Mexicali (train)

Mexicali

Overview
Service type	Inter-city rail
Status	Closed
Former operator(s)	Ferrocarril Sonora–Baja California Ferrocarril del Pacífico
Route
Termini	Mexicali Guadalajara railway station
Stops	56
Distance travelled	2,145 km (1,333 mi)
Route map Mexicali Pascualitos Delta Victoria Coahuila Baja California Sonora Riito El Doctor Sánchez Islas Torres B. López Collada Gustavo Sotelo Puerto Peñasco Irigoyen Almejas El Sahuaro Las Enchilayas El Coyote Los Sapos Caborca Pitiquito Trincheras Ferrocarril Sonora–Baja California beyond here Ferrocarril del Pacífico Benjamín Hill Carbo Hermosillo Empalme Ciudad Obregón Navojoa Sonora Sinaloa San Blas Sufragio Naranjo León Fonseca Retes Culiacán Costa Rica Quila La Cruz Dimas Mazatlán Presidio Rosario Escuinapa Acaponeta Ruiz Tepic Compostela Tetitlan Ahuacatlán Ixtlán Guamúchil Barrancas Acaponeta La Quemada Guadalajara

The Mexicali, also called the Burro (donkey), was a passenger train between Guadalajara and Mexicali. It was operated Ferrocarril Sonora Baja California between Mexicali a Benjamín Hill, and by Ferrocarril del Pacífico between Benjamín Hill and Guadalajara.

Today, many of the villages near the stations through which the train passed, are practically uninhabited, because the reason they existed was to sell food to passengers on the railway, as the service disappeared the villages were empty as a result of privatization and the extinction of passenger transport.

The duration of the train was approximately 44 hours throughout and had 56 stops throughout the route.

Services

The train journey from Guadalajara lasted two days, and the train convoy was split in two when it reached Benjamín Hill station; this for El Costeño to continue to Nogales and the rest to continue to Mexicali.

The train cars were hauled by EMD GP40-2 locomotives after the 1970s. The composition of the train in 1968 was as follows:

• Standard consist: 10 coaches, 1 lounge car, and 2 sleeping cars (between Mexicali and Mexico City).
• Standard consist: 10 coaches, 1 lounge car, and 2 sleeping cars (between Mexicali y Guadalajara).

See also

• Rail transport in Mexico
• Ferrocarril del Pacífico
• Ferrocarril Sonora–Baja California
• El Costeño, the train's express counterpart