List of Mexican railroads
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This is a list of Mexican railroads, common carrier railroads operating as part of rail transport in Mexico.
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Passenger rail
Class I railroads
There are three Class I railroads:
- Ferromex (FXE)[8]
- Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC)[9]
- Ferrosur (FSRR)
Additionally the three Class I railroads jointly own a railroad that provides access to Mexico City
- Ferrocarril y Terminal del Valle de México (Ferrovalle)
Shortline railroads
Railway links with adjacent countries
To its north, Mexico shares a border with the United States that is 3,169 km (1,969 mi) in length[13] The two countries share the same track gauge of 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in), with multiple links. CG Railway operates a train ferry between the port of Mobile at Mobile, Alabama and the port of Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz.
To its south, Mexico shares an 871 km (541 mi) border with Guatemala and a 251 km (156 mi) border with Belize. There is rebuilt link with rail transport in Guatemala at Ciudad Tecún Umán in Ayutla, San Marcos, with a break of gauge. 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge / 914 mm (3 ft) (rebuilt as standard gauge in 2019[14])
Former railroads
Summarize
Perspective
The following is a list of former railroads:
- Bosques de Chihuahua[15]
- Carrizo Gorge de Mexico[16]
- Ferrocarril Aguascalientes[17]
- Ferrocarril Atlamaxac[18]
- Ferrocarril Cazadero la Torre y Tepetongo
- Ferrocarril Cazadero y San Pablo
- Ferrocarril Cazadero y Solis
- Ferrocarril Central Mexicano (see also Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Mexico)
- Ferrocarril Chihuahua al Pacifico now operated as a passenger line by Ferromex
- Ferrocarril Coahuila y Zacatecas[19]
- Ferrocarril de Córdoba a Huatusco
- Ferrocarril Desague del Valle de Mexico[20]
- El Oro Mining and Railway Company[21]
- El Paso Southern Railway (see Mexico North Western Railway)
- Ferrocarril Guanajuato a San Luis de la Paz y Pozos[22]
- Ferrocarril Hidalgo y Nordeste[23]
- Ferrocarril de Hornos
- Ferrocarril Inter-California
- Ferrocarril Interoceanico
- Ferrocarril Ixtlahuaca[22]
- Ferrocarril Jalapa y Cordoba
- Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway
- Kansas City Southern de Mexico (KCSM)[24]
- Ferrocarril Mapimi[25]
- Ferrocarril Matehuala[26]
- Ferrocarril Merida a Calkini[27]
- Ferrocarril de Merida a Peto[28]
- Ferrocarril Merida a Valladolid[29]
- Ferrocarril Mexicali y Golfo
- Ferrocarril Mexicano (FCM)
- Ferrocarril Mexicano del Sur[30]
- Mexico North Western Railway
- Ferrocarril Michoacan y Pacifico[26]
- Ferrocarril Monte Alto y Tlalnepantla[31]
- Monterrey Mineral and Terminal Railway[31]
- Ferrocarril Nacozari[32]
- Ferrocarril Nacional de la Baja California
- Ferrocarril Oaxaca a Ejutla[31]
- Ferrocarril del Pacifico (FCP)
- Panuco Mountain and Monclova Railroad[33]
- Ferrocarril Parral y Durango[33]
- Ferrocarril Peninsular de Merida-Yucatan[27]
- Potosi Central Railroad[33]
- Ferrocarril Potosi y Rio Verde (FPyRv)
- Rio Grande, Sierra Madre & Pacific Railway (see Mexico North Western Railway)
- Ferrocarril San Gregorio[34]
- Ferrocarril San Marcos a Huajapan de Leon[35]
- Ferrocarril San Rafael y Atlixco[34]
- Sinaloa and Durango Railroad[36][37][38]
- Ferrocarril Sonora-Baja California (SBC)
- Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Mexico (Freight Service)
- Southern Pacific of Mexico
- Ferrocarril de Tacubaya
- Ferrocarril Tlacotepec a Huajapan de Leon[35]
- Ferrocarril Toluca y Zitacuaro[39]
- Ferrocarril Toluca a Tenango y San Juan[39]
- Ferrocarril Torres a Prietas[39]
- Tehuantepec National Railway (see Tren Interoceánico)
- Ferrocarriles Unidos del Sureste (FUS)
- Ferrocarriles Unidos de Yucatán (U de Y)
- Ferrocarril del Valle de Mexico[40]
- Ferrocarril Vanegas, Cedral, y Rio Verde[40]
- Ferrocarril Vera Cruz a Anton Lizardo y Alvarado[40]
See also
References
- Best, Gerald M. (1968). Mexican Narrow Gauge. Howell-North.
Notes
External links
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