Talk:Xochimilco Light Rail
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[edit] length?
Okay, 37 minutes, but how many km? -- Geo Swan 04:21, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Older line
The Xochimilco streetcar line far predates the time given in your entry. I lived near the line (actually, right off of the Tlalpan line that branched off at Estadio Azteca) in 1984 just prior to it's shutdown for rebuilding. The two lines were the last remnants of the DF's once extensive streetcar network. They used PCC cars designed and built in the USA in the 1930's, some of which were purchased second-hand as US cities discontinued streetcar service (at least some had come from Minneapolis).
In 1984-85 the service was halted and the right-of-way stripped down to the subroadbed and rebuilt to light rail status. Concurrently, the PCC cars were stripped to their frames, re-worked into articulated units, and placed within new carbodies. It was these that were replaced in the 1990's.
As a side note: the PCC was the first mass production streetcar in the world. It was the genesis for all of the modern light rail vehicles used worldwide. It's reliability is attested to by the fact that units are still operating over a short line in Boston, Mass. USA, without the benefit of indoor repair shop (running repairs are made in a pit at the Mattapan terminus).
-- CAM, 1 Sept. 2006
