July 9, 2023 - TRA Newswire -Tren Maya, also known as Mayan Train, is scheduled to open by the end of December this year. This major 965 mile Mexican intercity railway project will traverse through five states in the Yucatan...

June 1, 2022 - bnamericas.com -President Andrés Manuel López Obrador promised to revamp passenger train services in Mexico, which will create several challenges for the infrastructure, communications and transportation ministry (SICT).BNamericas spoke with the ministry's rail and multimodal development chief,...

March 25, 2020 - TRA Newswire - Amtrak President /CEO Stephen Gardner and Chief Financial Officer Tracie Winbigler met recently with U.S. Rep Henry Cuellar (D-Laredo) to discuss passenger service between San Antonio and Monterrey, Mexico. According to San Antonio radio...

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]March 2, 2022 - Bill Stephens, Trains.com - BNSF Railway has urged federal regulators to take steps to protect cross-border traffic to and from Mexico as part of any approval of the proposed Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger. But BNSF dropped its...

January 14, 2022 - TRAINS.com - BNSF Railway, in a Thursday regulatory filing related to the proposed Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern (CPKC) merger, said it may seek trackage rights on Kansas City Southern to reach the Mexican border at Laredo, Texas. The...

November 24, 2021 - BNAmericans.com - Mexican officials confirmed plans for a 400km high-speed train between Nuevo León state capital Monterrey and San Antonio in Texas. The idea emerged in the 1990s already, when the US, Mexico, and Canada signed the first...

September 1, 2021 - Randy Diamond, San Antonio Express-News - For more than three decades, politicians and rail advocates have dreamed of building a passenger train link between San Antonio and Monterrey, northern Mexico’s largest city. Each time, they’ve woken up with...

August 25, 2021 - mexiconewsdaily.com - The federal government (Mexico) is planning to launch an interurban train service to link Coahuila and Nuevo León to the border with the United States at Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. The passenger and freight train project will...

EXCLUSIVE - Updated August 5, 2021  - TRA Newswire - In a special Texas Rail Advocates online presentation Wednesday evening August 4th, officials of Mexico's state-owned rail system laid out how they want to address a passenger rail corridor between Monterrey,...

September 29, 2020 - TRA Newswire - Ongoing railroad blockades by protestors in Mexico are delaying shipments of crude oil and other products to and from U.S. ports of entry, according to rail officials. Measures to control Covid-19 have added to the...