Knowing the Museum of the Railways Mexico City

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Hello, very good afternoon, today we are going to take a short tour of the Mexico City Railroad Museum. I will stop by the Casa La Villa dating from the 1907s, it is a part of the metro station the Villa inside is full. From memories of the time it is a beautiful place that if you are in Mexico City, you can not stop coming.

Starting the journey I find this wagon, very well persevering and preserved despite the years. It's very striking color which I loved also made me travel through time, in my imagination I could do it as they did. Our ancestors or grandparents in their time.

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An old locomotive very well cared for and preserved, striking is one of the attractions of this park that I show you today. This is getting to know part of my country and its attractions, since I also don't know much about some other parks and states do not .. So the world and its towns but I invite you to meet and travel with me.

According to what I have read this train traveled to Veracruz, as I said I would die as an experiment. Even once traveling by rail, they say it is very slow and hot, traveling in one, but I would like it to be once to live this opportunity to take a trip. It is not like traveling on a subway train than one on steam.

To get an idea, traveling on this railway to Veracruz can take you more than 20 hours. And its unparalleled landscapes was until 1990 when it stopped working, since it was very slow and obsolete, I would give life to myself by taking photos. I would be very happy to show much more landscapes around me.

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Steam locomotive looks like it was from a movie, the Veracruz railroad by Sue Moreno from pilot in black and white. Color films did not exist yet, something crazy, but very creative as always, something crazy in every adventure. What we do I always invent something out of the ordinary.

The Museo de los Ferrocarrileros is located to the north of Mexico City in the facilities occupied by the La Villa railway station. Opened in 2006, the exhibition shows the history of the railroads in Mexico, the history of the La Villa train station, as well as different social movements of the railroads in the history of Mexico. It belongs to the Ministry of Culture of the Mexico City.

Fireless" Locomotive

One of the main pieces of the museum's heritage is the Fireless locomotive, which is unique in the country, it is a pressure steam locomotive that was built by the Davenport Locomotive Works company in the United States [4]. The locomotive was acquired in the 1940s by PEMEX, to carry out movements in the railway yards and supply fuel tank cars at the Azcapotzalco Ex-refinery. It stopped working in the 90s with the closure of the refinery and was in the PEMEX warehouses in Azcapotzalco until August 3, 2014 when it was donated to the museum through an agreement signed with the Federal District Government. The steam with which it worked was produced by an external electric generator, since it lacks a stove, hence it is called "without fire."

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