[5] Years later, the steam railway, which began its activities in 1851,[1] between Lima and Callao was the second in South America, after Guyana, built in 1848.
On September 29, 1876, a new proposal for the construction of a Horsecar by Mariano Antonio Borda was approved, with a contract being signed with the Municipality of Lima on the same year.
[6] In 1910 four urban tram lines in Lima were reopened and the existing network was extended as follows:[9] In October 1924, during the second government of Augusto B. Leguía, a strike took place that temporarily paralyzed the system.
[6][8] A Remembrance Wagon was officially inaugurated by Prime Minister Alberto Pandolfi, on the Avenida Pedro de Osma [es], in Barranco, on the night of August 22, 1997, when a group of workers from the former CNT started it up, immediately carrying out the first trip.
[7] Another trolley built in 1870 that began its service on September 10, 1909, being part of the Lima–Guadalupe route, was auctioned off in 2001 by the Empresa Nacional de Ferrocarriles del Perú and bought by José Jaime Elías Pérez, who converted the wagon into the Expreso Virgen de Guadalupe restaurant, currently located close to the Municipality of Barranco and the main square of the district.