MEXICO

"La Ilusión Viaja en Tranvía" feature movie (1953).
Credits over trolley scene
Synopsis with photo
Internet Movie Database
Video order form

"The Tramways of Mexico". 145-year survey.
My website: history, photos, maps

Aguascalientes. Tramway (closed)
My webpage: history, photos, map

Celaya. Tramway (closed).
My webpage: history, photos, map

Cerritos. Tramway (closed).
Short description + great photograph

Chihuahua. Tramway (closed).
My webpage: history, photos, map

Ciudad Juárez. Tramway (closed).
My webpage: history, photos, map
Early photograph
Old postcards show trolleys
"El Paso Streetcars Home Page"!

Guadalajara. Rapid transit system ("Tren Eléctrico").
UrbanRail map, description, history & links
Newspaper map
SITEUR website
Rough map of planned line 3

Guadalajara. Tramway (closed).
My webpage: history, photos, large map

Guadalajara. Trolleybus system.
Official Sistecozome website
Dozens of early enlargeable trolleybus photographs
1995 map

Guanajuato. Interurban light rail plan.
UNAM article 4 August 2000

Hidalgo del Parral. Tramway (closed).
My webpage: history, photos, map

Mérida. Tramway (closed).
The Tramways of Yucatán: history, 8 photos

Mexico City. Light rail line (STE "Tren Ligero").
Official STE page
STE page with map
STE page with car diagrams, stats and photos

Mexico City. Rapid transit system (STC "Metro").
Official site: maps, history, photos, technical data
UrbanRail map, description, history & links
Metro map

Mexico City. Street railway (closed).
My website: 4 pages, 59 illustrations, 2 maps
Extraordinary website of maybe 100 pages with hundreds of
photos of trams & trolleybuses, old and new, maps, etc.!

Manuel Aguirre survey of tramway history: text photos, maps
Extraordinary (partial) map of the electric tram system
48 photographs (!) via Dave's Railpix
Brief history - with photos of trams in Lima, Peru!
El Universal newspaper notes 105 years of electric traction

Mexico City. Suburban railway.
RGI article on inauguration 2 June 2008
Trainboard.com pictures

Mexico City. Trolleybus system (STE).
STE page with photos & stats of trolleybus fleet
STE page with diagrams & stats of 9000 series
Transporte Publico description
Hundreds of beautiful trolleybus photographs!
Model of ex-Winnipeg Brill trolleybus 3265

Monterrey. Grutas de García funicular.
Three photos

Monterrey. Rapid transit system.
UrbanRail map, description, history & links
Official Metrorrey website
Newspaper map


Monterrey. Tramway (closed).
My webpage: history, photos, map

Nuevo Laredo. Tramway (closed).
My webpage: history, photos, map
1892 (?) panoramic map of Laredo, Texas, showing
"Electric Motor St. RR." and car in Nuevo Laredo:
this was the first electric railway in Latin America
(zoom in on bridge and riverbank lower left)

Pachuca. Tramway (closed).
My webpage: history, photos, map

Progreso. Tramway (closed).
The Tramways of Yucatán: history, 2 photos

Puebla. Tramway (closed).
My webpage: history, photos, map

Querétaro. Tramway (closed).
Superb 5-part railway history includes tramways

San Luis Potosí. Tramway (closed)
My webpage: history, photos, map

Tampico. Tramway (closed)
My webpage: history, photos, map
2:24-minute YouTube video using pictures from my page above!
6 photographs via Dave's

Torreón. Tramway (closed).
My webpage: history, photos, map
Los viejos tranvías de Torreón by Sergio Antonio Corona Páez

Tuxtepec. Tramway (closed).
My webpage: history & map (no photos yet)

Veracruz. Tramway (closed).
My webpage: history, photos, map
61 photos of streetcars from Dave's
Enlargeable photo from 1940 shows several cars

Zacatecas. Aerial cableway.
Photograph

 

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