Railways for Modernization. Railway Workshops and Diesel Railway Engine in San Luis Potosí, 1950-1960

Abstract

This text explores some aspects of the called modernization of Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Mexico, exalted in the 1950s, focussing on the process of renewal of the workshops and other industrial architectural spaces of San Luis Potosí. This is taken as a focal point for analysis: the Ferronales magazine, media official of the company. On the phenomenon of modernization through the magazine, you can warn various elements such as: 1) the railroad saberes in industrial environments; 2) the relationship between: space and technology in industrial ecosystems; and 3) traces of the industrial heritage through a Mexican State-owned company of communications and transport.