Streetcars in Mexico City

[2] In 1868 the "Ferrocarril de Chalco" opened a second street railway to Tacubaya along Avenida Chapultepec.

[3] The Ferrocarril de Tacubaya opened a second line to Popotla, near the Calzada México-Tacuba (Tacuba causeway).

[2] The Compañía de Ferrocarriles del Distrito Federal, organized in 1878, began to install lines for animal-powered street railways including one in the Calzada de Tlalpan (Tlalpan Causeway),[3] and controlled street railway lines until 1901.

[3] Lines ran north as far as Tlalnepantla, as far south as Tlalpan, as far east as Peñón de los Baños.

[3] In 1896 the then-municipal government of Mexico City (the Ayuntamiento de México) authorized the Federal District Railways to change from animal to electric power.

[4] Animal-powered street railways would continue to operate in the city along with electric streetcars for another thirty years.

Zócalo square and the Metropolitan Cathedral in 1900. Note the streetcars and station in front.
Opening ceremony for the city's first electric streetcar line
The "Cerito" streetcar. It served the "Historic Circuit" tourist route created in 1971. [ 6 ]