Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México
Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México was Mexico's state owned railroad company from 1938 to 1998, and prior to 1938, a major railroad controlled by the government that linked Mexico City to the major cities of Ciudad Juárez, Nuevo Laredo and Matamoros on the U.S. border. The first trains to Nuevo Laredo from Mexico City began operating in 1903.
An N de M passenger train at Mexico City in the 1960s, the Torre Insignia in the background
Share of the National Railways of Mexico, issued 9. May 1910
N de M ALCO C424 8129 leads a train in Esperanza in 1966
Lázaro Cárdenas del Río was a Mexican army officer and politician who served as president of Mexico from 1934 to 1940. Previously, he served as a general in the Constitutional Army during the Mexican Revolution and as Governor of Michoacán and President of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He later served as the Secretary of National Defence. During his presidency, which is considered the end of the Maximato, he implemented massive land reform programs, led the expropriation of the country's oil industry, and implemented many left-leaning reforms.
Lázaro Cárdenas, 1934
Cárdenas in the Constitutional Army, c.1913
General Lázaro Cárdenas
Cárdenas decrees nationalization of foreign railways in 1937.