Thanks to a friend of MEXLIST for sending us an undated old photo showing an early Mexican refrigerator car, which can be viewed at http://mexlist.com/temp/empacadora.jpg . The refrigerator car is the

An opinion piece published today on the Railway Age website, in English, discusses the railroad regulatory climate in Mexico. Un artículo de opinión publicado hoy en el sitio web de Railway Age, en in

Revista Américas was published 1949-2012, bimonthly in separate English and Spanish editions by the Organization of American States, containing general articles and information, mostly cultural and to

A friend of MEXLIST has asked for our help with information on NdeM ore hopper cars. He needs to know the lengths of the shortest ore hopper cars (30 feet and under) that NdeM owned and whether they w

MEXLIST member Ed Von Nordeck has sent us a link to scans of the Inter-California Railway's track plans in Baja California with various dates 1907-1926. Specifically, the scans are of the track plans

A news article from Laredo at https://bit.ly/30fvDvL reports the signing of the presidential permit for the proposed new international rail bridge that KCS is planning at that gateway. The surprise is

As I was writing the explanation of why I could not publish the images, permission to publish was sent by one of the two members who sent images to me. The ten photos and the video in the second batch

I received two photos of events at Delicias at 7:32 a.m. CDT this morning. They are described as follows: 1. Smoke and flames billow from the windows of a Ferromex car, which appears to be a bunk car.

On Tuesday night at 11:00 p.m. a group of farmers began to blockade the Ferromex main line at Delicias, Chihuahua, which is between the city of Chihuahua and Torreón. It seems that the farmers are ups

Yesterday, USA President Donald J. Trump signed a presidential permit for KCS to build and operate a new international rail bridge near Laredo, Texas. Presidential permits are required under federal l

I have just received information that Ferromex railcars, bunk cars, and one crane loaded on a flatcar have been burned in Delicias, Chihuahua. I do not have confirmation that this is associated with t

This page https://tinyurl.com/yxhxc2f2 from a site dedicated to the State Belt RR and successors lists two 0-6-0's going to Mexico in 1946. #9 to the Sinalona (sic) Sugar Co. as #9, Costa Rica, Sinalo

From the Sinaloa State Historical Archives, this article about the mill at Costa Rica, entitled "Origen y Ocaso del Ingenio Rosales (1947-1997). https://tinyurl.com/yy2s6nb9 MdelP steam returning to t

I have just accidentally found a news report in English at https://bit.ly/30HaUzX about a rail blockage on Ferromex near Guaymas, Sonora, that is in its tenth day. Lowell G. McManus Eagle Pass, Texas,

Beginning overnight, yard and road crews at Ciudad Frontera and Piedras Negras in the state of Coahuila went on strike against Ferromex, and by 10:00 a.m. today (Monday) the strike had shut down opera

This is a great site. Bob Yarger, the owner, frequently posts photos of Mexican steam. The latest are photos of Ch-P steam; UdeY steam and fate of same; and the California Western engine that went to

[NOTE: The document linked below is a very large PDF file (17.8 MB).--L.G.McM.] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Hello Everyone, I have just finished an FCP document

If you're at all interested in the fate of the passenger cars in Mexico that were acquired from the U.S., I encourage you to join the Railway Preservation News group or at least check out their site,

The pages of Wellington’s Economic Theory of the Location of Railways (1893 edition) cited by Mr Baxter can be seen with HathiTrust at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiuc.1586860&view=1up&seq=

I have been contacted by a gentleman in New Jersey who is a descendant of Frederick John Parkinson (1844-1907), who was an English civil engineer. He was apparently employed by the Mexican Central Rai