List of Mexican railroads
Encyclopedia
This is a list of common carrier
railroads operating in Mexico
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Suburban
Fallen flag railroads
Defunct or absorbed into other railroads
Common carrier
A common carrier in common-law countries is a person or company that transports goods or people for any person or company and that is responsible for any possible loss of the goods during transport...
railroads operating in Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
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SuburbanRegional railCommuter rail, also called suburban rail, is a passenger rail transport service that primarily operates between a city center, and the middle to outer suburbs beyond 15km and commuter towns or other locations that draw large numbers of commuters—people who travel on a daily basis...
- Ferrocarril Suburbano de la Zona Metropolitana de México
- STC MetrorreyMonterrey MetroThe Monterrey Metro is a fully grade-separated light rail, or metro, system in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. It is the newest of Mexico's metro systems, with operation beginning in 1991. As of October 2008, the system operated 40 high-floor electric trains along 31 km of routes...
- Servicio de Transportes Elétricos del D.F.Servicio de Transportes EléctricosServicio de Transportes Eléctricos del Distrito Federal is a public transport agency responsible for the operation of all trolleybus and light rail services in Mexico City. As its name implies, its routes use only electrically powered vehicles...
- Metro de la Ciudad de México
- Sistema de Tren Eléctrico Urbano
Short line railroads
- Ferrocarril y Terminal del Valle de MéxicoFerrocarril y Terminal del Valle de MéxicoThe Ferrocarril y Terminal del Valle de México is a company that operates railroads and terminals in and around Mexico City, the capital of Mexico. It is jointly owned by Kansas City Southern de Mexico, Ferromex and Ferrosur....
(Ferrovalle) - Ferrosur (FSRR)
- Linea Ferrocarril Coahuila-DurangoLinea Coahuila DurangoThe Línea Coahuila Durango is a short-line railroad company operating between the states of Durango and Coahuila in Mexico. It was created as a freight railroad company when the Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Mexico was privatized between 1997 and 1998. It started operations on 27 April 1998...
(LFCD) - Carrizo Gorge de MexicoCarrizo Gorge RailwayThe Carrizo Gorge Railway is a freight operator on the San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway from Tijuana, Mexico to Plaster City, California , San Diego, California to La Mesa, California and San Diego, California to Santee, California...
(Carrizo Gorge Railway subsidiary) - CG RailwayCG RailwayThe CG Railway is a terminal railroad as reported by the Association of American Railroads. The CGR is headquartered in Mobile, Alabama and is owned and operated by the International Shipholding Corporation. The railroad operates an approximate train ferry between the Port of Mobile at Mobile,...
- Ferrocarril Transistmico
Fallen flag railroadsFallen flagA fallen flag is a North American railroader and railfan term referring to railroad company no longer in existence due to bankruptcy or merger.-Background:...
Defunct or absorbed into other railroads
- Ferrocarril Cazadero y San PabloCazadero and San Pablo RailroadCazadero and San Pablo Railroad was a 60-kilometer gauge line built in 1896 as the Ferrocarril Cazadero La Torre y Tepetongo from an interchange with the Mexican Central Railroad at Cazadero La Torre southwest through Nado to the sawmill community of San Pablo in Estado de México...
- Ferrocarril Central MexicanoMexican Central RailwayThe Mexican Central Railway was one of the primary pre-nationalization railways of Mexico. Incorporated in Massachusetts in 1880, it opened the main line in March 1884, linking Mexico City to Ciudad Juárez, across the Rio Grande from El Paso and connections to the Southern Pacific Railroad, Texas...
(see also Ferrocarriles Nacionales de MexicoFerrocarriles Nacionales de MéxicoFerrocarriles 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 Nuevo Laredo and Ciudad Juárez on the U.S. border...
) - Ferrocarril Chiapas-MayabFerrocarriles Chiapas-MayabFerrocarriles Chiapas-Mayab was a railroad in southeastern Mexico. It was a subsidiary of the Genesee and Wyoming company of railways....
(FCCM) (see also Genesee and Wyoming) - Ferrocarril Chihuahua al PacificoChihuahua al PacíficoThe Ferrocarril Chihuahua al Pacífico , also known as El Chepe from its reporting mark CHP, or Ferrocarril Chihuahua-Pacífico is a major rail line in northwest Mexico, linking the city of Chihuahua, Chihuahua, to the city of Los Mochis, Sinaloa and its port Topolobampo...
now operated as a passenger line by Ferromex - Ferrocarril de Córdoba a HuatuscoCórdoba and Huatusco RailroadThe Córdoba and Huatusco Railroad was a narrow gauge railroad connecting Huatusco with Córdoba. It was opened in 1902 and closed in 1953.- History :...
- El Paso Southern Railway (see Mexico North Western RailwayMexico North Western RailwayThe Mexico North-Western Railway or Compañía del Ferrocarril Nor-Oeste de México was a railroad that operated in Mexico between Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua, via Nuevo Casas Grandes in the western portion of the state of Chihuahua. Prior to 1909, it was known as the Rio Grande, Sierra Madre &...
) - Ferrocarril de Hornos
- Jalapa Railroad & Power Co. (JRR&PC)Jalapa Railroad & Power Co. (JRR&PC)The Jalapa Railroad & Power Co. was a railroad enterprise that offered passenger and cargo service between the towns of Xalapa and Teocelo, within the state of Veracruz, México, from 1898 thru 1945.-History:"In 1895 the Jalapa Railroad & Power Co...
- Kansas City, Mexico and Orient RailwayKansas City, Mexico and Orient RailwayThe Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway, started in 1900 by American railroad entrepreneur Arthur Edward Stilwell, was the predecessor to the Chihuahua al Pacífico railroad in Mexico. It was intended to reach the Pacific Ocean at Topolobampo, Sinaloa...
- Ferrocarril Mexicali y GolfoFerrocarril Mexicali y GolfoFerrocarril Mexicali y Golfo was a railroad line of Mexico started in 1901. Within a few years a controlling insterest in the railroad was bought by the American Southern Pacific Railroad company. The line eventually built was a predecessor to the Ferrocarril Sonora – Baja California. In 1929 the...
- Ferrocarril Inter-CaliforniaFerrocarril Inter-CaliforniaThe Ferrocarril Inter-California is a former railroad line of Mexico. It was a predecessor to the Ferrocarril Sonora-Baja California....
- Ferrocarril InteroceanicoFerrocarril InteroceánicoThe Interoceanic Railway of Mexico was one of the primary pre-nationalization railways of Mexico. Incorporated in Great Britain in 1888 to complete an unfinished project and compete with the Mexican Railway, it completed a narrow gauge main line from Mexico City to Veracruz in 1891...
- Ferrocarril MexicanoMexican RailwayThe Mexican Railway was one of the primary pre-nationalization railways of Mexico. Incorporated in London in September 1864 as the Imperial Mexican Railway to complete an earlier project, it was renamed in July 1867 after the Second French Empire withdrew from Mexico...
(FCM) - Mexico North Western RailwayMexico North Western RailwayThe Mexico North-Western Railway or Compañía del Ferrocarril Nor-Oeste de México was a railroad that operated in Mexico between Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua, via Nuevo Casas Grandes in the western portion of the state of Chihuahua. Prior to 1909, it was known as the Rio Grande, Sierra Madre &...
- Ferrocarril Nacional de la Baja CaliforniaFerrocarril Nacional de la Baja CaliforniaFerrocarril Nacional de la Baja California is a former railroad line of Mexico. It is a predecessor of the Ferrocarril Sonora-Baja California line.-See also:*List of Mexican railroads...
- Ferrocarriles Nacionales de MéxicoFerrocarriles Nacionales de MéxicoFerrocarriles 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 Nuevo Laredo and Ciudad Juárez on the U.S. border...
(N de M, also FNM) - Ferrocarril del PacificoFerrocarril del PacíficoThe Ferrocarril del Pacífico is a former railroad line of Mexico that operated from Benjamín Hill, Sonora to Guadalajara, Jalisco via Mazatlán, Sinaloa. It was absorbed into Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México in 1984....
(FCP) - Ferrocarril Potosi y Rio Verde (FPyRv)
- Rio Grande, Sierra Madre & Pacific Railway (see Mexico North Western RailwayMexico North Western RailwayThe Mexico North-Western Railway or Compañía del Ferrocarril Nor-Oeste de México was a railroad that operated in Mexico between Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua, via Nuevo Casas Grandes in the western portion of the state of Chihuahua. Prior to 1909, it was known as the Rio Grande, Sierra Madre &...
) - Ferrocarril Sonora-Baja CaliforniaFerrocarril Sonora-Baja CaliforniaThe Ferrocarril Sonora–Baja California is a former railroad line of Mexico that operated from Mexicali, Baja California, to Benjamín Hill, Sonora. It was absorbed into Nacionales de México in 1984.-External links:*...
(SBC) - Southern Pacific of MexicoSouthern Pacific of MexicoThe Southern Pacific Railroad of Mexico was a railroad subsidiary of the Southern Pacific Company in Mexico, operating from Nogales, Sonora, to Mazatlán, Sinaloa. The Sonora Railway Company began construction in 1880 and opened a link to Nogales in 1882; it was a subsidiary of the American "Sante...
- Ferrocarril de Tacubaya
- Tehuantepec National Railway (see Ferrocarril TransismiticoFerrocarril TransismiticoThe Ferrocarril Transistmico, also known as Ferrocarril del Istmo de Tehuantepec, S.A. de C.V. or simply Ferroistmo, today is a railroad with no rolling stock, owned by the Mexican government, that crosses the Isthmus of Tehuantepec between Puerto Mexico, Veracruz, and Salina Cruz, Oaxaca. It is...
) - Ferrocarriles Unidos del SuresteFerrocarriles Unidos del SuresteFerrocarriles Unidos del Sureste was a company that operated a railroad in southeastern Mexico. In the 1930s the Mexican government decided to build a railroad into the Yucatán, connecting the national system with the isolated Ferrocarriles Unidos de Yucatán. The project was completed in 1950 and...
(FUS) - Ferrocarriles Unidos de YucatánFerrocarriles Unidos de YucatanFerrocarriles Unidos de Yucatán was a narrow gauge railroad that operated in the state of Yucatán in Mexico. Four steam locomotives were bought and rebuilt by The Walt Disney Company and are currently operating at the Walt Disney World Railroad.- Facts :...
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Railway links with adjacent countries
- GuatemalaRail transport in GuatemalaAlthough Guatemala still has a network of narrow gauge railroads, no passenger or freight trains currently run, except for occasional chartered tourist trains.- History :...
– yes – break-of-gaugeBreak-of-gaugeWith railways, a break-of-gauge occurs where a line of one gauge meets a line of a different gauge. Trains and rolling stock cannot run through without some form of conversion between gauges, and freight and passengers must otherwise be transloaded...
/ (Currently inactive or not in use) - Belize – no
- United States – yes
- Train ferry to US (CG RailwayCG RailwayThe CG Railway is a terminal railroad as reported by the Association of American Railroads. The CGR is headquartered in Mobile, Alabama and is owned and operated by the International Shipholding Corporation. The railroad operates an approximate train ferry between the Port of Mobile at Mobile,...
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- Train ferry to US (CG Railway
See also
- AerotrénAerotrenThe Aerotrén is a people mover operating at Mexico City International Airport, near Mexico City, in Mexico. The automated people mover provides a link between Terminal 1 and Terminal 2....
- Copper CanyonCopper CanyonCopper Canyon is a group of canyons consisting of six distinct canyons in the Sierra Tarahumara in the southwestern part of the state of Chihuahua in Mexico...
- DecauvilleDecauvilleThe Decauville manufacturing company was founded by Paul Decauville , a French pioneer in industrial railways. Decauville's major innovation was the use of ready-made sections of light, narrow gauge track fastened to steel sleepers; this track was portable and could be disassembled and transported...
- Guadalajara MetroGuadalajara MetroThe Guadalajara light rail system , which is operated by SITEUR , is a light rail system serving the municipalities of Guadalajara, Zapopan and Tlaquepaque, in the state of Jalisco, Mexico...
- List of named passenger trains of Mexico
- List of reporting marks
- List of railway companies
- Mexico City MetroMexico City MetroThe Mexico City Metro , officially called Sistema de Transporte Colectivo, is a metro system that serves the metropolitan area of Mexico City...
- Monterrey MetroMonterrey MetroThe Monterrey Metro is a fully grade-separated light rail, or metro, system in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. It is the newest of Mexico's metro systems, with operation beginning in 1991. As of October 2008, the system operated 40 high-floor electric trains along 31 km of routes...
- Rail transport in MexicoRail transport in MexicoMexico has a freight railway system that is privately owned and extends across most of the country, connecting major industrial centers with ports and with rail connections at the United States border...
- Tequila ExpressTequila ExpressThe Tequila Express is a Mexican regional train service that operates from Guadalajara, Jalisco, to the Tequila Herradura distillery at the San José del Refugio Hacienda in the municipality of Amatitán, Jalisco. Amatitán is approximately northwest of Guadalajara and southeast of the town of...
- Transportation in MexicoTransportation in MexicoTransportation and Communications in Mexico may refer to:* Communications in Mexico* Transportation in Mexico...
- Xochimilco Light RailXochimilco Light RailThe Xochimilco Light Rail is a light rail line that serves the southern part of Mexico City. It connects to, but is not considered a part of, the Mexico City Metro...
External links
- Nacionales de Mexico sociedad Historica
- Nacionales de Mexico y lineas administradas photo and video page
- Ferrocarril del Sureste FERROSUR
- Ferrocarril Mexicano FERROMEX
- Kansas City Southern de Mexico KCSM (Formerly TFM)
- Ferrocarril Coahula-Durango LFCD
- Ferrocarriles Chiapas-Mayab FCCM
- MEXLIST—The Group for Mexican Railway Information
- FERROMEXICO Information, pictures, maps and plenty of Mexican railroad data
- RIHEL Articles and pictures about Mexican railroads, in SpanishSpanish languageSpanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
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- MEXLIST Mexican railroad discussion and study group
- Mexlist, list of currently existing railways
Photo pages
- Ferrocarril Mexicano (FXE)
- Ferrocarril Chiapas Mayab (FCCM)
- Linea Coahuila-Durango (LFCD)
- Transportacion Ferroviaria Mexicana (now KCSM) (TFM)
- Ferrocarriles Peninsulares del Noroeste Carrizo Gorge (FPN)
- Ferrocarril del Sureste (FSRR)
- Ferrovalle (FTVM)