ELECTRIC TRANSPORT IN LATIN AMERICA (original) (raw)
¡¡¡ Now In Its 22nd Year !!!
ELECTRIC TRANSPORT IN LATIN AMERICApast & present
homepage of ALLEN MORRISON
This website is an extension of my books The Tramways of Brazil and The Tramways of Chile, which were published, respectively, on paper, in 1989 and 1992. Digital surveys of The Tramways of other countries have been created and uploaded as follows: Paraguay in 2000, Cuba in 2002, Mexico in 2003, Haiti and Peru in 2004, Bolivia in 2005, Ecuador and Venezuela in 2006, Colombia in 2007, Costa Rica, Guyana, Jamaica, Panama, Puerto Rico and Trinidad & Tobago in 2008, Barbados and El Salvador in 2009, Curaçao in 2012, Arubain 2013 and Dominican Republic in 2016. Many of these pages have versions in other languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, Russian, Belorussian, Macedonian, Albanian, Georgian, Estonian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Polish, Ukrainian, Japanese et al. A facsimile edition(with pictures and maps) of my 1989 Brazil book was added in 2010 and, as shown below, many of the discussions of the Brazilian systems have been expanded in digital form with new information and illustrations. There are pages about trolleybus systems in ten countries.
recent additions/revisions:
9/2018: Cuenca tramway inauguration postponed to March 2019
9/2018: Cuenca tramway - text in Georgian: ახალი ტრამვაი კუენკა, ეკვადორში 8/2018: Cuenca tramway - text in Lithuanian: Žiūrėkite versiją lietuvių kalba 10/2018: Cuenca tramway - text in Estonian: Uus tramway Cuencas, Ecuador
8/2018: Cuiabá, Brazil - update on the ill-fated light rail project
8/2018: "The Last Trolleybus in Colombia" my Bogotá pix + music (short video)
7/2018: Battery-powered trams, trains, buses - link to Japanese translation
7/2018: Quito trolleybuses updated - Part 4: 24 new photographs, map
6/2018: Puebla, Mexico - new Tren Turístico: description, 24 photos
4/2018: Rio de Janeiro first light rail project, 1982-85: revised text, new pix1/2018: São Paulo: 24 fotos coloridas dos bondes em 1957-1965
2/2017:Rio de Janeiro light rail 2016–: map, history, 50 photographs
general:
Current operations: what's running today - quick inventory The Tramways of Latin America in 2018 - descriptions, 20 maps, 36 photos The Trolleybuses of Latin America _in 2018_- 11 systems, 8 maps, 30 photos Chronology: electric transport inaugurations 1883-
Chronology: electric transport closures 1898-
The first tramway maps in South America: Rio 1858 & 1867 Track gauges in millimeters and inches Tramway pioneers: history, description, 16 photos
Tranvías pioneros: historia, descripción, 16 fotos
Trolleybus installations: dates and data
Trolleybus pioneers: history, description, 13 photos
Trolebuses pioneros: historia, descripción, 13 fotos
Battery-Powered Trams, Trains and Buses
Association of American Geographers award for this site Transport Maps drawn by Allen Morrison
Os Trólebus do Brasil: 116 fotos tiradas em 10 cidades brasileiras [fotografias do fotolog "TROLEFOLIA" extinto em 2013]
My videos: Mexico City, Recife, Itatinga, Tirirical (São Luís) Páginas com textos em português Páginas con textos en español Page avec texte en français
My bibliography: my 3 books on paper
Monsacro (Spain) blog on 10 of my illustrations
Newark (NJ, USA) Broad Street Station Line
John Rossman's Tram Views of Asia: 19 countries, 41 photographs
geographical:
ARGENTINA
Argentina: Pedidos de Tranvías Eléctricos...
Buenos Aires - all-time tramway map, 27 systems Buenos Aires - electric railways: map
Buenos Aires - tramway: commemorative postage stamps
Buenos Aires - Tren de la Costa: postcard views
Córdoba - trolleybus system: 6 photos, map
Mar del Plata - heritage tramway: description, map, 17 photos
Mendoza - Trams, Trolleybuses, Metrotranvía
Mendoza - Tramvaie, Troleibuze, Metrotranvía - text in Romanian Rosario - trolleybus line: 4 photos
Valle Hermoso - tramway: 2 photosARUBA
The Streetcars of Oranjestad: description, 24 photographs, 2 mapsBARBADOS
The Tramways of Bridgetown, Barbados: history, 18 illustrations, map BOLIVIA
The Tramways of Bolivia: history, maps, 102 illustrations
Los Tranvías de Bolivia: historia, mapas, 102 ilustraciones
Cochabamba - tramway history, 30 illustrations, 2 maps
(Cochabamba - more photographs of Cochabamba taken by Rodolfo Torrico Zamudio)
Cochabamba - historia de sus tranvías, 30 ilustraciones, 2 mapas
(Cochabamba - más fotos tomadas por Rodolfo Torrico Zamudio)
La Paz - tramway history, 55 illustrations, map
La Paz - historia de sus tranvías, 55 ilustraciones, mapa
La Paz - versión Ferropedia [texto, mapa, link > fotos]
Potosí - tramway history, 9 illustrations, map
Potosí - historia de sus tranvías, 9 ilustraciones, mapa
Oruro and Huanchaca - tramway history, 4 illustrations
Oruro y Huanchaca - historia de sus tranvías, 4 ilustraciones BRAZIL
The Tramways of Brazil: complete, scanned, facsimile version of my book Brief description in Polish language of The Tramways of Brazil Czech translation by Barbora Lebedova of Chapter 4 of the book above The Tramways of Brazil: text (only) of my book "The Tramways of Brazil": review of my book
The Trams of Brazil in the Photographs of Carlheinz Hahmann - 29 illustrations
Os Bondes do Brasil nas Fotografias de Carlheinz Hahmann - 29 ilustrações
Os Trólebus do Brasil: 116 fotos tiradas em 10 cidades brasileiras
Light Rail in Brazil (in the 1980s and 1990s): Rio & Campinas
Além Paraíba - tramway history, 11 illustrations, 2 maps Aparecida + Guaratinguetá: tramway history, 2 maps, 10 photographs Aracaju, Brazil: tramway history, map, 17 photographs Belém - old trams & the new (2005!) line: history, 24 photos, map Belo Horizonte tramways: history, map, 27 photographs
Belo Horizonte tramways - text in Belorussian Belo Horizonte tramways - text in Bulgarian Belo Horizonte tramways - text in Polish Belo Horizonte tramways - text in Rumanian Belo Horizonte tramways - text in Russian Belo Horizonte: 1963 photograph of a Marmon-Herrington trolleybus Bom Sucesso one-car tramway: 18 photos, 2 maps, charts Brasília - metro: 2 maps
Brasília - metro: 8 photographs
Brazil - first railroads and tramways: map
Brazil - light rail (Rio & Campinas): 11 pages, 29 photos, 2 maps
Summary in Polish language of the site above
Campinas tramways: 2 pages, text, maps, 24 photos
Campinas tramway system map
Campinas VLT = LRV line, 1991-1995
Campos (dos Goytacazes) - trams & trolleybuses: text, 24 pix, 2 maps
Campos (dos Goytacazes) - bondes e trólebus: texto, 24 fotos, 2 mapas
Campos do Jordão - tramway: description, 40 photos, map Summary in Polish language of the site above
Campos do Jordão - tramway: map Cuiabá - old tramway and new light rail: pictures, maps Curitiba - tramway history, map, 19 illustrations Curitiba - história dos bondes, mapa, 19 ilustrações Guarujá - tramway history, 3 maps, 26 photographs Itatinga - boat/tram video: 9 minutes, 1980 Itatinga - tramway: text, 2 photos Juiz de Fora - tramway history, 58 photographs, 2 maps Lavras - tramway history, map, 37 photographs Macapá - pier tramway: description, 5 photos
Manaus - tramway history, map, 29 photographs Tramwaje z Manaus - Manaus text in Polish Morro Velho Railway - history, map, 19 photographs Mosqueiro - 11 rare photos of an obscure island tramway (+ 2 of Manaus)
Niterói / São Gonçalo - trams & trolleybuses: text, maps, 45 photos
Pelotas - tramway history, map, 30 photographs Pelotas - tramway history, map, 30 photographs - text in Ukrainian
Petrópolis - tramway history, 2 maps, 23 illustrations
Piracicaba - tramway history, 3 maps, 32 illustrations Piracicaba - história dos bondes [página acima com texto em português]
Piraju - tramway history, 2 maps, 22 illustrations Piraju - história dos bondes, 2 mapas, 22 fotografias Porto Alegre - tramway history, map, 23 photographs
Porto Alegre - história dos bondes, mapa, 23 fotografias
Recife - tramway history, map, 49 photographs
Recife - trolleybus system: history, 13 photos
Recife - trolleybus system: map Recife - trolleybus video: 7 minutes, 1980 Rio de Janeiro - Alto da Boa Vista tramway: text, 11 photos Rio de Janeiro - light rail/VLT 1982–1985 Rio de Janeiro - light rail/VLT 2016+ map, history, 50 photographs Rio de Janeiro - RJTL&P track map from about 1960
Rio de Janeiro - Santa Teresa tramway: drawings of 1953 model
Rio de Janeiro - Santa Teresa tramway: history, 41 photos
Rio de Janeiro - Santa Teresa tramway: map
Rio de Janeiro - Santa Teresa tramway vehicles 1875-present
Rio de Janeiro - Silvestre charter, 1996: description, 9 photos Rio de Janeiro história dos bondes em 75 fotografias, com mapa
Rio de Janeiro tramway history in 75 photographs, with map
Rio de Janeiro - Vila Jardim Santa Cecília monorail Rio Grande - tramway history, 3 maps, 29 illustrations Sacramento - Electric Tramway: text, 14 illustrations, 4 maps Salvador - elevators & funiculars: description, 11 photos
Salvador - rebuilt Pilar funicular: 10 photos by Raimundo Nonato
Salvador - suburban railway: description, 8 photos
Salvador - tram, train & metro: map Salvador - tramway history, map, 42 photographs Santos - article about my 1985 visit (in Portuguese) Santos - light rail, tourist tramway, trolleybus: map, text, pix Santos - preserved trams: 5 photos
Santos - tramway history, 32 photographs
Santos - map of tourist tramways
São Carlos - tramway history, map, 26 photographs
São Luís - tramway history, 4 maps, 30 photos
São Luís (Tirirical) - tramway video: 7 minutes, 1980
São Paulo ABCD Suburbs: transport map São Paulo - 24 fotos coloridas de bondes em 1957-1965
São Paulo - trolleybus map from 2002
São Paulo - VLP or "fura-fila": 6 photos Sorocaba - tramway history, map, 25 photographs Vitória & Vila Velha - tramway history, map, 31 photos Votorantim - electric railway history, map, 26 photographs
CHILE
The Tramways of Chile: text (only) of my book Los Tranvías de Chile: versión en español de mi libro – 220 fotografías, 16 mapas!
American, Chinese, French & Swiss trolleybuses: 9 photos Los Trolebuses Norteamericanos, Chinos, Franceses y Suizos: 9 fotos Iquique - tourist tramway: 2 pages, 19 photos, English text
Iquique - tranvía turístico: 19 fotos, texto en españo Iquique - tranvía antiguo/old tramway: 8 postales/postcards
Santiago trolleybuses - Part A, 1940-1978 / Part B, 1991-1994
Santiago trolebuses - Parte A, 1940-1978 / Parte B, 1991-1994
Valparaíso - doubledeck trams - 40 photos, 2 maps Valparaíso trolleybuses - Part A, 1952-1989/ Part B, 1990-2000 Valparaíso trolebuses - Parte A, 1952-1989 / Parte B, 1990-2000Los Trolebuses Pullman de ValparaísoValparaíso's famous Pullman trolleybuses
Valparaíso trolleybus line: my newspaper article
Valparaíso trolleybuses in Placilla
Los Troles porteños en PlacillaCOLOMBIA
The Tramways of Colombia: history, maps, 87 photographs Los Tranvías de Colombia: historia, mapas, 87 fotografías
Barranquilla - tramway history, maps, 30 illustrations
Bogotá - tramway history, 24 photographs, map Bogotá - historia de sus tranvías, 24 fotografías, mapa
Bogotá - trolleybus history, 32 photographs, map
Bogotá - historia de sus trolebuses, 32 fotografías, mapa
Bogotá - "Trolley Café: history, map, 31 photos
Medellín - tramway history, map, 26 photos
Medellín - historia de sus tranvías, mapa, 26 fotos Panama City - tramway history, 20 illustrations, 2 maps Panamá - historia de sus tranvías, 20 ilustraciones, 2 mapas Pereira - tramway history, 21 illustrations, 2 mapsCOSTA RICA
The Tramways of Costa Rica: 4 systems, 4 maps, 37 photographs
The Tramways of Puntarenas, Cartago, San José & GuácimoCUBA
The Tramways of Cuba: introduction, geographical index Camagüey - tramway history, map, 15 photographs Cárdenas - tramway history, map, 7 photographs
Central Carmen - mysterious horsecar line
Cienfuegos - tramway history, map, 18 photographs
Guanabacoa - tramway history, map, 5 photographs
Havana (city) - tramway history, map, 30 photographs
Havana (province) - tramway history, map, 15 photographs
Hershey - tramway history, map, 12 photographs
Matanzas - tramway history, map, 6 photographs
Pedro Betancourt - tramway history, map, 1 photograph
Santiago de Cuba - tramway history, map, 25 photographs -
including new tram line in 2015!
=============== Cuban Tram Stamps (images copied from the website above!) Los Sellos Cubanos de Tranvías (versión en español) Tramway maps of Camagüey / Cárdenas / Cienfuegos / Guanabacoa / Havana until 1900 / Havana electric era / Havana province / Hershey / Matanzas / Santiago de CubaCURAÇAO
Willemstad: tramway history, 2 maps, 10 photographsDOMINICAN REPUBLIC Santo Domingo, MontecristiECUADOR
Cuenca tramway - text, map, photographs
Cuenca tramway - text in Georgian: ახალი ტრამვაი კუენკა, ეკვადორში Cuenca tramway - text in Lithuanian / Žiūrėkite versiją lietuvių kalba Cuenca tramway - text in Estonian / Uus tramway Cuencas, Ecuador
Guayaquil - tramway history, 2 maps, 27 photographs Guayaquil - historia de sus tranvías, 2 mapas, 28 ilustraciones Quito - tramway history, map, 17 photographs Quito - historia de sus tranvías, mapa, 17 fotografías Quito - trolleybus history, 4 parts, maps, 86 illustrations Quito - trolleybus line: Kiepe mouse padEL SALVADOR
The Tramways of San Salvador, Santa Tecla, Sonsonate: 36 illustrations, 2 maps
Los Tranvías de San Salvador, Santa Tecla, Sonsonate: 34 ilustraciones, 2 mapas GUATEMALA
Guatemala: Quezaltenango Electric Railway: history, 19 photos, 2 maps
Guatemala: FC Eléctrico de Quezaltenango: historia, 19 fotos, 2 mapasGUYANA
The Tramways of Georgetown, British Guiana: text, map, 12 picturesHAITI
The Tramways of Haiti: Port-au-Prince - history, map, 18 photos
Les Tramways d'Haïti: Port-au-Prince - histoire, mapa, 18 fotos
JAMAICA
The Tramways of Kingston, Jamaica: history, map, 17 photos(page above recycled by Jamaicans.com) MEXICO
The Tramways of Mexico: introduction, geographical index Aguascalientes – tramway history, map, 3 photographs
Celaya – tramway history, map, 13 photographs Chihuahua – tramway history, map, 4 photographs Ciudad Juárez – tramway history, map, 8 photographs
Ciudad Juárez – unauthorized Spanish version Guadalajara – tramway history, map, 15 photographs Hidalgo del Parral – tramway history, map, 3 photographs Mexico City (a) – tramway history, map, 61 photographs
Mexico City (b) – "Streetcars in Mexico City in the 1950s" – video Monterrey – tramway history, map, 13 photographs
Monterrey – unauthorized and botched Spanish version of above Nuevo Laredo – tramway history, map, 4 photographs Pachuca – tramway history, map, 18 photographs Puebla – tramway history, map, 11 photographs
Puebla – new Tren Turístico: description, 24 photos Real de Catorce - railway history, 2 maps, 41 illustrations San Luis Potosí – tramway history, map, 11 photographs Tampico – tramway history, map, 13 photographs Torreón – tramway history, map, 28 photographs Tuxtepec – tramway history, map, 0 photographs Veracruz – tramway history, map, 21 photographs
Yucatán (a) – tramway history, 5 pages, 41 photographs
Yucatán (b) – survey by Louis Cerny in 1988 & 1989: 27 photos
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Animal-powered tramwaysin Atlixco, Cerritos, Cuernavaca, Guaymas, León, Mazatlán, Oaxaca, Orizaba, Pátzcuaro, Tapachula, Teotihuacán, Uruapan and Zamora
Mechanically-powered tramways in Alamo, Campeche, Guanajuato, Matamoros, Monclova, Querétaro, Tlaxcala, Toluca, Villahermosa
and Xalapa
Funeral Trams, 1870-1930 - 21 illustrations
Tramway maps of Aguascalientes / Celaya / Chihuahua / Ciudad Juárez / Guadalajara / Hidalgo del Parral / Mexico City (area) / Mexico City (milestones) / Monterrey / Nuevo Laredo / Pachuca / Puebla / Real de Catorce / San Luis Potosí / Tampico / Torreón-Lerdo / Tuxtepec / Veracruz (city) / Veracruz-Xalapa area / Yucatán PANAMA
The Tramways of Panama: Panama City - history, 19 pictures, 2 maps
Los Tranvías de Panamá: Ciudad de Panamá - historia, 18 fotos, 2 mapasPARAGUAY
The Tramways of Paraguay: Asunción - history, map, 36 photos
Los Tranvías de Paraguay: Asunción - historia, mapa, 36 fotos
Asunción - tramway: condom carPERU
The Tramways of Peru: Lima, Arequipa, others - texts, maps, 97 pictures
Tranvías en el Perú: Spanish-language version of above by Luis A. Ramírez
Cybertheft: my photos & map stolen by a Lima newspaper!
Arequipa - tramway history, map, 19 illustrations
Lima - tramway history, map, 71 illustrations
Lima - historia de sus tranvías, mapa, 69 ilustraciones
Lima (Barranco) - heritage tramway: text, 15 photographs
Lima - metro & tramway map
The Other Tramways of Peru: history, map, 23 illustrations
PUERTO RICO
Mayagüez - tramway history, map, 22 illustrations Ponce - tramway history, maps, 16 illustrations San Juan - tramway history, map, 33 photographs
San Juan - historia de sus tranvías, mapa, 33 fotografías
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO
The Trams & Trolleybuses of Trinidad & Tobago: text, 3 maps, 29 pictures
URUGUAY
pages from other sources, websites, documents, news articles, etc.
VENEZUELA
The Tramways of Venezuela: history, maps, 70 pix
Los Tranvías de Venezuela: historia, mapas, 70 fotos
Caracas - tramway history, 39 photos, satellite view, map
Caracas - historia del tranvía, 35 fotos, vista satelital, mapaCarúpano - tramway history, 7 photos, maps Carúpano - historia del tranvía, 7 fotos, mapas La Guaira & Caracas Railway – history, map, 24 illustrations Ferrocarril La Guaira y Caracas - historia, mapa, 23 ilustraciones Maiquetía, La Guaira & Macuto - tramway history, 18 photos, ma Maiquetía, La Guaira y Macuto - historia, 18 fotos, map Maracaibo - tramway history, 14 photos, 2 mapsMaracaibo - historia, 14 fotos, 2 mapasMérida, Venezuela - life and death of a great trolleybus system
Mérida - trolleybus system mapValencia - tramway history, 9 photos, map
Valencia - historia del tranvía, 8 fotos, mapaValencia - metro: 2 photos of first cars
As of 8/2018 this website has 1,594 pages, 4,107 illustrations and 347 maps.
It was launched on 11 July 1998 and celebrated its 21st birthday on 11 July 2018.
The author welcomes additions, corrections and suggestions. Please email me!
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