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Bridge across the Río Fuerte at El Fuerte El Chepe at terminal station, 8 February 2009. The Ferrocarril Chihuahua al Pacífico (Chihuahua-Pacific Railway), also known as El Chepe from its reporting mark CHP, is a major rail line in northwest Mexico, linking the city of Chihuahua to Los Mochis and its port, Topolobampo. [3]
Operating Train Name Railroad Train Endpoints started ChePe [2] Chihuahua al Pacífico and Ferromex: Chihuahua, Chihuahua – Los Mochis, Sinaloa: 1928 (partial service) 1961 (line completed) Tequila Express [3] Ferromex: Guadalajara, Jalisco – Amatitán, Jalisco: 1997 El Insurgente: Zinacantepec, Mexico - Lerma, Mexico: 2023 Interoceanico
Creel-Sierra Tarahumara is a railway station located in Creel, Chihuahua.The station is an important point on El Chepe, because both the Chepe Express and the Chepe Regional serve the station.
Ferromex hosts the Ferrocarril Chihuahua al Pacífico "ChePe" railroad, a tourist line that runs through the Copper Canyon. Ferromex also operates the Tequila Express , which runs from Guadalajara to a tequila distillery in Amatitán .
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]
Los Mochis is the western terminus of the Chihuahua-Pacific Railroad (El Chepe), which passes through the scenic Copper Canyon. This railway was approved by President Porfirio Díaz as a trade route linking the cattle markets in Kansas City with the nearest port on the Pacific Ocean, Topolobampo.
El Fuerte was a chief trading post for silver miners and gold seekers from the Urique and Batopilas mines in the nearby mountains of the Sierra Madre Occidental and its branches. [ citation needed ] In 1824, El Fuerte became the capital city of the newly created Mexican state of Sonora y Sinaloa (reaching up deep into modern-day Arizona).
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.