Here's a YouTube video where a guy hiked along the ATSF right-of-way that was abandoned in 1960 when the Crookton-Williams Jct. line relocation was completed.

The guy who made the video doesn't appear to be a railfan. There may be some factual inaccuracies in the narration, but, all in all, it's still a pretty good video and I saw some stuff that I'd never seen before.

This was the westbound main and the nearby eastbound main was retained and is now part of the Phoenix Subdivison, used by trains running to and from Phoenix.

Also included is a publicity photo from a 1966 Santa Fe brochure promoting passenger trains that shows either the westbound CHIEF or the SAN FRANCISCO CHIEF. The latter train received Hi-Level cars in 1964.

The screen shot from the video is composed somewhat closely to the Santa Fe publicity photo.

In early 1960, a few months before the Crookton-Williams Jct. line relocation opened, my family and I made a round trip on the EL CAPITAN when we traveled to Indiana for my grandfather's funeral. So, I "have the mileage" through this abandoned tunnel, going on the assumption that we weren't routed against the current of traffic. I have no photographic evidence of riding this abandoned line but I will assume that I did.

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Here's a video about the construction of the Crookton-Williams Jct. line relocation. Art Gilmore, of HIGHWAY PATROL and movie trailer narration fame, starts talking about it at the 8:20 mark:

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