Tacubaya Railroad was a one-mile-long line serving an amusement park in the Tacubaya

Tacubaya

Tacubaya is a section of Mexico City located in the west in the Miguel Hidalgo borough. The area has been inhabited since before the Christian era, with its name coming from Nahuatl meaning “where water is gathered.” From the colonial period to the beginning of the 20th century, Tacubaya was...

 district of Mexico City

Mexico City

Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

. The line was built by Fernando de Teresa in 1896. Passengers were carried in several designs of roofed cars approximately 5 meters long. The locomotives were smaller than those used at Disneyland. The first locomotive was based on Decauville

Decauville

The Decauville manufacturing company was founded by Paul Decauville , a French pioneer in industrial railways. Decauville's major innovation was the use of ready-made sections of light, narrow gauge track fastened to steel sleepers; this track was portable and could be disassembled and transported...

 equipment, and the 6-ton 4-4-0 was the smallest ever built by Baldwin for commercial purposes. The line was converted to part of Mexico City's standard-gauge electric tramway system in 1910.

Locomotives

Number	Builder	Type	Date	Works number	Notes
1	Krauss	0-4-0T	1896
2	Baldwin Locomotive Works Baldwin Locomotive Works The Baldwin Locomotive Works was an American builder of railroad locomotives. It was located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, originally, and later in nearby Eddystone, Pennsylvania. Although the company was very successful as a producer of steam locomotives, its transition to the production of...	4-4-0	1897	15241	named Susana