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This is a list of Mexican railroads, common carrier railroads operating as part of rail transport in Mexico. This transport-related list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items . ( August 2008 )
"American railroad unions and the national railways of Mexico: An exercise in nineteenthâcentury 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)
Many passenger trains of the Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México were named after the city they connected Mexico City's Buenavista station with. Therefore, the Jarocho (a Spanish word meaning a person from Veracruz) was the name given to the train that went from Mexico City to the Port of Veracruz via the former Mexican Railway.
Metro train in Mexico City. Ferrovalle locomotive in workshop. Mexico privatized its freight rail service with the dissolution of the former Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México freight service in 1998, leading to significant improvements and modernization in the sector. Today, the country boasts a robust rail network primarily operated by ...
Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México (better known as N de M and after 1987 as Ferronales or FNM) or National Railways of Mexico was Mexico's state owned railroad company from 1938 to 1998, and prior to 1938 (dating from the regime of Porfirio Díaz), a major railroad controlled by the government that linked Mexico City to the major cities of Ciudad Juárez, Nuevo Laredo and Matamoros on the U ...
The Mexico, Cuernavaca and Pacific Railroad, owner of an unfinished line from Mexico City to Acapulco (completed to Rio Balsas), joined the system in November 1902, and in 1905 the Mexican Central bought the Coahuila and Pacific Railway (Torreón to Saltillo), which paralleled the branch from Gómez Palacio to Monterrey and was to be operated ...
(The Michoacán and Pacific, Interoceanic, and the latter's subsidiaries remained separate companies.) [3] [5] Following privatization for freight service in the 1990s, the old National Railroad of Mexico, including most of the Interoceanic, formed the majority of Transportación Ferroviaria Mexicana (now Kansas City Southern de México).
Pages in category "Railway companies of Mexico" ... List of Mexican railroads; B. Baja California Railroad; C. Canadian Pacific Kansas City; Carrizo Gorge Railway; CG ...