Ferrocarriles Unidos del Sureste Alco S6 105 at Merida, Yucatan, February 23, 1975. Photographer: Bob Wily.
This engine was built as Chihuahua al Pacifico 60 in January, 1956. It was later renumbered CHP 106.
It became Ferrocarril de Sureste 105, then became FUS 105 in the 1975 merger.
(Craig Garver, https://www.flickr.com/photos/digitalrailartist/51521879868/in/dateposted/, Public domain)
FERROCARRILES UNIDOS DE SURESTE
Ferrocarriles Unidos del Sureste was a company that operated a railroad in southeastern Mexico. In the 1930s the Mexican government decided to build a railroad into the Yucatán, connecting the national system with the isolated Ferrocarriles Unidos de Yucatán. The project was completed in 1950 as the Ferrocarril del Sureste and commemorated with a 5 peso coin. In 1975 the Yucatán and Southeast systems were merged into the Ferrocarriles Unidos del Sureste. The system was privatized in 1999, becoming part of Ferrocarriles Chiapas-Mayab (FCCM) until 2007 and since part of Ferrocarril del Istmo de Tehuantepec.
Ferrocarril del Sureste 5 peso coin, 1950.
(W. Lenheim Collection)
Ferrocarriles Unidos de Sureste Alco S6 No. 110 at Merida, Yucatan, February 22, 1975. Photographer: Bob Wily.
(Craig Garver, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons)
Ferrocarriles Unidos del Sureste system map.
This is a system map for the Tenosique and Merida Divisions from employee timetable No. 2, September 13, 1978.
(Craig Garver, Public domain, https://www.flickr.com/photos/digitalrailartist/51661247294/)
Ferrocarriles Unidos del Sureste (FUS) Alco S6 103 at Empalme, Sonora, Mexico,
on lease to the Ferrocarril del Pacifico, November 26, 1982. Photographer: Steve Gartner.
(Craig Garver, https://www.flickr.com/photos/digitalrailartist/51568634277/, Public domain.)
Gran Parque La Plancha, Mérida, Yucatán.
FUS locomotive No. 510 on static display at La Plancha Park, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico.
(Inri, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons)