Window hanging in Mexico
Not just a double-header but a rare triple-header set of photos for this week's Saturday Timewatch. All feature rail transportation used in Mexico during a visit ten years ago. You can see the other two here :
Given just a very general geotag location, this photo was taken on board the Primera Express Chihuahua Pacifico service from Chihuahua to the west coast at Los Mochos. Taken a decade ago in 2010, this 'fast' train had left Chihuahua at 06.00 arriving at 21.30. The journey is approximately 390 miles. A slower and presumably less comfortable but cheaper 'stopper' followed at 07.00, scheduled to arrive at 23.30.
Sadly, I gather that there is now just one train every couple of days and seems to be the only current passenger long-distance rail service in Mexico, though new ones are both being built and planned.
You are right to think this looks one heck of a gradient for the locomotives as the line climbs up to a maximum altitude at Divisadero of 2400 metres / 7847 feet. Should any of those who are more knowledgeable than myself about railways know anything about the traction being used, I'd be interested to learn more?
Window hanging in Mexico
Not just a double-header but a rare triple-header set of photos for this week's Saturday Timewatch. All feature rail transportation used in Mexico during a visit ten years ago. You can see the other two here :
Given just a very general geotag location, this photo was taken on board the Primera Express Chihuahua Pacifico service from Chihuahua to the west coast at Los Mochos. Taken a decade ago in 2010, this 'fast' train had left Chihuahua at 06.00 arriving at 21.30. The journey is approximately 390 miles. A slower and presumably less comfortable but cheaper 'stopper' followed at 07.00, scheduled to arrive at 23.30.
Sadly, I gather that there is now just one train every couple of days and seems to be the only current passenger long-distance rail service in Mexico, though new ones are both being built and planned.
You are right to think this looks one heck of a gradient for the locomotives as the line climbs up to a maximum altitude at Divisadero of 2400 metres / 7847 feet. Should any of those who are more knowledgeable than myself about railways know anything about the traction being used, I'd be interested to learn more?