Juan Celorio

• Got the railroading bug at age 6 when his dad gave him an HO train set
• Attempted his first layout as a teenager
• Is a member of Museo de los Ferrocarriles de Yucatán (Yucatan Railway Museum) in Merida and hosts their website
• Was recently involved in buying a 1:1 scale ex-ATSF EMD F7 for restoring
• At the museum will be building a layout in a passenger car
• Favorite road - Mexican Railroads!
• APN's second international member, Juan's primary residence is in Mexico City, Mexico

Juan at the controls of NdeM 5700, an Alco C420 that is still operable at the Merida RR Museum

The Museum had started building a layout, but
the Passenger Car needs restoration first! 
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Checking builder's plate information at "Terminal Valle de Mexico" on a UP SD70ACe that was built and assembled in Mexico

Motivational "Message to Garcia" story.

Available here as an MP3 file for your iPod,
as dramatized in the September 14, 1953
episode of the radio program Suspense!
starring Richard Widmark

Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Mexico (NdeM) GA8a #5427

Ferrocarril y Terminal del Valle de México (FTVM) SW1504 #8845

Lourdes and Juan Celorio at a Tequila mini-bottle reunion in St. Louis