Great!
Guatemala only had "narrow gauge" railroads, and thus I never got to see large size engines or locos; there were however, many steam locomotives and later, diesel-electric engines operated by the National Railway company. and also by the United Fruit Company.
I used to go to a city called Bananera, in the Departamento of Izabal, where the United Fruit Co. had concentrated all of their non-usable steam locomotives; I recall seeing easily upwards of 30 of them, just rusting away, during the early 1970s.
These coordinates, point to a roundhouse in the city of Zacapa, in Eastern Guatemala, where there used to be at least four Baldwin locomotives left abandoned here:
14 59'04.65" N
89 32'40.40 W
This second set of coordinates, are for the Central Depot (Estacion Central) in Guatemala City, a semi-abandoned yard, with a museum and lots of very old and abandoned passenger and cargo wagons:
14 37'40.46" N
90 30'43.63 W
The Semi-defunct railway company in Guatemala, is or was called FEGUA (Ferrocarriles de Guatemala = Guatemalan Railways)
This video link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8ZsEJ_7 ... re=related
shows some of the stock at the museum, and the music is a composition named Ferrocarril de los Altos, which was in the 1930s an electric railway built by German Capital, and quickly destroyed upon the onset of WW-II when the German properties were seized by the government and German citizens were either deported for concentration camps in the USA, or as it was in the case of my great aunt and her husband, they made it back to Germany.
Here are some of the old Guatemalan railroad pix I have found:
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 878&nseq=4
http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?6,893056
http://www.steam.demon.co.uk/trains/guat003.htm
Saludos,
Tulio - Junkologist : )
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