Cazadero and San Pablo Railroad was a , narrow gauge line built in 1896 as the Ferrocarril Cazadero La Torre y Tepetongo from an interchange with the Mexican Central Railroad (Ferrocarril Central Mexicano -- Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México after 1909) at Cazadero La Torre southwest through Nado to the sawmill community of San Pablo in Estado de México.
Passenger service began to Nado in 1897. The line was reorganized as the Ferrocarril Cazadero y Solis in 1906.
Lumbering and railroad operations were suspended during the Mexican Revolution; but the line resumed operations in 1922 as the Ferrocarril Cazadero y San Pablo. of logging branches were constructed around San Pablo. The forests were completely harvested, and operations ceased after World War II.
Three locomotives surviving the revolution were sold to sugar plantations, but rails remained in place for another decade.
Locomotives
NumberBuilderTypeDateWorks numberNotes1Orenstein & Koppel 1936Vendida a Ferrocarril Cementero Cruz Azul2Baldwin Locomotive Works3Baldwin Locomotive Works8/1896149924Baldwin Locomotive Works4/189614798sold Ignacio San Francisco #4 rebuilt to gauge5Baldwin Locomotive Works4/189614799sold Ignacio San Francisco #5 rebuilt to gauge6Baldwin Locomotive Works8/189614976sold Compania La Primavera #17Baldwin Locomotive Works5/189715327similar design to Sandy River Railroad #6 and #7 (2nd #2 & 2nd #3)
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