Re: Guatemala 1946

I can tell you that the first clip is most certainly Guatemala, on the Pacific Division. Engine 124 was a heavy 2-8-0 assigned there and the footage of 4-6-0 100 I consider quite rare. That rear of her tender showing the number was being used as part of a makeshift fence in Zacapa when I saw it in 1971!
The second clip looks to be Guatemala also and the only place that you'd see standard gauge cars would be at the frontier town of Tecun Uman where there was an NdeM yard. I suspect that the bags of coffee were transloaded there.
Ironic that sister 4-6-0 99 was still being used to sometimes switch at Tecun Uman as late as 1977, perhaps the last FEGUA steamer to see actual revenue service.
Priceless footage, thanks.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/29/2010 03:13PM by Tom Moungovan.