Classic route
Tren Interoceánico
Salina Cruz → Coatzacoalcos · Mexico
Tren Interoceánico in pictures
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- Distance
- 308 km
- Fastest time
- 6 h 20 min
- Average speed
- 49 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- Ferrocarril del Istmo de Tehuantepec
- Train
- FIT 3000-series diesel
- Countries
- Mexico
- In service since
- 2023
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The 1907 Tehuantepec route reborn in 2023: ocean to ocean across Mexico’s narrowest waist, from Pacific salt winds to the Gulf refineries.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 15967322 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 42 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 12 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Ferrocarril del Istmo de Tehuantepec — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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