While we were in Mexico City over the weekend I had a chance to get in a little railfanning. We went out to a place about 13 miles north of the city, in an industrial area, where the main line tracks pass through. It’s called Lecheria. There wasn’t a huge amount of action on Saturday morning, but enough for me to get a few decent shots.
Here’s FTVM (basically the Mexico City belt line that handles all inbound and outbound traffic, classification yards, and local industry service) #9138 really smoking it up. I’m led to believe it’s a U33B, but I’m open for correction on that (as I am on almost all my diseasel i.d.’s). It’s ex-FNM, and still wearing the 2 tone blue “smurf” paint scheme of FNM. It’s doing some local switching.
Here’s a northbound FerroMex freight coming out of Mexico City (we’re at Km 21 here). Note the old overhead catenary lines. Dates back to an unsuccessful experiment at electrification back in the early 90’s.
On the point of that train was FerroMex C30 Super-7R #3749, also ex-FNM (as are all the locomotives in this series of shots), although repainted in the FerroMex Green, Red and White.
Soon after we caught another northbound, this time with FerroMex C30 Super-7R # 3725, leading an unrepainted ex-FNM unit, that I also think is a Super-7.
And a better shot of #3725 itself. Although it looks almost black, that’s really green.
At this point, we also have a single line that brings FerroSur trains from the southeast part of the country into the Valley of Mexico. Here’s FerroSur #9605