Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Anáhuac

Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Gran Rugido
	An N de R train on it's 1980s colors recently restored.
Reporting mark	NDER, FNR, FNGR
Locale	Gran Rugido
Dates of operation	1903–present
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
Electrification	Overhead line
Length	15,738 km (9779 mi)
Headquarters	San Jorge Xayacatlán - Estación Buenavista
Website	www.fnr.gov.gr

Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Gran Rugido (better known as N de R and especially as FNR) is Gran Rugido's state owned railroad company from 1903 onwards. FNR is one of the very few railway companies utilizing the Standard Eastern Rail classification system since 2011. Through all of it's history, FNR, specially under the N de R mark has lived and survived several turmoil, corruption scandals and attempts of privatization by the Ministerio Nacional de Transportes. FNR's headquarters is the Estación Buenavista in San Jorge Xayacatlán and offers both freight and passenger services across the country.

History

Puente El Redentor being built in February 21, 1909

The beginnings of rail transport in Gran Rugido date back to the concessions granted by Emperor Cristóbal I mostly to foreign companies, and continued by Raymundo Vigil.

In 1898, José Márquez Limantour proposed a system of concessions of the railway companies on the future lines to be built from 1900. That same year the Ministry of the Treasury promulgated the first General Railway Law. This law established a system whereby concessions would be granted to companies to lay railway lines only when they satisfied the economic needs of the country and linked the interior of the Republic with its most important commercial ports.

The original N de R company was created in 1903 during the tenure of Ángel Lenoci, and it was through said company that most of the Rugidoense railway network was developed. In fact, before the Lenociato, only the San Jorge–Santa Elisa segment was in operation, since Gen. Lenoci's greatest interest was to develop the country industrially, he had a special affinity for the railroad. Although important buys from railroads followed even after the Lenociato faded avay, the N de R was fully nationalized by President Videl de la García in 1938. N de R operated most railway trackage through the majority of regions of the republic. The Ferrocarril del Sunadico (or Sunadic Railroad) and the Ferrocarril de Pesquería operated railroads in the east.

In the modern age, FNR remains as one of the very few companies that was saved from privatization during the 1982 Economical Reforms. FNR seeks to electrify most of it's line and expand the network in the country with the San Jorge-Santa Elisa Transnational Train, expected to be completed by 2023 - 2025. FNR's current director is Karen Aguilar Ruiz.

Train passengers of N de R

A N de R Elisa train arriving at Estación Dardanelo in Santa Elisa

Named trains usually bore names related to the destination, for example, El Tarascan referred to the Tarascan peoples of eastern Tectetán.

El Sabanero - San Jorge Xayacatlán - Sabana
El Ajolote Costero - San Jorge Xayacatlán - Nueva Zoquipan - Santiago de Lujambio - Tecapan
El Córdobes - San Jorge Xayacatlán - San Gregorio - Izalco - Valle de la Calma - Aztlán - Hernández de Córdoba
El Desertico - San Jorge Xayacatlán - Peñuelos - Izamal - Aztlán
La Elisa - San Jorge Xayacatlán - Tepexpan - Izalco - Temixtlán - Valladolid - Santa Elisa
El Tursita Norteño - San Jorge Xayacatlán - Ixmiquilpan - Rosario Acuitzilapan - Ciudad Concepcion - Mendoza - Zaragoza de Seguín - Santa Elisa
El Pequeño - Puerto Peñasco - Mujeres - Ixtlan - Bahía de Cortés
El Tarascan - San Jorge Xayacatlán - Tepexpan - Torrejón - Kabah - Ixhcel - Tecoh - Hoctún
El Dizhan - San Jorge Xayacatlán - Nueva Zoquipan - Peñuelos - La Rioja - Insurgentes - La Venta
El Santo del Norte - San Jorge Xayacatlán - Jocotitlán - San Lázaro - San José de Cortés - San Sebastián - Santa Fe - Santa Elisa
El Santo del Sur - San Jorge Xayacatlán - San Gregorio - Santa Cruz de Quelitán - Santa Catarina - Santa Lucía de Acatlán - San Agustín

Buenavista railway station in San Jorge Xayucatlán served as the terminal, passing through it's last renovation in 2009. Photos of Buenavista often prominently feature a pyramid-like tower, the Torre de la Regeneración. The building housed the headquarters of Telefónica, but currently is unoccupied and it has been renovated.

Locomotives and paintjobs

During the days of steam locomotives, N de R was best known for operating Niágara class locomotives, which took their name for the excessive steam it emanated. The N de R steam locomotives were all black, with the exception of the cab which took a grey color with the letter N. de. R. in the tender of the locomotive, alongside three lines that were colored after the national flag. Out of all the steam locomotives, only two Niagara are still in service: the 3038 that will serve as the Tren Turístico Nacional and the 3039, restored to be used in the science fiction drama The Outer Limits will now be delivered to the National Train Museum in Azltán.

Two N de R trains with different paint schemes

In Santiago de Lujambio, Lujambio, N de R operated one of the few facilities in Olivacia that was capable of constructing and doing complete rebuilds of steam locomotives, thus with rare exceptions (as with the Niagaras), most of N de R steam motive power was purchased used and rebuilt there. Portions of the facility and a preserved 2-8-0 steam locomotive remain as part of Santiago de Lujambio's municipal railway museum. A preserved Niagara locomotive (the 3034) can be viewed at the Museum of Electricity at Aztlán. Many more preserved Rugidoense steam, diesel, electric locomotives and passenger cars can be viewed at the FNR museum in the Delgado neighborhood in San Jorge.

Throught most of the first diesel locomotives of this company, their color scheme was orange or red in the front until after the cabin and olive green the rest of the machine. They had the letters N from R (without dots) and the numbers in silver. The tender on certain engines, were painted with a dark olive green color and a yellow stripe under. This paint scheme lasted until 1987.

The third scheme used a color blue in two shades and thin orange stripes, with the initials FNR and the numbers in orange. Early concepts included a shield based on the first symbol used by the predecessor of N de R, before it was discarded. On the locomotives 6700 - 6799, a bicolor flag with the initials FNR were painted beneath the number. This scheme lasted until 2009 - 2011.

The current scheme is similar to the third one, except it uses colors of the national flag with the FNR initials and the numbers in white. Originally, this was a scheme for the anniversary locomotives made in the case of the Independence and the Revolution, since both shared 2010 as celebration years. However, the scheme stick too well with the populace that was used afterwards. A logo of the FNR is added underneath the numbers.

The sole tradition kept through the years was the phrase "Unir y Servir" that is carried by the freight cars only.

Paint schemes of FNR.

N de R steam train scheme, notice the tri-color lines on the letters
N de R second paintjob. Used from 1962 to 1988, this job is still used by certain engines.
Third paint job scheme made when incorporating the railways under the Rugidoense government regime and by the MNT.
Fourth and current paintjob of the FNR.
FNR logos, letters and motto that is used on all trains and cars.