Famous Locomotives
- Engine No. 5, a 2-8-0, was the only standard gauge locomotive acquired new by the Magma Arizona.
- Engine No. 6 is a Baldwin Locomotive Works 2-6-0 built in October 1907 and operated until 1960. It is now on display at the McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park in Scottsdale, Arizona.
- Engine No. 7, a Baldwin 2-8-2, was built in 1917 for the Tremont and Gulf Railroad, who sold it to Magma in 1954. It was featured in the popular epic film How the West Was Won. The engine was purchased by the Texas State Railroad in 1974 and rehabbed in 1978.
- Engine No. 8, a Baldwin S-8, was originally built for the Medford Corporation in 1952. After Medford suspended railroad logging operations in 1961, the locomotive was sold to Magma Arizona in 1968. Its generator failed in September 1992 and was sold to The Southern Oregon Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society, who rehabbed it for use on the Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad. It is the only Baldwin switcher built with dynamic braking.
- Engine No. 10, a Baldwin DRS-6-6-1500 was built in 1950 for the McCloud River Railroad as their No. 29. It was purchased in 1969 by Magma and renumbered to Engine No. 10 and operated on the Magma line from January, 1970 - 1991. In 1994, it was donated to the Arizona Railway Museum in Chandler, Arizona, where it is largely functional.
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