I’ve been passing the Museo de los Ferrocarriles de Yucatan (Train Museum of the Yucatan) as I go to and from downtown for over a week and today I dropped in for a visit. To get a small idea of how loud this first thing is I suggest you crank up the volume:

Here’s some of the many photos I took there today:

This is the oldest train car in Mexico. Admittedly, it needs a little work:

Row after row, every car type is well represented. By Pullman and GM and GE. And by Canada’s Hawker-Siddely.

A couple, including the one behind the oldest one above, have been primed and due to get a new livery.

(some day)

I decided to take one for a spin

so I opened the throttles all the way

but then got a look at the other side of the controls.

Some of their insides are accessible too. Including this old beauty by Pullman:

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Others, in various stages of decay and restoration:

And a look at a First Class compartment that reminded me of “North By Northwest” (though I hope theirs smelled better):

those sinks and toilets used to fold up and a folding wall would open divide that into two compartments.

And few random items in closing:

And amidst the debris and decay, life and beauty: