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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 )
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
Map of first Mexican rail line between Veracruz and Mexico City Mexican Central Railway train at station, Mexico. Mexico's rail history began in 1837, with the granting of a concession for a railroad to be built between Veracruz, on the Gulf of Mexico, and Mexico City. However, no railroad was built under that concession.
Known as the Gulf Coast Lines, the system was created in three phases under three different railroads: The St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico (Phase 1 - June 1903), the Beaumont, Sour Lake & Western (Phase 2 - October 1903) and the New Orleans, Texas & Mexico Railway (Phase 3 - September 1909).
Manhattan City and Interurban Railway [2] Mexico Investment and Construction Company [1] [2] Earlier Mexico, Santa Fe and Perry Traction Company: Missouri Electric Railroad [1] Missouri and Kansas Interurban Railway [2] Oregon Interurban Railway [2] St. Francois County Railroad [2] St. Joseph and Savannah Interurban Railway [2]
Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway (MSTL) Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad (MKT) (also known as the "KATY") [14] Missouri Pacific Railroad (MP) National Transcontinental Railway (NTR) New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad; New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad; New Orleans & Nashville Railroad – see Uptown New Orleans. New York ...
In 1967, the railroad operated 9,041 miles of road and 13,318 miles of track, not including DK&S, NO&LC, T&P, and its subsidiaries C&EI and Missouri-Illinois. Union Pacific Corporation, the parent company of the Union Pacific Railroad, agreed to buy the Missouri Pacific Railroad on January 8, 1980. Lawsuits filed by competing railroads delayed ...
The coming of the railroad and irrigation made the Valley into a major agricultural center. In Hidalgo County, land that had been selling for twenty-five cents an acre in 1903, the year before the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway arrived, was selling for fifty dollars an acre in 1906 and for as much as $300 an acre by 1910.