A community pool once sat just north of where the Silver Horizon Zephyr railcar now sits. The Zephyr railcar came to Maricopa in 2000 and was utilized as the Amtrak ticket station for the community from 2001 to 2003 before a larger ticket station was built closer to the railroad tracks. Using massive cranes, the railcar was moved to its current location in January 2019.
This story was first published in the May edition of InMaricopa magazine.