SITEUR opened a second, east-west route, also underground, in 1994.

Both the light rail lines and the trolleybus system are still going strong in 2003.

In addition to the books and articles listed below, the author is indebted to Foster M. Palmer of Massachusetts

and Luis Len Torrealba of Mexico City for the invaluable information that they provided about urban transportation in Guadalajara. Seor Len rode the trams there in the 1930s and 40s, drew maps of the routes and collected historical data. He was perhaps the first genuine tramway enthusiast in Latin America.

BIBLIOGRAPHY(in orderof publication) "El Material Rodante y Propulsor para una Va" in Mexico Moderno (Mxico), 10/1906, p. 46. Announcement of the McGuire Cummings contract to build Guadalajara's first electric trams. "Electric Equipment Ordered in 1906" in Electric Railway Review (Chicago), January 1907, lists the trams that McGuire Cummings Co. will build for Guadalajara. Illustrated articles about Guadalajara trams built by Stephenson, Brill and American Car Co. in Brill [or Brill's] Magazine of 7/ 1907, 135; 8/1908, 177-181; 9/1910, 264265; and 6/1916, 180-182. Directorio del Estado de Jalisco, 1912. Guadalajara tramway itineraries, pp. 106-107. An unnumbered page has an advertisement by the Agencia de Inhumaciones de Alberto Reneaum for "El Servicio Elctrico de Carros Funbres" (electric funeral car service), with an illustration of a motorized funeral car.

Ignacio Saldaa. Plano de la Ciudad de Guadalajara. Guadalajara, 1919. Good map of the tramway lines in the city center. Jos T. Laris. Guadalajara de las Indias. Guadalajara, 1945. Tramway development, pp. 37-39. J. Jesus Martnez Vallejo. 100 Aos de Actividad Social en la Fbrica La Experiencia. Guadalajara, 1951. Streetcar and bus service to La Experiencia textile mill, pp. 46-49. Enrique Francisco Camarena Martnez. Narraciones Tapatas, 1900-1950. Guadalajara, 1953. A 4-volume collection of newspaper columns. "La Inauguracin de los Trenes Elctricos" in vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 47-55, contains valuable information, as does a discussion of abandonments in vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 218-219. "Guadalajara System Opens!" in Trolley Coach News, Louisville, no. 38 (Winter 1976-1977), pp. 2, 21-27. Inauguration of the trolleybus system. Jos Mara Muria. Historia de Jalisco. Guadalajara, 1982. Tramway history in vol. 4, pp. 167-170. Quotes Camarena (1953). Rodolfo Snchez Gmez. El Transporte Colectivo de Pasajeros en la Zona Metropolitana de Guadalajara. Guadalajara, 1983. "LRT Developments in Mexico" in Mass Transit (Washington, DC), June 1989, pp. 16-22. Development of the Tren Elctrico Urbano.

Steve Morgan. Excellent series of articles, with photos and maps, about the trolleybus system in Trolleybus Magazine (England) nos. 173 (9-10/1990), pp. 104-115; 208 (78/1996), pp. 89-96; and 209 (9-10, 1996), 110-118. Francisco Javier Uribe Topete. "Los Transportes de los Tapatos" in vol. 1, pp. 107-238, of Captulos de Historia de la Ciudad de Guadalajara. Guadalajara, 1992. Good tramway history; "Tranvas Elctricos" section quotes Camarena (1953). Bernardo Carlos Casas. Estampas de Tlaquepaque. Guadalajara, 1994. Nice photos of an electric tram and of the trolleybus inauguration in 1977. Sistema de Tren Elctrico Urbano. Official website of the light rail system: history, map, photos, etc. Tren Ligero. Another site about the light rail system: history, photos, better map.

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