JOURNAL OF ARIZONA HISTORY for Winter 2004 has an excellent article by William D. Kalt III called "I'll Meet You in the Cornfield: Southern Arizona's Tragic Train Wreck of 1903. "Meeting in the Cornfield" meant a head-on collision and that's exactly what happened in the area of Rita Road and Houghton Rd. Nothing is there to alert anyone to the tragedy that occurred on this spot but there are plans afoot to have plaques places at the site as a memorial to those who died. The accident was blamed on the dispatcher who failed to warn the Southern Pacific's Sunset Limited to pull over to a siding rail to allow the Crescent City Express to come through. One of the men killed was Engineer Jack Bruce who brought the first train into Tucson in 1880.
I went over to the site after reading an article by Bonnie Henry in the DAILY STAR and was amazed to see remnants of the old rail bed showing so clearly through the ground. Off in the woods is the slag bed from the railroad.
This photo was taken in front of the Pyramid Credit Union and shows the approximate site of the collision.