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February 16, 2024

Mexico has a freight railway system owned by the national government and operated by various entities under concessions (charters) granted by the national government. The railway system provides freight and passenger service throughout the country (the majority of the service is freight-oriented), connecting major industrial centers with ports and with rail connections at the United States border. Passenger rail services were limited to a number of tourist trains between 1997, when Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México suspended service, and 2008, when Ferrocarril Suburbano de la Zona Metropolitana de México inaugurated Mexico's first commuter rail service between Mexico City and the State of Mexico. This is not including the Mexico City Metro, which started service in 1969.

Map of the Railway System in Mexico
Former Train Station, Aguascalientes, Mexico

History edit

Construction edit

 
Map of first Mexican rail line between Veracruz and Mexico City
 
Mexican Central Railway train at station, Mexico
 
Rebel soldiers moving by rail during the Mexican Revolution

Mexico's rail history began in 1837, with the granting of a concession for a railroad to be built between Veracruz, on the Gulf of Mexico, and Mexico City. However, no railroad was built under that concession.

In 1857, Don Antonio Escandón secured the right to build a line from the port of Veracruz to Mexico City and on to the Pacific Ocean. Revolution and political instability stifled progress on the financing or construction of the line until 1864, when, under the regime of Emperor Maximilian, the Imperial Mexican Railway Company began construction of the line. Political upheaval continued to stifle progress, and the initial segment from Veracruz to Mexico City was inaugurated nine years later on January 1, 1873 by President Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada.

President Lerdo and his successor Porfirio Díaz encouraged further rail development through generous concessions that included government subsidies for construction. At the beginning of his first term Díaz inherited 398 miles (640.5 km) of railroads consisting almost exclusively of the British-owned Mexican Railway.[1] By the end of his second term in 1910, Mexico boasted 15,360 miles (24,720 km) of in-service track, mostly built by American, British and French investors.[2]

From a small start, the railway network expanded significantly, linking many parts of the country previously isolated. The Interoceanic Railway linked Mexico City to the port of Veracruz; the Monterrey and Mexican Railroad linked that northern city with the Gulf Coast port of Tampico; the Southern Pacific of Mexico linked west coast cities from Guaymas to Mazatlan; the Sonora Railway linked Nogales to the port of Guaymas; and the Mexican Central Railroad went north to the U.S. border at El Paso, Texas.[3] The British invested £7.4 million in railways during the decade of the 1880s, jumping to £53.4 million in 1910s. The decade-total of new investment in mining went from £1.3 million in 1880s to £11.6 million in 1910s. Investments in land and other properties rose from near zero in 1880s to £19.7 million in 1910s. The totals reached £135 million, almost as much as the United States.[4]

Growing nationalistic fervor in Mexico led the Díaz administration to bring the bulk of the nation's railroads under national control through a plan drafted by his Minister of Finance, José Yves Limantour. The plan, implemented in 1909, created a new government corporation, Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México (FNM), which would exercise control of the main trunk rail lines through a majority of share ownership.

Nationalization edit

The rail system deteriorated greatly from neglect during the period of the Mexican Revolution. Following the Revolution, the entirety of the Mexican rail system was nationalized between 1929 and 1937. In 1987 the government merged its five regional railroads into FNM. During the later period of national ownership, FNM suffered significant financial difficulties, running an operating deficit of $552 million (37 percent of its operating budget) in 1991. Competition from trucking and shipping decreased railroad's share of the total freight market to about 9 percent, or about half of rail's share a decade earlier.

Privatization edit

 
Map of Ferrocarril Mexicano system

In 1995, the Mexican government announced that the FNM would be privatized and divided into four main systems. As part of the restructuring for privatization, FNM suspended passenger rail service in 1997.

 
Bust of Jose Rendón Peniche who worked in the construction and then had charge the general direction of the first railway Yucatan, route Mérida-Progreso

In 1996, Kansas City Southern (KCS), in a joint venture with Transportacion Maritima Mexicana (TMM), bought the Northeast Railroad concession that linked Mexico City, Monterrey, the Pacific port at Lázaro Cárdenas and the border crossing at Laredo. The company was initially called Transportación Ferroviaria Mexicana (TFM), but was renamed Kansas City Southern de México (KCSM) in 2005 when KCS bought out TMM's interests. KCS's systems in the United States and Mexico jointly form end-to-end rail system linking the heartlands of Mexico and the United States.

The Northwest Railroad concession, connecting Mexico City and Guadalajara with the Pacific port of Manzanillo and various crossings along the United States border was sold to a joint venture between Grupo México and Union Pacific Railroad in 1998 during the presidency of Dr. Ernesto Zedillo (which later occupied the position of Director of the Board of Union Pacific). The company operates as Ferrocarril Mexicano or Ferromex. Ferromex's freight volumes have increased; it hauled a record 22,365 million tonne-km in the first 6 months of 2010. Also, Ferrosur, the railroad serving Mexico City and cities/ports southeast of Mexico City, hauled their own record 3,565 million tonne-kilometers.[5]

There were two southern concessions, merged in 2000 to form Ferrosur. Ferrosur operates the line between Mexico City and the Gulf of Mexico port of Veracruz. In 2005, Ferrosur was bought by Ferromex's parent company. KCSM challenged the acquisition and the merger failed to receive regulatory approval. However, in March 2011, a tribunal ruled in Grupo México's favor, and the merger was permitted.[6]

The three major Mexican railroads jointly own Ferrocarril y Terminal del Valle de México (Ferrovalle) which operates railroads and terminals in and around Mexico City.

Revival of passenger service edit

 
Rail System in Mexico

In 2006, the Secretariat of Communications and Transport of Mexico proposed a high-speed rail link[7] that would have transported passengers from Mexico City to Guadalajara, Jalisco, with stops in the cities of Querétaro, Guanajuato, Leon and Irapuato, along with a branch running from the port city of Manzanillo to Aguascalientes. The train would travel at 300 km/h,[8] and would allow passengers to travel from Mexico City to Guadalajara in just 2 hours[8] at an affordable price (the same trip by road takes 7 hours). The network was foreseen to eventually connect to Monterrey, Chilpancingo, Cuernavaca, Toluca, Puebla, Tijuana, Hermosillo, Cordoba, Veracruz, Oaxaca, Colima, Zacatecas, Torreon, Chihuahua, Puebla, San Luis Potosi, Mexicali, Saltillo, and Acapulco by 2015.[7] The whole project was projected to cost 240 billion pesos, or about 25 billion dollars.[7] Despite Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim's expressed interest in investing in high-speed rail,[9] no progress was made on the proposal.

President Enrique Peña Nieto proposed a return to services of intercity trains. His administration's proposals included the Toluca–Mexico City commuter rail, which successfully launched construction in 2014 and went into service in 2023. They also included the Tren Maya, which would run throughout the Yucatan Peninsula, and whose construction eventually began in 2020, and a Mexico City-Querétaro high speed rail line.

A consortium of China Railway Construction Corporation, Prodemex, Teya and GHP was awarded the contract to build the Mexico City-Querétaro high speed rail, at a cost of $3.75 billion dollars. However, the contract was cancelled the following year due to a series of corruption scandals.[10] In 2015, Mexico opened a new tender, which was again revoked, leading to the Mexican government paying China Railway Construction Corporation a 1.31 million USD indemnification.[11] The project was revived in July 2023 as an extension of the Cuatitlan commuter rail, when the Mexican government signed an agreement with Canadian Pacific Kansas City Railroad to study the viability of a passenger rail line from Mexico City to the city of Queretaro.[12]

In September 2018, President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced a US$7.4 billion plan to build a tourist and freight railway on the Yucatán Peninsula. The project, named the Tren Maya, began construction in 2020 and will connect Palenque to Cancún, but remains controversial with environmentalists and indigenous rights activists.[13][14] The new service debuted in 2023 and marked yet another chapter in the intercity revival.

Railways edit

 
Ferrosur train in Veracruz
 
Commuter rail train in Mexico City Buenavista railway station

The major Class I freight railroads in Mexico include:

Short line railroads include:

Passenger rail lines include:

Mass transit edit

Urban rail transit systems in Mexico include four light rail or rapid transit systems: The Guadalajara light rail system, the Mexico City Metro, the Xochimilco Light Rail line (in Mexico City) and the Monterrey Metro. In 2017, the Puebla-Cholula Tourist Train opened in Puebla City;[17] service ended in December 2021.

Expansion edit

In January 2022, the Mexican Secretary of communications and transport approved a 180 Kilometer rail expansion in the Durango-Mazatlan corridor. It has an estimated cost of 1.2 billion dollars to revive and expand the abandoned corridor under a private-public partnership with the company Caxxor Group, as part of the USMCA agreement.[18][19][20][21]

Museums edit

 
Calvillo, Aguascalientes

There are several rail museums in Mexico including the Railway Museum in San Luis Potosi,[22] the Old Railway Station Museum in Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes; a former station along the Interoceanic Railway of Mexico in Cuautla, Morelos which serves as a museum; the Museo de las Ferrocarilles en Yucatán is in Mérida, Yucatán;[23] and the National Railway Museum in Puebla, Puebla.[24] The former station in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon is now used as an art museum.

Railway links with adjacent countries edit

  • United States – freight only – same 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
  • Guatemala – at Ciudad Tecún Umán, – break-of-gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge / 914 mm (3 ft) (rebuilt as standard gauge in 2019[25])

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Bazant, Jan (1977). A Concise History of Mexico from Hidalgo to Cardenas 1805–1940. New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 111. ISBN 0-521-29173-9.
  2. ^ Fred Wilbur Powell, the Railroads of Mexico, 1921
  3. ^ Coatsworth, John H. Growth Against Development: The Economic Impact of Railroads in Porfirian Mexico. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University 1981.
  4. ^ Tenenbaum, Barbara A. and James N. McElveen, "From speculative to substantive boom: the British in Mexico, 1821–1911." in Oliver Marshall, ed. English speaking communities in Latin America (Macmillan, 2000): 51–79, at p 69.
  5. ^ "A record half". Railway Gazette International. London. September 9, 2010. Retrieved October 12, 2010.
  6. ^ . Reuters. March 28, 2011. Archived from the original on April 1, 2011.
  7. ^ a b c Hawley, Chris (January 6, 2006). "Mexico reviving travel by train". Arizona Republic. Phoenix.
  8. ^ a b . Archived from the original on May 1, 2011. Retrieved October 30, 2010.
  9. ^ "Slim to invest in Santa Cruz" (Press release). Corporate Mexico. The America's Intelligence Wire. January 21, 2005.
  10. ^ O‘Boyle & Graham, Michael & Dave (November 7, 2014). "Mexico scraps $3.75 bln China rail deal ahead of state visit". Reuters.
  11. ^ "Mexico to pay China rail firm for cancelling project". BBC. May 22, 2015.
  12. ^ Rogers, David (July 13, 2023). "Mexico revives Querétaro high-speed railway nine years after cancelling it". Global Construction Review. Retrieved December 12, 2023.
  13. ^ Pskowski, Martha (February 22, 2019). "Mexico's 'Mayan Train' Is Bound for Controversy". CityLab. Retrieved February 23, 2019.
  14. ^ Varillas, Adriana (November 23, 2018). "Everything you need to know about the Mayan Train project". El Universal. Retrieved February 23, 2019.
  15. ^ "Tren al AIFA estará listo el primer trimestre de 2024". Mexico City government. July 29, 2023.
  16. ^ "Mexico launches Interoceanic Train service". Trains. December 23, 2023. Retrieved December 24, 2023.
  17. ^ "Puebla tram-train inaugurated". Metro Report International. January 25, 2017. Retrieved December 11, 2017.
  18. ^ . El Monitor de parral. Archived from the original on January 2, 2022. Retrieved March 16, 2022.
  19. ^ "Dan aval a proyecto de tren Durango - Mazatlan". El Siglo De Durango. December 30, 2021. Retrieved March 16, 2022.
  20. ^ "En Mazatlán comenzará a construirse un nuevo tren en septiembre". Obras por Expansion. Grupo Expansion. May 20, 2021. Retrieved March 16, 2022.
  21. ^ "Canadian construction firm picked for $1B Mexico-Canada rail link project". Freight Waves. April 7, 2021. Retrieved March 16, 2022.
  22. ^ "Railroad Museum, Jesus Garcia Corona". www.mexicoescultura.com.
  23. ^ Gorbman, Beryl (February 24, 2010). . Archived from the original on August 17, 2011. Retrieved May 10, 2011.
  24. ^ Álvarez, Samantha; Minsk, Todd R. (March 2005). . Journal of Transport History. Vol. 26, no. 1. Manchester University Press. p. 112. ISSN 0022-5266. Archived from the original on August 13, 2019. Retrieved May 11, 2011.
  25. ^ "Railway between Guatemala and Mexico, connectivity across Puerto Chiapas". www.puertochiapas.com.mx.

Further reading edit

  • Coatsworth, John H. "Indispensable railroads in a backward economy: the case of Mexico." Journal of Economic History 39.04 (1979) pp: 939–960. in JSTOR
  • Coatsworth, John. "Railroads, landholding, and agrarian protest in the early porfiriato." Hispanic American Historical Review (1974) pp: 48–71. in JSTOR
  • Knapp, Frank A. "Precursors of American investment in Mexican railroads." Pacific Historical Review (1952): 43–64. in JSTOR
  • Lewis, Daniel. Iron Horse Imperialism: The Southern Pacific of Mexico, 1880–1950 (University of Arizona Press, 2007)
  • Matthews, Michael. The Civilizing Machine: A Cultural History of Mexican Railroads, 1876–1910 (2014) excerpt
  • Miller, Richard Ulric. "American railroad unions and the national railways of Mexico: An exercise in nineteenth‐century proletarian manifest destiny," Labor History 15.2 (1974) pp: 239–260.
  • Powell, Fred Wilbur. The Railroads of Mexico (1921)
  • Van Hoy, Teresa. A social history of Mexico's railroads: peons, prisoners, and priests (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008)
  • Donovan, Frank and Kerr, John Leeds. Destination Topolobampo: The Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railway (Golden West Books, 1968)

External links edit

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rail transport in Mexico.
  • The Mexican Railways
  • History of Mexico's Railroads July 11, 2011, at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
  • The Railroads of Mexico by Fred Wilbur Powell on Google Books
  • Ferrocarril Coahuila Durango
  • Ferromex
  • Ferrosur
  • Kansas City Southern
  • Mexican government: Secretary of Communication & Transport
  • Mexico Infrastructure and Rail Projects
  • Union Pacific Railroad Company
  • Kansas City Southern Railway Company
  • Pictures of restored(non-operational) train station in Durango, Mexico

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This article needs to be updated Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information January 2024 Mexico has a freight railway system owned by the national government and operated by various entities under concessions charters granted by the national government The railway system provides freight and passenger service throughout the country the majority of the service is freight oriented connecting major industrial centers with ports and with rail connections at the United States border Passenger rail services were limited to a number of tourist trains between 1997 when Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Mexico suspended service and 2008 when Ferrocarril Suburbano de la Zona Metropolitana de Mexico inaugurated Mexico s first commuter rail service between Mexico City and the State of Mexico This is not including the Mexico City Metro which started service in 1969 Map of the Railway System in MexicoFormer Train Station Aguascalientes Mexico Contents 1 History 1 1 Construction 1 2 Nationalization 1 3 Privatization 1 4 Revival of passenger service 2 Railways 2 1 Mass transit 3 Expansion 4 Museums 5 Railway links with adjacent countries 6 See also 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External linksHistory editConstruction edit nbsp Map of first Mexican rail line between Veracruz and Mexico City nbsp Mexican Central Railway train at station Mexico nbsp Rebel soldiers moving by rail during the Mexican RevolutionMexico s rail history began in 1837 with the granting of a concession for a railroad to be built between Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico and Mexico City However no railroad was built under that concession In 1857 Don Antonio Escandon secured the right to build a line from the port of Veracruz to Mexico City and on to the Pacific Ocean Revolution and political instability stifled progress on the financing or construction of the line until 1864 when under the regime of Emperor Maximilian the Imperial Mexican Railway Company began construction of the line Political upheaval continued to stifle progress and the initial segment from Veracruz to Mexico City was inaugurated nine years later on January 1 1873 by President Sebastian Lerdo de Tejada President Lerdo and his successor Porfirio Diaz encouraged further rail development through generous concessions that included government subsidies for construction At the beginning of his first term Diaz inherited 398 miles 640 5 km of railroads consisting almost exclusively of the British owned Mexican Railway 1 By the end of his second term in 1910 Mexico boasted 15 360 miles 24 720 km of in service track mostly built by American British and French investors 2 From a small start the railway network expanded significantly linking many parts of the country previously isolated The Interoceanic Railway linked Mexico City to the port of Veracruz the Monterrey and Mexican Railroad linked that northern city with the Gulf Coast port of Tampico the Southern Pacific of Mexico linked west coast cities from Guaymas to Mazatlan the Sonora Railway linked Nogales to the port of Guaymas and the Mexican Central Railroad went north to the U S border at El Paso Texas 3 The British invested 7 4 million in railways during the decade of the 1880s jumping to 53 4 million in 1910s The decade total of new investment in mining went from 1 3 million in 1880s to 11 6 million in 1910s Investments in land and other properties rose from near zero in 1880s to 19 7 million in 1910s The totals reached 135 million almost as much as the United States 4 Growing nationalistic fervor in Mexico led the Diaz administration to bring the bulk of the nation s railroads under national control through a plan drafted by his Minister of Finance Jose Yves Limantour The plan implemented in 1909 created a new government corporation Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Mexico FNM which would exercise control of the main trunk rail lines through a majority of share ownership Nationalization edit The rail system deteriorated greatly from neglect during the period of the Mexican Revolution Following the Revolution the entirety of the Mexican rail system was nationalized between 1929 and 1937 In 1987 the government merged its five regional railroads into FNM During the later period of national ownership FNM suffered significant financial difficulties running an operating deficit of 552 million 37 percent of its operating budget in 1991 Competition from trucking and shipping decreased railroad s share of the total freight market to about 9 percent or about half of rail s share a decade earlier Privatization edit nbsp Map of Ferrocarril Mexicano systemIn 1995 the Mexican government announced that the FNM would be privatized and divided into four main systems As part of the restructuring for privatization FNM suspended passenger rail service in 1997 nbsp Bust of Jose Rendon Peniche who worked in the construction and then had charge the general direction of the first railway Yucatan route Merida ProgresoIn 1996 Kansas City Southern KCS in a joint venture with Transportacion Maritima Mexicana TMM bought the Northeast Railroad concession that linked Mexico City Monterrey the Pacific port at Lazaro Cardenas and the border crossing at Laredo The company was initially called Transportacion Ferroviaria Mexicana TFM but was renamed Kansas City Southern de Mexico KCSM in 2005 when KCS bought out TMM s interests KCS s systems in the United States and Mexico jointly form end to end rail system linking the heartlands of Mexico and the United States The Northwest Railroad concession connecting Mexico City and Guadalajara with the Pacific port of Manzanillo and various crossings along the United States border was sold to a joint venture between Grupo Mexico and Union Pacific Railroad in 1998 during the presidency of Dr Ernesto Zedillo which later occupied the position of Director of the Board of Union Pacific The company operates as Ferrocarril Mexicano or Ferromex Ferromex s freight volumes have increased it hauled a record 22 365 million tonne km in the first 6 months of 2010 Also Ferrosur the railroad serving Mexico City and cities ports southeast of Mexico City hauled their own record 3 565 million tonne kilometers 5 There were two southern concessions merged in 2000 to form Ferrosur Ferrosur operates the line between Mexico City and the Gulf of Mexico port of Veracruz In 2005 Ferrosur was bought by Ferromex s parent company KCSM challenged the acquisition and the merger failed to receive regulatory approval However in March 2011 a tribunal ruled in Grupo Mexico s favor and the merger was permitted 6 The three major Mexican railroads jointly own Ferrocarril y Terminal del Valle de Mexico Ferrovalle which operates railroads and terminals in and around Mexico City Revival of passenger service edit nbsp Rail System in MexicoIn 2006 the Secretariat of Communications and Transport of Mexico proposed a high speed rail link 7 that would have transported passengers from Mexico City to Guadalajara Jalisco with stops in the cities of Queretaro Guanajuato Leon and Irapuato along with a branch running from the port city of Manzanillo to Aguascalientes The train would travel at 300 km h 8 and would allow passengers to travel from Mexico City to Guadalajara in just 2 hours 8 at an affordable price the same trip by road takes 7 hours The network was foreseen to eventually connect to Monterrey Chilpancingo Cuernavaca Toluca Puebla Tijuana Hermosillo Cordoba Veracruz Oaxaca Colima Zacatecas Torreon Chihuahua Puebla San Luis Potosi Mexicali Saltillo and Acapulco by 2015 7 The whole project was projected to cost 240 billion pesos or about 25 billion dollars 7 Despite Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim s expressed interest in investing in high speed rail 9 no progress was made on the proposal President Enrique Pena Nieto proposed a return to services of intercity trains His administration s proposals included the Toluca Mexico City commuter rail which successfully launched construction in 2014 and went into service in 2023 They also included the Tren Maya which would run throughout the Yucatan Peninsula and whose construction eventually began in 2020 and a Mexico City Queretaro high speed rail line A consortium of China Railway Construction Corporation Prodemex Teya and GHP was awarded the contract to build the Mexico City Queretaro high speed rail at a cost of 3 75 billion dollars However the contract was cancelled the following year due to a series of corruption scandals 10 In 2015 Mexico opened a new tender which was again revoked leading to the Mexican government paying China Railway Construction Corporation a 1 31 million USD indemnification 11 The project was revived in July 2023 as an extension of the Cuatitlan commuter rail when the Mexican government signed an agreement with Canadian Pacific Kansas City Railroad to study the viability of a passenger rail line from Mexico City to the city of Queretaro 12 In September 2018 President elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced a US 7 4 billion plan to build a tourist and freight railway on the Yucatan Peninsula The project named the Tren Maya began construction in 2020 and will connect Palenque to Cancun but remains controversial with environmentalists and indigenous rights activists 13 14 The new service debuted in 2023 and marked yet another chapter in the intercity revival Railways edit nbsp Ferrosur train in Veracruz nbsp Commuter rail train in Mexico City Buenavista railway stationThe major Class I freight railroads in Mexico include Ferromex FXE CPKCShort line railroads include Baja California Railroad BJRR Ferrocarriles Chiapas Mayab FCCM Ferrocarril y Terminal del Valle de Mexico Ferrovalle Ferrosur FSRR Linea Coahuila Durango LFCD Tren InteroceanicoPassenger rail lines include Chihuahua al Pacifico a tourist train running through the Copper Canyon Tequila Express a tourist train running from Guadalajara Jalisco to a tequila distillery in Amatitan Tren Suburbano commuter rail system in the Mexico City metro area Under construction will reach the Felipe Angeles International Airport in 2024 15 El Insurgente commuter rail system with 4 initial stations and 3 more opening in May 2024 Tren Maya a passenger service on the Yucatan Peninsula with top speeds of up to 99 miles per hour 159 km h Line Z a passenger on the Tren Interoceanico Passenger service uses ex Amtrak Amfleets and ex British Rail InterCity 125s 16 Mass transit edit Urban rail transit systems in Mexico include four light rail or rapid transit systems The Guadalajara light rail system the Mexico City Metro the Xochimilco Light Rail line in Mexico City and the Monterrey Metro In 2017 the Puebla Cholula Tourist Train opened in Puebla City 17 service ended in December 2021 Expansion editIn January 2022 the Mexican Secretary of communications and transport approved a 180 Kilometer rail expansion in the Durango Mazatlan corridor It has an estimated cost of 1 2 billion dollars to revive and expand the abandoned corridor under a private public partnership with the company Caxxor Group as part of the USMCA agreement 18 19 20 21 Museums edit nbsp Calvillo AguascalientesThere are several rail museums in Mexico including the Railway Museum in San Luis Potosi 22 the Old Railway Station Museum in Aguascalientes Aguascalientes a former station along the Interoceanic Railway of Mexico in Cuautla Morelos which serves as a museum the Museo de las Ferrocarilles en Yucatan is in Merida Yucatan 23 and the National Railway Museum in Puebla Puebla 24 The former station in Monterrey Nuevo Leon is now used as an art museum Railway links with adjacent countries editUnited States freight only same 1 435 mm 4 ft 8 1 2 in standard gauge Guatemala at Ciudad Tecun Uman break of gauge 1 435 mm 4 ft 8 1 2 in standard gauge 914 mm 3 ft rebuilt as standard gauge in 2019 25 See also edit nbsp Trains portal nbsp Mexico portalList of Mexican railroads List of street railways in Mexico all time historical list Transportation in MexicoReferences edit Bazant Jan 1977 A Concise History of Mexico from Hidalgo to Cardenas 1805 1940 New York Cambridge University Press p 111 ISBN 0 521 29173 9 Fred Wilbur Powell the Railroads of Mexico 1921 Coatsworth John H Growth Against Development The Economic Impact of Railroads in Porfirian Mexico DeKalb Northern Illinois University 1981 Tenenbaum Barbara A and James N McElveen From speculative to substantive boom the British in Mexico 1821 1911 in Oliver Marshall ed English speaking communities in Latin America Macmillan 2000 51 79 at p 69 A record half Railway Gazette International London September 9 2010 Retrieved October 12 2010 Mexican Tribunal OKs Grupo Mexico Railroad merger Reuters March 28 2011 Archived from the original on April 1 2011 a b c Hawley Chris January 6 2006 Mexico reviving travel by train Arizona Republic Phoenix a b Systra Project for a Mexico City Guadalajara High Speed Line Rail transport engineering public transport engineering Archived from the original on May 1 2011 Retrieved October 30 2010 Slim to invest in Santa Cruz Press release Corporate Mexico The America s Intelligence Wire January 21 2005 O Boyle amp Graham Michael amp Dave November 7 2014 Mexico scraps 3 75 bln China rail deal ahead of state visit Reuters Mexico to pay China rail firm for cancelling project BBC May 22 2015 Rogers David July 13 2023 Mexico revives Queretaro high speed railway nine years after cancelling it Global Construction Review Retrieved December 12 2023 Pskowski Martha February 22 2019 Mexico s Mayan Train Is Bound for Controversy CityLab Retrieved February 23 2019 Varillas Adriana November 23 2018 Everything you need to know about the Mayan Train project El Universal Retrieved February 23 2019 Tren al AIFA estara listo el primer trimestre de 2024 Mexico City government July 29 2023 Mexico launches Interoceanic Train service Trains December 23 2023 Retrieved December 24 2023 Puebla tram train inaugurated Metro Report International January 25 2017 Retrieved December 11 2017 Tren de durango a mazatlan mil millones de dolares El Monitor de parral Archived from the original on January 2 2022 Retrieved March 16 2022 Dan aval a proyecto de tren Durango Mazatlan El Siglo De Durango December 30 2021 Retrieved March 16 2022 En Mazatlan comenzara a construirse un nuevo tren en septiembre Obras por Expansion Grupo Expansion May 20 2021 Retrieved March 16 2022 Canadian construction firm picked for 1B Mexico Canada rail link project Freight Waves April 7 2021 Retrieved March 16 2022 Railroad Museum Jesus Garcia Corona www mexicoescultura com Gorbman Beryl February 24 2010 Trains and The Merida Railway Museum Archived from the original on August 17 2011 Retrieved May 10 2011 Alvarez Samantha Minsk Todd R March 2005 Mexico s National Railway Museum Journal of Transport History Vol 26 no 1 Manchester University Press p 112 ISSN 0022 5266 Archived from the original on August 13 2019 Retrieved May 11 2011 Railway between Guatemala and Mexico connectivity across Puerto Chiapas www puertochiapas com mx Further reading editCoatsworth John H Indispensable railroads in a backward economy the case of Mexico Journal of Economic History 39 04 1979 pp 939 960 in JSTOR Coatsworth John Railroads landholding and agrarian protest in the early porfiriato Hispanic American Historical Review 1974 pp 48 71 in JSTOR Knapp Frank A Precursors of American investment in Mexican railroads Pacific Historical Review 1952 43 64 in JSTOR Lewis Daniel Iron Horse Imperialism The Southern Pacific of Mexico 1880 1950 University of Arizona Press 2007 Matthews Michael The Civilizing Machine A Cultural History of Mexican Railroads 1876 1910 2014 excerpt Miller Richard Ulric American railroad unions and the national railways of Mexico An exercise in nineteenth century proletarian manifest destiny Labor History 15 2 1974 pp 239 260 Powell Fred Wilbur The Railroads of Mexico 1921 Van Hoy Teresa A social history of Mexico s railroads peons prisoners and priests Rowman amp Littlefield 2008 Donovan Frank and Kerr John Leeds Destination Topolobampo The Kansas City Mexico amp Orient Railway Golden West Books 1968 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rail transport in Mexico The Mexican Railways History of Mexico s Railroads Archived July 11 2011 at the Wayback Machine in Spanish The Railroads of Mexico by Fred Wilbur Powell on Google Books Ferrocarril Coahuila Durango Ferromex Ferrosur Kansas City Southern Ferrocarril Y Terminal Del Valle De Mexico Mexican government Secretary of Communication amp Transport Mexico Infrastructure and Rail Projects Union Pacific Railroad Company Kansas City Southern Railway Company Pictures of restored non operational train station in Durango Mexico Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Rail transport in Mexico amp oldid 1203230913, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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