Cazadero and San Pablo Railroad was a ,

narrow gauge A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than standard . Most narrow-gauge railways are between and . Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with tighter curves, smaller structu ...

line built in 1896 as the ''Ferrocarril Cazadero La Torre y Tepetongo'' from an interchange with the Mexican Central Railroad (''Ferrocarril Central Mexicano'' -- ''

Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México (better known as N de M and especially in its final years as FNM) was Mexico's state owned railroad company from 1938 to 1998, and prior to 1938 (dating from the regime of Porfirio Díaz), a major railroad con ...

'' after 1909) at Cazadero La Torre southwest through Nado to the sawmill community of San Pablo in ''

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service began to Nado in 1897. The line was reorganized as the ''Ferrocarril Cazadero y Solis'' in 1906. Lumbering and railroad operations were suspended during the

Mexican Revolution The Mexican Revolution ( es, Revolución Mexicana) was an extended sequence of armed regional conflicts in Mexico from approximately 1910 to 1920. It has been called "the defining event of modern Mexican history". It resulted in the destruction ...

; but the line resumed operations in 1922 as the ''Ferrocarril Cazadero y San Pablo''. of logging branches were constructed around San Pablo. The forests were completely harvested, and operations ceased after

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. Three locomotives surviving the revolution were sold to sugar plantations, but rails remained in place for another decade.

Locomotives

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* * {{reflist Defunct railway companies of Mexico 2 ft gauge railways in Mexico Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México Railway lines opened in 1900 Railway companies established in 1896