List of town tramway systems in Central America

This is a list of cities and towns in Central America that have, or once had, town tramway (urban tramway, or streetcar) systems as part of their public transport system.

Costa Rica edit

Name of System Location Traction
Type
Date (From) Date (To) Notes
  Cartago Animal ? ?  
Diesel ? ?  
  Guácimo Animal ? ?  
Diesel ? ?  
  Limón Animal ? ?  
  Penshurst Animal ? ?  
  San José Animal ? ?  
Electric 9 April 1899 1 August 1950  

El Salvador edit

Name of System Location Traction
Type
Date (From) Date (To) Notes
  San Salvador Horse ? ?  
Accumulator (storage battery) ? ?  
  ♦ San Salvador - Santa Tecla Accumulator (storage battery) 15 October 1920 1925 (?)  
  Sonsonate Horse ? ?  

Guatemala edit

Name of system Location Traction
type
Date (from) Date (to) Notes
  La Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción / Guatemala City Horse ? 1917  
Petrol (gasoline) 1918 ?  
Ferrocarril de los Altos San Felipe - Quetzaltenango Electric 30 March 1930 September 1933  

Honduras edit

Name of System Location Traction
Type
Date (From) Date (To) Notes
  Puerto Cortés Petrol (gasoline) ? ?  

Nicaragua edit

Name of System Location Traction
Type
Date (From) Date (To) Notes
  Bluefields Horse ? ?  
  Corinto Horse ? ?  
  Granada Horse ? ?  
  Rivas Horse ? ?  
  San Juan del Norte Horse ? ? Now San Juan de Nicaragua.

Panama edit

Name of System Location Traction
Type
Date (From) Date (To) Notes
  Colón Horse ? ?  
Accumulator (storage battery)     Construction started ca. 1910, not completed.
United Electric Tramways (1893–ca. 1900)

Panama Tramways (1913–1917)
Panama Electric (1917–1941)

Ciudad de Panamá
(Panama City)
Electric 1 October 1893

1 August 1913

ca. 1900

31 May 1941

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See also edit

References edit

Inline citations edit

  1. ^ Morrison, Allen (1 February 2008). "The Tramways of Panama City". tramz.com. Retrieved 2014-08-05.

Bibliography edit