>>1370596It's awesome how in the early 20th century many tram companies actually built their own rolling stock, probably cannibalizing some older units for mechanical parts. Unthinkable nowadays with everything just being faggy tenderings.
This tram was built or rebuilt in Mexico City by its own tramway company in the 1950s. In those days the Mexico City trams must have felt like a rolling tramway museum, with trams bought second hand from loads of US cities, reconstructions of their own trams from the early 20th century, and trams build entirely at its own shops. The last time new trams were bought in Mexico City was in 1927, with exception of one single PCC tram bought new in 1946, the only american-style PCC ever bought new outside the US and Canada. Mexico City would eventually buy dozens of second hand PCCs which ran until the system's closure in 1978 (with PCCs running on the still extant Xochimilco Light Rail line until 1984).
