Passenger Trains in Mexico

https://www.mexperience.com/passenger-trains-comeback-in-mexico/

Passenger trains are coming back to Mexico. All aboard!

The first railway in Mexico was inaugurated between the port of Veracruz and El Molino in 1850. The initial segment, spanning 11.5 km, was built to standard gauge (1435mm). This line was a precursor to the more extensive network that would later connect Veracruz to Mexico City...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_in_Mexico#/media/File:HistoricalRailMapMexico.jpg

Fast forward to the 21st century. Low-cost airlines fly all over the country, interstate buses come equipped with toilets and movies, and long-distance passenger rail is beginning to make a comeback.

The idea began with the administration of President Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018), who had plans for a bullet-train from Mexico City to Querétaro, including a future extension to Guadalajara, a trans-peninsular passenger train joining the Yucatán state capital city of Mérida with the popular tourist region of Riviera Maya, and a train from Mexico City to the State of Mexico capital Toluca.

From the outset the projects were criticized as being unprofitable, which they evidently would be, but that wasn’t the point: the plan was to reignite the rail industry and recreate a modern high-speed passenger train network capable of reducing travel times along what have become highly congested highways and give passengers more choice in travel.

President Claudia Sheinbaum, who took office on Oct. 1, 2024, took up the baton and intends to continue expanding passenger rail service. Her government has resumed plans for a Mexico City-to-Querétaro train —but not a bullet train— and others in different parts of the country.

They include completion of the Tren Maya, the Mexico City-Querétaro project, the Interoceanic line crossing the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, several lines to the new Mexico City airport at Santa Lucía (including a stop on a new Mexico-to-Pachuca route), and others from Mexico City to Nuevo Laredo on the U.S. border, and Querétaro to Irapuato.

Just as the Tequila Train returns
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250523-the-return-of-mexicos-famous-tequila-express-train