List of street railways in Mexico

This is a list of street railways in Mexico by state. The list includes all tram systems, past and present.

Note for Mexico (in general): Approximately 1,000 towns had tramways. Most were worked by animal traction, and connected railway stations with town centers. Some lines were worked by small steam locomotives. Horse- or mule-drawn vehicles used on some lines were eventually equipped with petrol (gasoline) engines (Morrison ). Opening and closing dates are difficult to establish because the Mexican government did not conduct surveys of tramway systems between 1907 and 1922 (Morrison .

Data for 1907 were published in 1912, by which time the Mexican Revolution (1910–1921) was underway. Thereafter, government statistics included only those tramway systems with federal concessions—e.g. intercity lines—for the years 1922–1934.

The tables below includes fewer than half the number of towns stated by Morrison. Peschkes (Part One, 1980, pages 10–38) tabulates 406 systems, and states (Part Four, 1998, page 140) that an additional 51 systems had been located. The list below excludes hacienda tramways, which transported crops, other goods and passengers to and from plantations.

Aguascalientes

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Compañía Productora y Abastecedora de Potencia Eléctrica de Aguascalientes	Aguascalientes	Horse	Feb 1883	?
		Electric	5 May 1904	1931
	Asientos – Presa de la Huerta	Steam	?	?
	Calvillo	Mule	?	?
	Lagos	Mule	?	?
	Rincón de Romos	Mule	?	?
	♦ Rincón de Romos – Tepezalá	Mule	?	?

Baja California

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Ensenada	Mule	?	?
	Mexicali	Mule	?	?
	Tecate	Mule	?	?
	Tijuana	Mule	?	?

Baja California Sur

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	La Paz	Mule	?	?
	Santa Rosalía	Steam	?	?
	Todos Santos	Mule	?	?

Campeche

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	(San Francisco de) Campeche – Lerma	Mule	?	?
		Steam	?	?
		Petrol (gasoline)	?	1941
	Chencán – Morelos – Chumal	Mule	?	?
	Ciudad del Carmen	Mule	?	?
	El Pital – Matamoros	Mule	?	?
	El Pital – Escarcega	Mule	?	?

Chiapas

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Arriaga	Mule	?	?
	Comitán (de Domínguez)	Mule	?	?
	San Cristóbal (de las Casas)	Mule	?	?
	Tapachula	Mule	?	?
	Tonalá	Mule	?	?
	Tuxtla Gutiérrez	Mule	?	?

Chihuahua

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Casas Grandes	Mule	?	?
	Cerrito (or Cerritos)	Mule	?	?	see note.
Compañía Eléctrica y de Ferrocarriles de Chihuahua	Chihuahua	Mule	1887	1908
		Electric	4 Oct 1908	1922
	(Santa Rosalía de) Camargo	Mule	?	?
El Paso Electric Company, Transportation Division (El Paso City Lines)	Ciudad Juárez	Mule	Oct 1882	?
		Electric	11 Jan 1902	30 Jul 1973	Operation suspended Aug 1966 – Nov 1967, and Jul 1969 – Nov 1970. International tramway from El Paso, Texas. (See also: List of town tramway systems in North America#Texas.) Allen Morrison, The Tramways of Ciudad Juárez
	Delicias	Mule	?	?
	Jiménez	Mule	?	?
	Ojinaga	Mule	?	?
Ferrocarril Urbano de Hidalgo del Parral	(Hidalgo del) Parral	Electric	Feb 1908	11 Oct 1908	, see note.
	San Francisco del Oro	Mule	?	?
	San José	Mule	?	?

• Note for Cerrito: Peschkes (Part One, 1980, Page 28) states that the location of this town is "unknown."
• Note for (Hidalgo del) Parral: Peschkes (Part One, 1980, page 17) states that animal and electric traction was used in Parral. Morrison states that "Parral never had a horse tram line." Operation of electric tramway suspended (after fewer than nine months) because of electric substation equipment breakdown. It is not known whether the system reopened.

Coahuila

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Allende	Horse	?	?
	Monclova	Horse	?	?
		Petrol (gasoline)	?	?
	♦ Monclova – Pánuco, Coahuila	Steam	?	?
	Piedras Negras	Horse	?	?
	Saltillo	Horse	?	?
		Accumulator (storage battery)	?	?
	Torreón	Horse	1900	?
		Electric	Dec 1904	ca. 1940	, . See also Lerdo (Durango) – Gómez Palacio (Durango) – Torreón.
	♦ Torreón – San Pedro (de las Colonias)	Horse	?	?
	♦ San Pedro de las Colonias	Horse	?	?
	♦ Torreón – Matamoros (de la Laguna)	Horse	?	?
	Viesca	Horse	?	?

Colima

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Colima – Villa de Alvarez	Mule	?	?
		Petrol (gasoline)	?	?
	Manzanillo	Petrol (gasoline)	?	?

Durango

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Dinamita	Mule	?	?
	Durango – Cerro de Mercado	Mule	?	?
		Accumulator (storage battery)	?	?
	Lerdo – Gómez Palacio	Horse	1890	?
		Electric	3 Mar 1901	3 Mar, 1953	, . See note.
	Pedriceña	Mule	?	?

• Note for Lerdo – Gómez Palacio: Gómez Palacio – Torreón (Coahuila) opened 3 July 1901. See also Torreón, Coahuila.

Guanajuato

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Acámbaro	Horse	?	?
	♦ Acámbaro – San Pablo	Horse	?	?
	Apaseo el Alto	Horse	?	?
Ferrocarril Urbano de Celaya	Celaya	Horse	188_	May 1954	. Believed to be the last town tramway in Mexico (and North America) worked by horse traction.
Ferrocarril de Celaya a Santa Cruz	Celaya – Roque – Plancarte / Santa Cruz (de Juventino Rosas)	Horse	ca 1893	?
		Petrol (gasoline)	?	1940
	Cortazar – Villagrán	Horse	?	?
	Dolores Hidalgo (Cuna de la Independencia Nacional)	Horse	?	?
	Guanajuato – Marfil	Horse	?	?
		Petrol (gasoline)	?	?
	Irapuato	Horse	?	?
		Petrol (gasoline)	?	?
	León	Horse	?	?
		Petrol (gasoline)	?	?
	Pénjamo	Horse	?	?
	Salamanca	Horse	?	?
	♦ Salamanca – San Juan	Horse	?	?
	(San Andrés de) Salvatierra – San José	Horse	?	?
	San Felipe	Horse	?	?
	San Francisco del Rincón	Horse	?	?
	San Luis de la Paz	Horse	?	?
	San Miguel de Allende	Horse	?	?
	Silao (de la Victoria)	Horse	?	?
		Steam	?	?
	Silva – Jerécuaro	Horse	?	?
		Steam	?	?
	Valle de Santiago	Horse	?	?

Guerrero

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Chilpancingo (de los Bravo)	Horse	?	?
	Iguala (de la Independencia)	Horse	?	?

Hidalgo

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Acopinalco – Chimalpan	Horse	?	?
	Amaninalco – Iroló	Horse	?	?
	Huichapan – San Juan del Río, Querétaro	Horse	?	?
	Los Romeros	Horse	?	?
	Pachuca	Horse	?	?
		Steam	?	?
		Electric	Sep (?) 1913	ca. 1940
	San Agustín (Tlaxiaca)	Horse	?	?
	San Idefonso	Horse	?	?
	San Vicente – Estancia	Horse	?	?
	Sandoval	Horse	?	?
	Tetlapayac – Tetlapaya	Horse	?	?
	Tula de Allende	Horse	?	?
	Tulancingo de Bravo	Horse	?	?

Jalisco

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Atenquique	Horse	?	?
	Encarnación de Diaz	Horse	?	?
	Guadalajara	Horse	Jan 1878	?
		Electric	14 Sep 1907	1944
	♦ (San Pedro) Tlaquepaque	Horse	?	?
	La Barca	Horse	?	1953
	Lagos de Moreno	Horse	?	?
	Ocotlán	Horse	?	?
	San Juan de los Lagos	Horse	?	?
	San Marcos	?	?	?
	Tala	Horse	?	?
	Tepatitlán (de Morelos)	Horse	?	?
	Tequila	Horse	?	1952
	Zapotlán (del Rey)	?	?	?
	Zapotlanejo	?	?	?

Estado de México (State of Mexico)

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	El Oro de Hidalgo	Horse	?	?
	Hueyapan – Ciudad Pelon	?	?	?
	Ixtlahuaca de Rayón – Mani	Horse	?	?
	La Compañía	Horse	?	?
	Otumba (de Gómez Farías) – San Lorenzo – Cuantento – Tlaquiltchan, Hidalgo	Horse	?	?
		Petrol (gasoline)	?	?
	San Felipe del Progreso	Horse	?	?
	San Rafael – Zavaleta	Steam	?	?
	Tecpatepec – Palma	Steam	?	?
	Tenango del Aire	Horse	?	?
		Petrol (gasoline)	?	?
	Teotihuacán (de Arista) – San Juan	Horse	?	?
		Steam	?	?
		Diesel	?	?
	Tlalnepantla de Baz	Petrol (gasoline)	?	?
	Toluca (de Lerdo)	Horse	?	?
		Petrol (gasoline)	?	?
		Accumulator (storage battery)	?	?
	Toluca – San Juan	Petrol (gasoline)	?	?
	Zacatepec	Horse	?	?
	Zoquiapán	Diesel	?	?
	Zumpango (de Ocampo)	Horse	?	?

Mexico City

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Servicio de Transportes Eléctricos (Streetcars in Mexico City, Xochimilco Light Rail)	Ciudad de México /Mexico City	Horse	12 Dec 1857	24 Nov, 1932
		Steam	1865	?
		Accumulator (storage battery)	1896	1900
		Petrol (gasoline)	?	1934
		Electric	15 Jan 1900	19 May 1979	Operation suspended 1911–1915 because of revolution. Xochimilco Light Rail (south end of ex-Tlalpan line) continues in operation. , , .
Ferrocarril de Tacubaya	Tacubaya	Steam	1896	1910	[1]

Michoacán (de Ocampo)

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Lázaro Cárdenas – Río Grijalva	Horse	?	?
	La Piedad de Cavadas	Horse	?	1941
		Petrol (gasoline)	?	?
	Los Reyes (de Salgado)	Horse	?	?
	Mineral del Oro	?	?	?
	Morelia	Horse	?	?
		Petrol (gasoline)	?	?
		Accumulator (storage battery)	?	?
	(Vista Hermosa de) Negrete	Horse	?	?
	Pátzcuaro	Horse	188_	191_
		Petrol (gasoline)	?	?
	Tacámbaro (de Codallos)	Horse	?	?
	Uruapan	Horse	?	?
	Yurécuaro	Horse	?	?
	Zamora	Horse	188_	191_
		Petrol (gasoline)	?	?
	(Heroica) Zitácuaro	Horse	?	?

Morelos

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	La heroica e histórica Cuautla de Morelos /Cuautla	Horse	?	?
	Cuernavaca	Horse	?	?
	Nenampa – El Guarda (Tlalpan), Districto Federal	Horse	?	?
	(Juan) Pagaza – Tlaquiltenango	Horse	?	?
		Petrol (gasoline)	?	?
	Puente de Ixtla	Horse	?	?
	Santa Ines	?	?	?
	Yautepec (de Zaragoza)	Horse	?	?
	Zacatepec (de Hidalgo) – Jojutla (de Juárez)	Horse	?	?
	♦ Zacatepec (de Hidalgo) – Tlatizapan	Horse	?	?

Nayarit

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Acaponeta	Horse	?	?
	Compostela	Horse	?	?
	Ruíz	Horse	?	?
	San Blas	Horse	?	?
	Tepic	Horse	?	?

Nuevo León

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Anáhuac	Horse	?	?
	Guadalupe – Minas Viejas	Horse	?	?
	Linares – San José	Petrol (gasoline)	?	?
	Los Aldamas	Horse	?	?
	Montemorelos	Horse	?	?
	Monterrey	Horse	1883	?
		Electric	15 Jul 1907	30 May 1932
	Villa de Santa María de Los Aldamas /Villa Aldamas – Doctor Coss	Horse	?	?

Oaxaca

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Ixtepec	Horse	?	?
	Loma Bonita	Horse	?	?
	Oaxaca (de Juárez)	Horse	ca. 1890	193_
		Accumulator (storage battery) (?)	?	?
		Petrol (gasoline) (?)	?	?
	♦ Oaxaca – Ejutla de Crespo	Horse	?	?
	♦ Oaxaca – Santa María del Tule	Horse	?	?
	San Juan Chapultepec – San Pablo Etla	Horse	?	?
	(San Juan Bautista) Tuxtepec – Sebastopol	Horse	?	?
	(Santo Domingo) Tehuantepec	Horse	?	?

Puebla

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Acatzingo (de Hidalgo) – Huizcolotla – Annatempan	Steam	?	?
	Amozoc – Tepeaco	Horse	?	?
	Apapasco – Tlaloc	Horse	?	?
	Atlixco	Horse	1898	?
		Petrol (gasoline)	?	after 1944
	Atencingo – Tlancualpican	?	?	?
	Chachapa – Capulac	?	?	?
	Chietla	Horse	?	?
	Ciudad Serdán – Chalchicomulas	Petrol (gasoline)	?	?
	Ciudad Serdán – San Andrés – La Capilla	Horse	?	?
	Esperanza – Xúchil	Horse	?	?
	Galapaxco	Horse	?	?	see note.
	Izúcar (de Matamoros)	Horse	?	?
Compañía de Tranvías, Luz y Fuerza de Puebla	Puebla	Horse	May 1881	?
		Petrol (gasoline)	?	10 Oct 1926
Compañía de Tranvías, Luz y Fuerza de Puebla	♦ Puebla – El Valor, Tlaxcala	Horse	ca. 1890	?	, see note.
		Petrol (gasoline)	?	Mar 1942	, see note.
Compañía de Tranvías, Luz y Fuerza de Puebla	♦ Puebla – Cholula (de Rivadavia) – Huexotzingo	Horse	ca. 1890	?	, see note.
		Petrol	?	1928	, see note.
		Electric	27 May 1924	31 Dec, 1941	, see note.
	Tecamachalco	Horse	?	?
	Tehuacán – El Riego	Horse	?	?
		Petrol (gasoline)	?	1950
	San Martín Texmelucan de Labastida /Texmelucan – Tetla – Huexotzingo	Horse	?	?
	Teziutlán	Horse	?	?

• Note for Galapaxco: Peschkes (Part One, 1980, Page 34) states that the location of this town is "unknown."
• Note for Puebla – El Valor: Opened in stages, completed 1897.
• Note for Puebla – Cholula – Huexotzingo: Opened in stages, completed 1897. Puebla – Cholula electrified 1924. Cholula – Huejotzingo not electrified.

Querétaro

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	(San Sebastián) Bernal	Horse	?	?
	(Santiago de) Querétaro	Horse	?	?
	San Juan del Río	Horse	?	?
		Petrol (gasoline)	?	?
	♦ San Juan del Río – Tequisquiapan	Horse	?	?

San Luis Potosí

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Ciudad Valles	Petrol (gasoline)	?	?
	(San Juan de los) Cerritos	Mule	?	?
	Guerrero	Mule	?	?
		Steam	?	?
	Matehuala	Mule	?	?
	Mina Asarco	Mule	?	?	see note.
	Real de Catorce – Potrero	Mule	?	?
		Electric	15 Sep 1908	3 Jun, 1933
	San Luis Potosí	Horse	188_	?
		Electric	16 Feb 1914	7 Apr, 1932
	♦ Jesús María (Cerro de San Pedro)	Mule	?	?
	♦ Villa de Pozos	Mule	?	?
	Santa María del Río	Mule	?	?
	Tamasopo	Mule	?	?
	Villa de Reyes	Mule	?	?

• Note for Mina Asarco: Peschkes (Part One, 1980, Page 30) states that the location of this town is "unknown." Mina is Spanish for "mine," and Asarco is believed to refer to ASARCO, Inc.

Sinaloa

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Altata	Horse	?	?
	Culiacán	Horse	?	?
	Guasave	Horse	?	?
	Los Mochis	Horse	?	?
	Mazatlán	Horse	?	?
		Steam	1908	1913

Sonora

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Cananea	Mule	1902 [2]	?
	Ciudad Obregón	Mule	?	?
	Guaymas	Mule	1888	1917
	Hermosillo	Mule	?	?
	Huatabampo	Mule	?	?
	Navojoa	Mule	?	?
	Nogales	Mule	?	?
		Petrol (gasoline)	?	?

Tabasco

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Cárdenas	Mule	?	?
	Frontera	Mule	?	?
	Jalapa	Mule	?	?
	Tamulté (de las Sábanas)	Mule	?	?
	Villahermosa	Mule	?	?
		Petrol (gasoline)	?	?

Tamaulipas

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Ciudad Victoria	Horse	?	?
		Petrol (gasoline)	?	?
	Ciudad Mante	Horse	?	?
		Petrol (gasoline)	?	?
	Matamoro	Horse	?	?
		Petrol (gasoline)	?	?
	Nuevo Laredo	Horse	19 Nov 1886	?
		Electric	12 Mar 1890	?	International tramway, from Laredo, Texas US
	Reynosa	Horse	?	?
	Santa Engracia	Horse	?	?
	Tampico	Horse	1879 1 Jan 1901	? ?
		Electric	May (?) 1914	31 Mar 1927
	♦ Tampico – Miramar (Ciudad Madero)	Electric	30 Aug 1914	13 Dec, 1974

Tlaxcala

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Analco – Reyes	Horse	?	?
	Apizacl – Tlaxco (de Morelos)	Horse	?	?
	Guadalupe	Horse	?	?
	Huamantla	Horse	?	?
	Nanacamilpa – Ixtajiaguca	Horse	?	?
	Tlaxcala	Petrol (gasoline)	?	?
	Zoltepec	Petrol (gasoline)	?	?

Veracruz (de Ignacio de la Llave)

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Alamo	Horse	?	?
	Alvarado	Horse	?	?
	Coatepec	Horse	?	?
	Coatzacoalcos	Horse	?	?
	Córdoba	Horse	?	?
		Steam	?	?
		Petrol (gasoline)	?	?
	El Humo (Pánuco) – El Higo	Petrol (gasoline)	?	?
	La Gloria – Cardel	Horse	?	?
	(San Pedro de) Los Naranjos – Cuchillos	Horse	?	?
	Nanchital – El Chapo	Horse	?	?
	Orizaba	Horse	1878	?
		Petrol (gasoline)	192_	1933
	Paso del Macho	Horse	?	?
	San Jeronimo – Cerro Azul	Steam	?	?
	San Juan Evangelista – Juilo	Horse	?	?
	Soledad (de Doblado)	Horse	?	?
	Tecolutla – Palo Hueco	Horse	?	?
	Tierra Blanca	Horse	?	?
	Tlacotalpan	Horse	?	?
	Túxpam de Rodríguez Cano /Túxpan	Horse	?	?
	Túxpam de Rodríguez Cano /Túxpan	Horse	?	?
	(San Andrés) Tuxtla	Horse	?	?
Sociedad Cooperativa de Transportes Urbanos y Sub-Urbanos de Veracruz S.A. de C.V.	Veracruz	Horse	1864	1939
		Electric	5 Jul 1908	16 Aug, 1981
	♦ Veracruz – Tejería	Horse	?	?
		Petrol (gasoline)	?	?
	♦ Veracruz – Xalapa (de Enríquez) /Jalapa	Mule	1875	1893	. Ranked as world's longest horse tramway line.
	Xalapa (de Enríquez) /Jalapa	Horse	1875	?
		Steam	1898	1926
		Accumulator (storage battery)	?	?
		Petrol (gasoline)	1926	1935

Yucatán

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Espita	Horse	?	?
	Mérida	Horse	15 Dec 1880
		Steam	189_	?
		Accumulator (storage battery)	1918	?
		Petrol (gasoline)	1919	1930
	Peto	Horse	?	?
	Progreso	Horse	189_	?
		Petrol (gasoline)	?	193_
	Sisal	Horse	?	?
	Tekax (de Álvaro Obregón)	Horse	?	?
	Tizimín	Horse	?	?
	Tzucacab	Horse	?	?
	Valladolid	Horse	?	?

• Note for Yucatán: In addition to urban tramways, "central Yucatán" (i.e. the northeastern part of Yucatán state) had more than 1,500 km (950 mi) of intercity tramways, all worked by horses or mules. At least seven such lines extended from Mérida . In addition, Yucatán also had approximately 3,000 km (1,900 mi) of hacienda tramways. These were built to transport henequen crops from plantation fields to railway stations . Some henequen plantations closed because of the Great Depression, and the hacienda tramways were handed to railway companies or other enterprises. Many hacienda tramways were eventually abandoned but tracks remained in use by local residents . A few hacienda tramways continued in operation after 2000.

Zacatecas

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Concepción del Oro (El Oro)	Horse	?	?
	Fresnillo	Horse	?	?
	Jerez	Horse	?	?
	Sombrerete	Horse	?	?
		Petrol (gasoline)	?	?
	Zacatecas	Horse	?	?
	♦ Zacatecas – Ojocaliente	Horse	?	?

References

1. Best, Gerald M. (1968). Mexican Narrow Gauge. Howell-North. pp. 75–78.
2. "News of the Town". Arizona Republican. 30 August 1902. p. 5. Retrieved 17 December 2019.