Preserved Standard Gauge Steam in Mexico 2012, Part 2

Thomas Kautzor reports on some preserved items recorded during his November 2012 visit. Click here for the index to the other reports which include stationary steam, 'modern traction' and railway cranes.

This report is in three parts, click here for part 1 or click here for part 3 (updated 20th January 2018).

This page continues coverage of surviving non-NdeM standard gauge steam.

Although NdeM received its first diesels in 1944, in 1946 32 4-8-4 steam locomotives were ordered from ALCO (3025-32 & 3049-56) and Baldwin (3033-48). These QR-1 class were to be known as “Niagras”. N°. 3046 was the last NdeM steam locomotive to be overhauled at the Aguascalientes shops in 09-1963 and the "Niagras" were taken off the roster with the end of NdeM steam in 1965.

NdeM 3031 (ALCO 74386/1946) is privately owned by Engineer Francisco Moreno Lagunes and stored at a yard in Huehuetoca, MEXICO

NdeM 3033 (Baldwin 73018/07-1946) is on display at the former station, now a cultural centre, in Pachuca, HIDALGO

NdeM 3034 (Baldwin 73019/1946) is on display at National Railway Museum in Puebla, PUE

NdeM 3035 (Baldwin 73020/1946) is plinthed at the Rodolfo Landeros Park in Aguascalientes, AGS

NdeM 3036 (Baldwin 73021/1946) is on display at the Explora Science Park in Leon, GUANAJUATO, together with sleeping coach 177 “Lago di Chalco” and a caboose

NdeM 3038 (Baldwin 73023/1946) is on display at the Museo Technologico (MUTEC), Chapultepec Park, in Mexico City, DF, together with three coaches from the presidential train

NdeM 3040 (Baldwin 73025/1946) is on display next to the main road (CF 129) through Oriental, PUEBLA

NdeM 3056 (ALCO 74832/1946) is stored at the Bernal station, near Tequisquiapan, QUERETARO.

Of the survivors above, N°. 3031/5/6/40/56 were formerly stored at NdeM’s Huehuetoca scrap yard north of Mexico City. In addition to the above, 3027 (ALCO 74382/08-1946) is on display in Guadalajara, 3030 (ALCO 74385/1946) in Zacatecas and 3039 (Baldwin 73024/1946, also ex-Huehuetoca) in Monterrey, while N°. 3028 (ALCO 74383/08-1946), which was sold to the Great North Eastern Railroad Foundation, Inc. in the US in 1966, is undergoing a very slow restoration at the New Hope & Ivyland RR in Pennsylvania.

Click here for 'Preserved Standard Gauge Steam in Mexico 2012, Part 3'