destroyed. Tyrone was rebuilt in it's current location.

Joe Gill
Mimbres, , NM
1/20/2012

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About Railroad canyon. There are two Railroad canyons in the Gila. There were no RR build in either one.

Joe Gill
Mimbres , NM
1/20/2012

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