Latin American Trolleybus Installations
data by Allen Morrison
LIST REVISED AUGUST 2015

COUNTRY

City

opened

chrono

closed

roster

 
ARGENTINA

Mendoza #1

16/10/1913

1

1915?

Milnes Voss/Siemens

 

Buenos Aires

4/6/1948

10

30/4/1966

Wes,MB,Hen,MAN

 

La Plata

12/1954

17

25/12/1966

15 MB

 

Bahía Blanca

(1954)

(1954)

(built; never ran)

 

Tucumán

23/7/1955

18

28/4/1962

22 Henschel

 

Mar del Plata

1956

19

1963?

25 MB

 

Mendoza #2

14/2/1958

20

(operating)

MB,Tosh,ZIU,Krupp

 

Rosario

24/5/1959

22

(operating)

MAN, Fiat, MB, ZIU, MP

 

Córdoba

7/5/1989

35

(operating)

ZIU, Norinco

 
BRAZIL

São Paulo #1

22/4/1949

11

(operating)

(various)

 

Belo Horizonte

30/5/1953

15

22/1/1969

Twin, MH, Massari

 

Niterói

21/11/1953

16

10/11/1967

45 Vétra

 

Campos

29/6/1958

21

12/6/1967

9 Vétra ex-Niterói

 

Salvador

9/1/1959

23

6/1968

50 Alfa-Romeo

 

Araraquara

27/12/1959

24

20/11/2000

(various Brazilian)

 

Recife

15/6/1960

25

24/9/2001

Twin, MH, Cif, Vil

 

RiodeJ'ro: S

3/9/1962

26

7/1968?

199 Fiat

 

Santos

12/8/1963

27

(operating)

AR/Fiat,MP, Mafersa

 

Porto Alegre

7/12/1963

28

19/5/1969

9 Massari

 

RiodeJ'ro: N

4/1965

29

4/1971?

60 Fiat

 

Fortaleza

25/1/1967

30

2/1972

9 Massari

 

Ribeirão Preto

24/7/1982

32

2/7/1999

22 Villares

 

Rio Claro

9/5/1986

33

7?/1993

10 UH ex-São Paulo

 

São Paulo #2

3/12/1988

34

(operating)

Cobrasma, Marcopolo

 
CHILE

Santiago #1

1940

6

?

homemade 1-pole

 

Santiago #2

31/10/1947

8

4?/6/1979

100 Pul, 100 Vétra

 

Valparaíso

31/12/1952

14

(operating)

30 Pul + Sw, Chin

 

Santiago #3

24/12/1991

36

9/7/1994

Pul, Norinco, Swiss

 
COLOMBIA

Medellin

12/10/1929

3

1951

4 Rans, 5 homemade

 

Bogotá

12/4/1948

9

15/8/1991

Br,Pul,MH,ZIU,DAC

 
    Medellin UPB
30/11/2011
 
40
12/2012
1 Belkommunmash
 
CUBA

La Habana
8/9/1949
 
12
?
44 (?) ex-Newark
 
ECUADOR

Quito

18/12/1995

38

(operating)

113 HispCar/MB/AEG

 
MEXICO

Mexico City

9/3/1951

13

(operating)

Wes,AR,Pul,Br,SL+

 

Guadalajara

15/12/1976

31

(operating)

MH, MASA

 
PERU

Lima

7/1928

2

13/6/1931

6 Garrett [> trams!]

 
TRINIDAD

Port of Spain

1/10/1941

67

31/12/1956

30 Ransomes

 
URUGUAY

Montevideo

28/3/1951

13

26/1/1992

18 BUT, 340 AR/Fiat

 
VENEZUELA

Caracas

7/1937

4

1949?

11 rebuilt GM diesels

 
    Valencia
1941
 
5
1947?
?
 
   

Mérida

18/6/2007
 
39
(operating)
45 Hispano/Kiepe
 
    Barquisimeto
23/11/2012
 
41
6/2/2013
80 Neoplan/Bomb'r
 


As far as is known,
there were never any commercial trolleybus operations
in Bolivia or Paraguay, in any of the Guianas,
in any country in Central America,
or on any of the other Caribbean islands.
My webpage The Trolleybuses of Latin America
presents descriptions and photographs of many of the
systems noted on the list above. Also see my home page
entitled
Urban Transport in Latin America.


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