Nacionales de Mexico Baldwin AS616 6811 at Tlalnepantla, Distrito Federal, Mexico, March 1, 1975. Photographer: James C Herold. Scanned from a 35mm negative owned by Digital Rail Artist. By 1975 the Baldwins were living on borrowed time, and retirement was imminent.
Nacionales de Mexico Alco S1 5002 at San Luis Potosi, San Luis Potosi, Mexico, March 6, 1975. Photographer: Keith Ardinger. Scanned from a 35mm Kodachrome side owned by Digital Rail Artist. This unit was built in September, 1944, part of an order for five all built the same month. Diesel numbering on NdeM started at 5000 to clear the highest blocks assigned to steam. These were the only S1's ever owned by NdeM. These units were delivered with exhaust stacks that were flush with the roof of the hood - and 34 years later, they were still gaging crews with exhaust in the cab!
Nacionales de Mexico Alco RS11 7222 at Nogales, Sonora, on the Ferrocarril del Pacifico, January 18, 1976. Photographer: Thomas Chenoweth
Nacionales de Mexico Alco RS11 7238 at San Luis Potosi, San Luis Potosi, Mexico, January 5, 1974. Photographer: Paul Hunnell. Scanned from a 35mm Kodachrome slide owned by Digital Rail Artist
Ferrocarril del Pacifico GE U23B 538 at Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, March 26, 1976. Photographer: Thomas Chenowith. Scanned from a 35mm Kodachrome slide owned by Digital Rail Artist.
Nacionales de Mexico EMD GP18 7504 at San Luis Potosi, San Luis Potosi, Mexico, March 7, 1975. Photographer: James C Herold. Scanned from a 35mm Kodachrome slide owned by Digital Rail Artist. This unit was built in June, 1961, as part of a the first order for 20 units, NdeM 7500-7519. NdeM owned a total of 37 bought over the next year. Class DE-25, EMD 26729, June, 1961, order number 700122
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Wearing it's first paint scheme, designed by EMD, the new locomotive is ready to begin it's journey. John Kirchner Collection.
Ferrocarril del Pacifico Alco S6 720 at Guadalajara, Jalisco, January 22, 1965. Photographer: R W Bierman. Scanned from a 2 1/4 x 4 1/4 negative owned by Digital Rail Artist.
Nacionales de Mexico Alco S3 5506, date, location, and photographer unknown. Scanned from a 2 1/4 x 4 1/4 contact print owned by Digital Rail Artist. This unit is part of the NdeM's first order, for ten units, 5000-5009, delivered in August, 1944. The railroad would place two more orders, for a total of 23. NdeM owned few switchers: five S1's, a lone S6, in a two-unit order split with the Chihuahua al Pacifico, these 23 S2's, and eight S4's. The crew is obviously proud of their engine, and a young barefoot boy has gratefully accepted the chance to see the cab. A budding railfan? A future maquinista, perhaps? How many railroad careers started this way? Dating this photo is difficult. This paint scheme lasted well into the mid-1970's, long after olive and red/orange was standard. The pickup behind the truck might be a clue, but that just dates the earliest time. It was still possible to see trucks like that well into early 70's as well. Look carefully at the cab. That's no airhorn above the windshield, but a whistle! The paint scheme is a bit different from the other zebra striped units I posted earlier. While the frame and battery box stripes are the same, those on the end of the hood are narrower and the chevron don't continue all the way to the top of the hood. The pilot is black, too, and is missing stripes entirely. Clearly grade crossing accidents led to more and wider end stripes.
An old wood coach found a new life as a yard office from the late 60's to the late 90's, in 1994 half of the office was still in service. Raymundo Collada photo.
Ferrocarril Sonora Baja California.
Ferrocarril del Pacifico Alco S6 702 at Schenectady, New York, June, 1955, in a builder photo. Scanned from an 8x10 photographic print owned by Digital Rail Artist. Ferrocarril del Pacifico Alco S6 702 FCP Alco S6 702
