The old Baldwin 2-8-0 (built in 1897), is conserver into the "Museo del Ferrocarril Guatemala".

Morning at Zacapa. The daily train to the El Salvador border pulls out of the station. The Guatemala Division of the IRCA had been nationalized two years before, but the private owners still ran t... (more)

The former International Railways of Central America had fallen on hard times, and the Guatemala Division was nationalized in 1968 as the Ferrocarriles de Guatemala. The IRCA had almost completed... (more)

Our Central America Rail Tours special heads out of Guatemala City across Las Vacas bridge toward Zacapa. Riding the boxcar tops across Las Vacas was more than a little exciting.

The daily "pasajero" from Puerto Barrios to Guatemala City pauses for lunch at Zacapa. This was once an express train complete with parlor car service, and the lunch room at the Hotel Ferrocarril ... (more)

In 1970 when this picture was taken, this was probably the last major backshop in North America to overhaul steam engines on a regular basis. The former IRCA shops in Guatemala City were relativ... (more)

Just another of the many high bridges on the former IRCA line from Guatemala City to Puerto Barrios. This was a photo runby on a Central American Rail Tours special. Sad to say service over this... (more)

A Central American Rail Tours charter heads south on the Fegua (ex-IRCA) Pacific Division from Tecun Uman on the Mexican border to Escuintla. Interestingly, the timetable direction was north, dri... (more)

The Guatemala City to Puerto Barrios passenger departs Sanarate. Only a few years prior this train would have been diesel hauled, but a shortage of cash for imported diesel spares forced first th... (more)

During a brief water stop at Palin during a charter on the Ferrocarriles de Guatemala (ex-IRCA) we discovered the section foreman had left one of these wonderful contraptions parked at the station... (more)

A Puerto Barrios bound train departs Guatemala City over the impressive "Viaduct of the Cows", the highest and longest bridge of the many impressive bridges on the scenic three foot gauge former I... (more)

Fegua 181 doubleheads with road engine 204 leaving Escuintla for the climb up the 3.7 percent (ruling) grade to Palin Pass enroute Guatemala City. Both engines are postwar products of Baldwin. T... (more)

One of the Ipala Loops. When the International Railways of Central America (IRCA) built a line to connect Guatemala to El Salvador in the 1920's, it kept the grade over the mountains to about 2 p... (more)

Lunch simmers on the backhead while this Fegua crew drives their Baldwin mike up the 2.8 per cent grade between Zacapa and the El Salvador border. The johnson bar looks to be pretty far into the ... (more)

The morning passenger train to Puerto Barrios (running as a mixto) crosses the Las Vacas viaduct leaving Guatemala City. One of the many volcanos surrounding Guatemala City is framed by the bridg... (more)