Southern Arizona Transportation Museum

 The two murals below are on the front of the museum facing Toole Ave.

                                  Tulley, Ochoa & Co.

By Bill Singleton.

Tully, Ochoa & Company was a freight line in early Tucson.  Railroads put them out of business.

                           Welcoming the new railroad to Tucson.

By Bill Singleton

Click on either photo for larger images (recommended).

Update by Jerry Peek (May 13, 2024): Bill Singleton's Facebook page has lots of photos of the murals in progress. Here's his three-minute video of the first panel from start to finish:



He's currently working on a third panel.

Update (July 13, 2024): Jerry met the artist as he was finishing the third panel. Bill told me a number of things about the history he designed in. For instance, the tents in the first panel were for the Chinese workers. The tents were moved along the tracks as work progressed:

In the second panel, the man holding the silver spike was Tucson's first Hispanic mayor (or maybe in the whole US?). The silver was from Tombstone:

Jerry took two more closeup photos, one of the first panel and the next of the second panel:

Update (December 6, 2024): Today's post Murals being made, part 83: Third mural at Southern AZ Transportation Museum shows the last of three mural panels.