VERDE CANYON ROUTE
ROBIN BREAN
General Manager
928-639-0010 ext. 154
Born in South Dakota, Robin spent her entire life in Alaska prior to moving to Arizona in 1991. She has a degree in sociology from the University of Alaska. She came to the Verde Canyon as part of a team who built the new railroad depot in 1997 and was asked to stay on with the railroad. Robin advanced quickly to assistant general manager before taking on the general manager’s position of both the passenger and freight divisions in 2006.
Her goal is to ‘always take the operations one step further’ through good employee and customer relationships. Not only does Robin oversee the daily operations of both railroads, she has been ‘hands-on’ in the caboose and museum renovations and reoccurring upgrades on the passenger service. Her talent is apparent in every detail of the operations.
The Clarkdale Arizona Central Railroad, LC, located in central Arizona, was purchased from the Santa Fe Railroad in April 1989. The route, comprised mainly of 90# rail, is laid from Clarkdale to Drake, Arizona. At the present time, the primary customer on the line is Phoenix Cement.
The base of operations is at Clarkdale. Two GP-7 locomotives are utilized to make three trips per week, hauling loaded cement cars outbound and loaded coal cars inbound. The balance of the available crew time is used to perform routine track and locomotive maintenance.
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