List of town tramway systems in Central America

This is a list of cities and towns in Central America that have, or once had, town tramway (urban tramway, or streetcar) systems as part of their public transport system. Other geographic regions:

Costa Rica

Name of System Location Traction
Type
Date (From) Date (To) Notes
  Cartago Animal ? ?  
Diesel ? ?  
  Guácimo Animal ? ?  
Diesel ? ?  
  Limón Animal ? ?  
  Penshurst Animal ? ?  
  San José Animal ? ?  
Electric 9 April 1899 1 August 1950  

El Salvador

Name of System Location Traction
Type
Date (From) Date (To) Notes
  San Salvador Horse ? ?  
Accumulator (storage battery) ? ?  
  ♦ San Salvador - Santa Tecla Accumulator (storage battery) 15 October 1920 1925 (?)  
  Sonsonate Horse ? ?  

Guatemala

Name of system Location Traction
type
Date (from) Date (to) Notes
  La Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción / Guatemala City Horse ? 1917  
Petrol (gasoline) 1918 ?  
Ferrocarril de los Altos San Felipe - Quetzaltenango Electric 30 March 1930 September 1933  

Honduras

Name of System Location Traction
Type
Date (From) Date (To) Notes
  Puerto Cortés Petrol (gasoline) ? ?  

Nicaragua

Name of System Location Traction
Type
Date (From) Date (To) Notes
  Bluefields Horse ? ?  
  Corinto Horse ? ?  
  Granada Horse ? ?  
  Rivas Horse ? ?  
  San Juan del Norte Horse ? ? Now San Juan de Nicaragua.

Panama

Main article: Trams in Panama
Name of System Location Traction
Type
Date (From) Date (To) Notes
  Colón Horse ? ?  
Accumulator (storage battery)     Construction started ca. 1910, not completed.
United Electric Tramways (1893ca. 1900)

Panama Tramways (19131917)
Panama Electric (19171941)

Ciudad de Panamá
(Panama City)
Electric 1 October 1893

1 August 1913

ca. 1900

31 May 1941

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References

Inline citations

  1. Morrison, Allen (1 February 2008). "The Tramways of Panama City". tramz.com. Retrieved 2014-08-05.

Bibliography

See also

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