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"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)
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.
(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).
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 )
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 Southern Pacific Railroad of Mexico (reporting mark SPM) [1] was a railroad subsidiary of the Southern Pacific Railroad in Mexico, operating from Nogales, Sonora, to Mazatlán, Sinaloa. The Sonora Railway was constructed by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway between 1879 and 1882. In 1898 the Santa Fe leased the Sonora Railway to the ...
The National Railroad of Mexico gained control in 1901 after the death of Collis P. Huntington of the SP, and in June 1910 the government-owned Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México (National Railways of Mexico) took over the property.