Glory Days of Pullman Passenger Trains in Mexico

This is the first in a series of blogs on the Mexican railway service.

Buena Vista Terminal 1970s.

• These are scenes of Buena Vista Terminal in Mexico City and school children visiting on a morning sometime in the early 1970s.
• Buena Vista was built in 1961, replacing the older terminal.
• It was vast and modern.

School children walking down the platform to the front of the train.

When I could, in the early 1970s, I traveled by train in Mexico. This was arranged around business visits to Mexico City, seeing my uncle who had retired to Taxco and a cousin who lived in Cuernavaca.

School children visiting the trains.

• I took many photos of the station, trains, passengers, workers, etc. over a couple of years.

Children on the platform.

• Train service in Mexico was very good and inexpensive.
• They had streamliners with Pullman sleeping car services, diners, lounges, chair, and observation cars.

Children on the platform and visiting the engine.

• Much of the equipment was only a couple of decades old and had been bought from major American railways after Amtrak took over passenger service in the U.S.