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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.
Kansas City Southern de Mexico KCSM (Formerly TFM) Ferrocarril Coahuila-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.
The Mexican Railway (Ferrocarril Mexicano) (reporting mark FCM) was one of the primary pre-nationalization railways of Mexico.Incorporated in London in September 1864 as the Imperial Mexican Railway (Ferrocarril Imperial Mexicano) to complete an earlier project, it was renamed in July 1867 [1] after the Second French Empire withdrew from Mexico.
Ferromex (reporting mark FXE) (syllabic abbreviation of Ferrocarril Mexicano, 'Mexican Railway') is a private rail consortium that operates the largest (by mileage) railway in Mexico with combined mileage (Ferromex + Ferrosur) of 12,100 kilometres (7,500 mi) and is often classed with North American Class I railroads.
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 ...
Incorporated in Colorado in 1880 as the Mexican National Railway (Ferrocarril Nacional Mexicano), and headed by General William Jackson Palmer of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway, it completed a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge main line from Mexico City to Nuevo Laredo in September 1888 after an 1887 reorganization as the Mexican National Railroad.
Mexican Central Railway train, between 1884 and 1897 1903 map of the Mexican Central Railway and connections Written on this photo taken between 1911 and 1914 is "despedida de los constitucionalistas" (waving goodbye to the Constitutionalists) for soldiers standing on top of S.P. de M. railroad cars during the Mexican revolution
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 ...