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 August 26, 2009. 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, almost all passengers travel on the route between Chihuahua and Los Mochis. All routes known to operate are detailed below.

Ferromex operates excellent trains on two routes:

  • Chihuahua-Los Mochis
    (ten trains per week in 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 daily in each direction. There are three additional Clase Económica" trains per week in each direction. The Tequila Express tourist excursion trains operate on Saturdays and Sundays on the Guadalajara-Amatitán route. These Ferromex routes are operated with full passenger trains of modern equipment. Schedules and other information are available via the links in this paragraph.

There is only one other surviving regularly scheduled passenger train in Mexico:

  • Cañitas de Felipe Pescador-Torreón
    (one train per week in each direction; one air-conditioned coach)

This train, subsidized by the Estado de Zacatecas, is operated by Ferromex on Friday and Sunday evenings for school teachers who commute from Torreón, Coahuila.