List of Mexican railroads
This is a list of Mexican railroads, common carrier railroads operating as part of rail transport in Mexico.
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Passenger rail
Passenger regional rail within urban areas includes:
- Ferrocarril Suburbano de la Zona Metropolitana de México[1]
- STC Metrorrey[2]
- Servicio de Transportes Eléctricos del D.F.[3]
- Metro de la Ciudad de México[4]
- Sistema de Tren Eléctrico Urbano[5]
There is also the
- Ferrocarril Chihuahua al Pacífico, which connects Los Mochis, Sinaloa to Chihuahua, Chihuahua
Class I railroads
There are two Class I railroads:
- Ferrocarril Mexicano (FXE)[6]
- Kansas City Southern de México (KCSM)[7]
Shortline railroads
Shortline and terminal railroad companies include:
- Ferrocarril y Terminal del Valle de México (Ferrovalle)[8]
- Ferrosur (FSRR)[9]
- Linea Ferrocarril Coahuila-Durango (LFCD)[10]
- Baja California Railroad(BJRR)
- CG Railway[11]
- Ferrocarril Transistmico[12]
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 Lua error in Module:Convert at line 272: attempt to index local 'cat' (a nil value). border with Belize. There is an inactive link with rail transport in Guatemala at Ciudad Tecún Umán in Ayutla, San Marcos, with a break of gauge (1,435 mm / 914 mm). Mexico has no link with rail transport in Belize.
Fallen flag railroads
The following is a list of former railroads:
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- Carrizo Gorge de Mexico [14]
- Ferrocarril Aguacalientes[15]
- Ferrocarril Atlamaxac[16]
- 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 Chiapas-Mayab (FCCM) (see also Genesee and Wyoming) [17]
- Ferrocarril Chihuahua al Pacifico now operated as a passenger line by Ferromex
- Ferrocarril Coahuila y Zacatecas[18]
- Ferrocarril de Córdoba a Huatusco
- Ferrocarril Desague del Valle de Mexico[19]
- El Oro Mining and Railway Company[20]
- El Paso Southern Railway (see Mexico North Western Railway)
- Ferrocarril Guanajuato a San Luis de la Paz y Pozos[21]
- Ferrocarril Hidalgo y Nordeste[22]
- Ferrocarril de Hornos
- Ferrocarril Inter-California
- Ferrocarril Interoceanico
- Ferrocarril Ixtlahuaca[21]
- Ferrocarril Jalapa y Cordoba
- Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway
- Ferrocarril Mapimi[23]
- Ferrocarril Matehuala[24]
- Ferrocarril Merida a Calkini[25]
- Ferrocarril de Merida a Peto[26]
- Ferrocarril Merida a Valladolid[27]
- Ferrocarril Mexicali y Golfo
- Ferrocarril Mexicano (FCM)
- Ferrocarril Mexicano del Sur[28]
- Mexico North Western Railway
- Ferrocarril Michoacan y Pacifico[24]
- Ferrocarril Monte Alto y Tlalnepantla[29]
- Monterrey Mineral and Terminal Railway[29]
- Ferrocarril Nacozari[30]
- Ferrocarril Nacional de la Baja California
- Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México (N de M, also FNM)[31]
- Ferrocarril Oaxaca a Ejutla[29]
- Ferrocarril del Pacifico (FCP)
- Panuco Mountain and Monclova Railroad[32]
- Ferrocarril Parral y Durango[32]
- Ferrocarril Peninsular de Merida-Yucatan[25]
- Potosi Central Railroad[32]
- Ferrocarril Potosi y Rio Verde (FPyRv)
- Rio Grande, Sierra Madre & Pacific Railway (see Mexico North Western Railway)
- Ferrocarril San Gregorio[33]
- Ferrocarril San Marcos a Huajapan de Leon[34]
- Ferrocarril San Rafael y Atlixco[33]
- Sinaloa and Durango Railroad[35][36][37]
- Ferrocarril Sonora-Baja California (SBC)
- Southern Pacific of Mexico
- Ferrocarril de Tacubaya
- Ferrocarril Tlacotepec a Huajapan de Leon[34]
- Ferrocarril Toluca y Zitacuaro[38]
- Ferrocarril Toluca a Tenango y San Juan[38]
- Ferrocarril Torres a Prietas[38]
- Tehuantepec National Railway (see Ferrocarril Transismitico)
- Ferrocarriles Unidos del Sureste (FUS)
- Ferrocarriles Unidos de Yucatán (U de Y)
- Ferrocarril del Valle de Mexico[39]
- Ferrocarril Vanegas, Cedral, y Rio Verde[39]
- Ferrocarril Vera Cruz a Anton Lizardo y Alvarado[39]
See also
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- 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 Spanish only.
- El Chepe: Ferrocarril Chihuahua al Pacífico
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- ↑ http://www.nl.gob.mx/?P=metrorrey
- ↑ http://www.ste.df.gob.mx/
- ↑ http://www.metro.df.gob.mx/
- ↑ http://www.siteur.gob.mx/
- ↑ http://www.ferromex.com.mx/
- ↑ http://www.kcsi.com/corporate/kcsm.html
- ↑ http://www.ferrovalle.com.mx/
- ↑ http://www.ferrosur.com.mx
- ↑ LFCD
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- ↑ now called Pacific Imperial Railway
- ↑ Best p.61
- ↑ Best p.40
- ↑ G & W no longer mentions Ferrocarriles Chiapas-Mayab
- ↑ Best p.64
- ↑ Best p.65
- ↑ Best p.67
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 Best p.68
- ↑ Best p.35
- ↑ Best p.69
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 Best p.70
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 Best p.53
- ↑ Best p.54
- ↑ Best p.50
- ↑ Best p.31
- ↑ 29.0 29.1 29.2 Best p.73
- ↑ Bernat, Andrew "The Alamogordo and Sacramento Mountain Railway - A Standard Gauge 'Cloud-Climber'" in Narrow Gauge and Short Line Gazette January/February 2004 pages 47-52
- ↑ FNM
- ↑ 32.0 32.1 32.2 Best p.74
- ↑ 33.0 33.1 Best p.77
- ↑ 34.0 34.1 Best p.36
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