PASSENGER TRAIN INFORMATION

MEXLIST does not arrange passenger travel. However, because we receive frequent inquiries, we try to provide information. This page is updated as needed and contains the most complete information available to us at any given time. The last update was on November 27, 2007. Since frequencies, schedules, and entire operations are subject to change, MEXLIST cannot guarantee the current accuracy of such information. Please submit any updates and corrections.

The Mexican federal government discontinued subsidies to almost all scheduled intercity passenger trains in January 2000. On the few trains that remain, total ridership has been reported to average about 4,800 passengers per week, 92 percent of whom traveled the route between Chihuahua and Los Mochis. All routes currently believed to operate are detailed below.

Ferromex operates excellent trains on two routes:

  • Chihuahua-Los Mochis
    (two trains per day each direction)
  • Guadalajara-Amatitán-Guadalajara
    (two round-trip tours per week)

The Chihuahua-Los Mochis service is known as Chepe. This is the famed "Copper Canyon" route. There is one "Primera Express" train and one "Clase Económica" train daily in each direction. The Tequila Express tourist excursion trains operate on Saturdays and Sundays on the Guadalahara-Amatitán route. These Ferromex routes are operated with full passenger trains of modern equipment. More information is available via the links in this paragraph.

All other surviving regularly scheduled passenger trains are state-subsidized social services for residents of remote places, information is extremely difficult to obtain beyond the local areas. These trains could have been changed or discontinued, and we might not have learned of it yet. These are the routes last believed to operate:

  • Cañitas de Felipe Pescador-Torreón
    (one train per week in each direction; one air-conditioned coach)
  • Cañitas de Felipe Pescador-San Isidro
    (one train per week in each direction; one air-conditioned coach)
  • Cuatrociénegas-Sierra Mojada
    (passengers accommodated in cabooses of freight trains)

The following operators run passenger trains or cars on tours or excursions within or into Mexico. These range from ultra luxurious cruise trains to very basic. Frequencies range from regularly to rarely. See each web site for details:

There are urban passenger rail systems in Mexican cities as follows: