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- ↑ "Pacific Southwest Railway Museum" . Retrieved 2015-04-26.
- ↑ Deustch, Reena (2012). San Diego and Arizona Railway:: The Impossible Railroad. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-1439640470 . Retrieved June 11, 2015.