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[railwayhistorical]

Rail Over the Border

Here's a southbound train crossing over the border in Nogales, Arizona into Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. A Border Patrol Agent told me this happens six to eight times a day.

The train rolled up slowly to the gate, which is right in the center of town, it stopped for a few minutes (presumably to change crews, as I had seen vans with drivers waiting), and then continued south at a slow rate. After the last car rolled through, the gate was closed.

The line south out of Tucson is now of the Union Pacific; the line on the other side of the border is Ferromex (which is short for Ferrocarril Mexicano—while that sounds like a national line, it is now a private consortium).

Going back in time, the route here on the US side was originally that of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (operating under the name of the New Mexico and Arizona Railroad) while the rail line on the Mexican side was originally the Sonora Railway (funded by the ATSF so that they would have access to the port of Guaymas on the Pacific.

Six images by Richard Koenig; taken May 3rd 2024.

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Ferromex suspends routes amid migrant surge

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[trainsgenderfoxgirl2816]

Actually I've got some spicy takes about tren Maya, they shouldn't have started building it since there was existing Right-of-way they could of used but since they cleared the Right-of-way they absolutely have to finish it because the Right-of-way is the most expensive and damaging part of the process and it's also the first step of building a railroad after planning and surveying, and while yes they shouldn't have started it when they had existing rail lines they could have upgraded, that ship has sailed Tren Maya is about 95% complete and moar tren moar good usually because Train good car bad, even if it is being built for the wrong reasons once construction begins you NEED to finish it otherwise you get all the bad with none of the good

Also they are Electrifying it and hopefully they rebuild the old Mexican railroad system especially considering lots of people are nostalgic for the NdeM (National Railroads of Mexico) which was a very good system until they sold it off to Union Pacific, Kansas City Southern, and Genesee & Wyoming in the 90s (keep in mind all of those Railroads are American although KCS just merged with Canadian Pacific)

As someone from Mexico I feel deeply obligated to let the US left know that Claudia Sheinbaum is neither of these things and while having a women rule the country for the first time is a historic achievement it is not the win you think it is

She is of jewish descent and made one statement for Palestine but never pressured the mexican goverment to break ties with Israel and one of her proposals as a president is to give the military here ( that btw is trained by the Isr*eli army) more power

As the mayor of Mexico City she constantly used the riot police against protestors and allowed the use of tear gas ( which she later claimed wasn't true)

She calls herself a feminist but always refused to acknowledge the wave of violence Mexico faces against women ( 11 women dissapear every day in Mexico) She has also knowingly made men accused of SA part of her campaign team

She also supports "Tren Maya", a project that caused massive ecological devastation in the mayan jungle and facilitated military violence against indigenous communities

You don't live here, you don't know shit so please don't push this kind of narrative idolizing these people

this is not a win for us

[adiariomx]

Se espera que este jueves inicien los trabajos de construcción, en el Centro Histórico de la Ciudad. Ciudad Juárez, Chih (ADN/Arturo Hernández) - La ...

[gamboagarcia]

Gracias de antemano por sus comentarios Construirán Pasos Peatonales Sobre Vías del Ferrocarril El Director de Desarrollo Urbano, José Eleno Villalba Salas, dio a conocer el inicio de la construcción de tres puentes peatonales sobre las vías del ferrocarril que cruzan la ciudad. En un término no mayor de tres semanas se licitarán las obras de dos de los tres puentes peatonales: el que se ubicará en la intersección de Avenida 16 de ... Sigue leyendo: https://www.adiario.mx/estado/juarez/construiran-pasos-peatonales-sobre-vias-del-ferrocarril/?feed_id=157150&_unique_id=6651096e1ee74

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Desenganchan vagones de tren de Ferromex para dejar varados a los migrantes

Con el objetivo frenar su recorrido por México, más de dos mil migrantes, la mayoría de Venezuela, fueron abandonados en Zacatecas, luego de que los vagones del tren en el que viajaran fueran desenganchados por personal de Ferromex, informó la fotoperiodista Flor Castañeda. A través de sus redes sociales, Castañeda denunció que estos hechos ocurrieron el pasado viernes 29 de septiembre entre…

[razorsrockinart]

A Mexican..

So anyways meet Diego the Ferromex diesel from Mexico. Diego is bilingual and very fluent in both English and Spanish. However as the obvious, his main language is Spanish.

Diego mostly works in Mexico, but often comes down to other places to do work. He has tons of fellow rolling stock friends. Diego had arrived on April 1st, 2015 (the official year the first 10 of them were delivered) and he was the first one. Pulling freight all over Diego is a very hardworking diesel engine who works day and night.

(More info on Diego will come later on)

[beardedmrbean]

HUEHUETOCA, Mexico (AP) — A Mexican railway operator announced Tuesday it is temporarily suspending train runs in the northern part of the country because so many migrants are climbing aboard freight cars and getting hurt in the process.

Ferromex said it has temporarily ordered a halt to 60 trains carrying cargo that would fill 1,800 tractor trailers. It said some international trade would be affected by the stoppage.

In recent days, there have been about a "half-dozen regrettable cases of injuries or deaths” among migrants hopping freight cars, the company said in a statement.

The company, owned by conglomerate Grupo Mexico, said some migrants even hopped on moving freight cars “despite the grave danger that represents.”

“There has been a significant increase in the number of migrants in recent days,” Ferromex said in the statement, adding that it was stopping the trains “to protect the physical safety of the migrants,” while it awaited action by authorities to solve the problem.

But the word had yet to trickle down to the migrants themselves, hundreds of whom waited on the tracks and alongside them at a railway yard in Huehuetoca, on the northern outskirts of Mexico City.

Pavel Aguilar Flores, a migrant from Venezuela, was hoping to hop a freight train to Matamoros, a dangerous Mexican border city across from Brownsville, Texas.

“We haven't heard any news,” Aguilar Flores said. “We are going to continue on our journey, and in fact we're waiting for a train.”

“I have heard there have been accidents, but not so many as people say,” he said. “You have to be careful and get on the train when it's stopped, not when it's moving.”

In fact, trains were still running through the railyard at Huehuetoca Tuesday evening, but they weren't heading where the migrants wanted to go.

According to Ferromex, the worst problems appeared to be further north.

The company said there were about 1,500 people gathered at a rail yard in the city of Torreon, in the northern border state of Coahuila. The company also reported about 800 migrants waiting at the freight yards in Irapuato, in the north-central state of Guanajuato.

About 1,000 people were reported to be riding freight cars on the train line that connects the city of Chihuahua and the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez.

Ferromex is Mexico's largest concessionary rail operator and the impact of the train stoppage will be “very important,” said Ana Bertha Gutiérrez, the international trade coordinator for the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness. She noted the measure could hit industrial states like Nuevo Leon, Baja California and Chihuahua hard, given their links to the U.S. market.

Migrants have long used the trains, known collectively as “The Beast," to hitch rides from as far south as Oaxaca state to the U.S. border. About a decade ago, the Mexican government briefly staged raids on the trains to discourage the practice, but later largely abandoned the effort.

The announcement comes as migrants are increasingly desperate to reach the U.S. border.

On Monday, migrants mostly from Haiti burst into an asylum office in southern Mexico city of Tapachula.

Throngs of migrants knocked over metal barricades and pushed past National Guard officers and police stationed at the office. Some of the migrants were trampled by their colleagues in the rush.

Authorities later convinced many to leave, and no injuries were reported.

Crowds of frustrated migrants, including many from Cuba and Honduras, say they have had to wait for weeks in some cases for an appointment at the office in Tapachula, near the border with Guatemala.

At the office, run by the Mexican Commission for Refugee Aid, migrants can file claims for asylum in Mexico. Most, however, intend to use the papers to travel more safely and easily to the U.S. border.

Mexico is on track to receive more asylum applications this year than ever before as the flow of migrants threatens to overwhelm governments of several Latin American countries along the migratory route.

Andrés Ramírez Silva, the director of Mexico’s refugee agency, said last week that the number of asylum applications his agency receives this year could reach 150,000, well above the 129,000 record set in 2021.

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Day 20: GE Evolution Series

Info from Wikipedia:

The Evolution Series is a line of diesel locomotives built by GE Transportation Systems (now owned by Wabtec), initially designed to meet the U.S. EPA's Tier 2 locomotive emissions standards that took effect in 2005. The first pre-production units were built in 2003. Evolution Series locomotives are equipped with either AC or DC traction motors, depending on the customer's preference. All are powered by the GE GEVO engine.[4]

The Evolution Series was named as one of the "10 Locomotives That Changed Railroading" by Trains Magazine and was the only locomotive introduced after 1972 to be included in that list.[5]

The Evolution Series locomotives are some of the best-selling and most successful freight locomotives in United States history.

Currently, six different Evolution Series models have been produced for the North American market. They are all six axle locomotives and have the wheel arrangement C-C (AAR classification) or Co′Co′ (UIC classification), except for the ES44C4 which has an A1A-A1A wheel arrangement and the meter-gauge version developed for the Brazilian network ES43BBi which is B-B-B-B.

The ES44DC (Evolution Series, 4,400 hp, DC traction) replaced the Dash 9-44CW model in the General Electric catalogue. Primary users are BNSF Railway, CSX Transportation, and Canadian National Railway. Pilbara Iron in Australia ordered a lengthened, international version designated ES44DCi. The extra length is used for a larger radiator to increase cooling capacity in the Australian outback.

The ES44AC (Evolution Series, 4,400 hp, AC traction) replaced the AC4400CW model in the General Electric catalogue. These locomotives have been ordered by every Class I railroad in North America: Union Pacific Railroad (who refers to these locomotives as the C45ACCTE), BNSF Railway, CSX Transportation, Norfolk Southern Railway, Kansas City Southern Railway, Kansas City Southern de Mexico, Ferromex, Canadian Pacific Railway, and Canadian National Railway.

The ES44C4 (Evolution Series, 4,400 hp, C to denote 3 axles per truck, 4 traction motors) was introduced in 2009. While similar to the ES44AC, the ES44C4 has two traction motors per truck, instead of the conventional three such as on the ES44AC. No ES44C4s with DC traction were built. The center axle of each truck is unpowered, giving an A1A-A1A wheel arrangement. BNSF Railway is the launch customer for this model, ordering an initial batch of 25 units numbered 6600–6624.

The ES44C4 was initially only built for BNSF. The 4200s and units 7921-7999 are certified as Tier 4 Credit units, while the others are Tier 2 or Tier 3. On 30 January 2014 Florida East Coast Railway announced that they would buy 24 ES44C4s, to be numbered 800–823, for heavy haul service and intermodal traffic. All were delivered by the end of 2014, in order to beat the EPA's deadline on exhaust-emissions standards for new-built Tier 3 locomotives.

A feature of these units is a variable traction control system in their computer systems. One of the differences between an ES44AC and an ES44C4 are the air cylinders and linkages on the truck sideframes of the ES44C4; these are part of the traction control system. Every time a variation in grade, traction, or wheel slip occurs, the computer adjusts the pressure in these cylinders to maintain sufficient adhesion, by varying the weight on the drive axles.

The ES44DCi (Evolution Series, 4400 horsepower, DC traction, international version) was built for the Rio Tinto railway in Australia. The ES44ACi was built for the Roy Hill and Rio Tinto Group.

Rio Tinto's units can be remotely driven, meaning nobody has to be in the cab as they can be controlled from a control center.

The ES44ACi/DCi is essentially an ES44AC/DC in a GE AC6000CW's body, with the radiator at the end protruding out over the rear deck in the same way the AC6000CW does. The locomotive's large radiator allows it to handle the Australian outback's extreme temperatures.

Roy Hill has ordered 21 ES44ACi locomotives, and is currently in possession of all 21 locomotives (numbered 1001 "Ginny"-1021). Rio Tinto ordered 100 ES44DCi locomotives and has all 100 (numbered 8100–8199) and 21 ES44ACi locomotives (numbered 9100–9120) and more are on order.

Ferromex also acquired 50 ES44ACi. As the construction of these locomotives was subsequent to the new environmental laws of the US, GE cataloged them only as ES44ACi, although in the external technical specifications of the locomotives say ES44AC). These locomotives can no longer reenter the US operating.

The ET44AC (Evolution Series Tier 4, 4,400 hp, AC traction) replaces the ES44AC model. These locomotives have been ordered by most of the Class I railroads in North America, including Union Pacific, CSX Transportation, Norfolk Southern and Canadian National Railway. BNSF Railway will be receiving similar ET44C4 locomotives, which have no traction motor on the middle axle of each truck. CSX designates their ET44ACs as ET44AH, due to their locomotives being heavy-ballasted.

The TE33A is an export 1520 mm gauge locomotive in the GE Evolution Series.

The Evolution Series locomotives are visually similar to the AC4400CW, although small differences are evident. The most noticeable difference is the radiator section at the rear of the locomotive is larger to accommodate the GEVO's Air to air intercoolers. As with the AC6000CW, the radiators project beyond the end of the hood. On the ES44ACi and ES44DCi models, the radiator extends in the same way as the AC6000CW, protruding out over the rear deck. For the other Evolution Series locomotives, the radiator does not protrude completely over the rear deck, but rather sits nearly flush with the rear of the engine hood. Unlike previous GE locomotives, the grills under the radiator are at two different angles. The increase in radiator size is due to the necessity for greater cooling capacity in the locomotive in order to reduce emissions. The other major difference between the Evolution Series and earlier models are the vents below the radiators, which are larger than those on previous GE locomotives.[11] Also, all Evolution Series units have air conditioners mounted below the cab on the conductor's side.

In 2002, GE and UGL Limited launched the Evolution Series locomotive, and in 2009, continued their partnership for another 10 years for UGL to distribute and sell GE locomotives in Australia.

Transnet Engineering in South Africa has a license to manufacture 233 4,200 hp (3,100 kW) 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) Cape gauge ES40ACi locomotives for Transnet Freight Rail, with core components including GEVO-12 engines supplied from the United States.

The first six of these Class 44-000 locomotives were built in Erie, Pennsylvania in April and July 2015. In October 2015, the first of the 227 South African-built locomotives was nearing completion at Transnet Engineering's Koedoespoort shops in Pretoria.

Models and Route by: , JointedRail Auran, and Download Station.

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Ferromex #4669 por Jim Strain Por Flickr: Soiuthbound 4669 (ES44AC) leading a Union Pacific freight @ Dupo, Il. We are all waiting for the appearance of 844. (110682)*

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CIF/FOB Gulf Grain-Soybean, corn barge bids firm on signs of demand Oct 15 (Reuters) - Basis bids for corn and soybeans shipped by barge to Gulf Coast export terminals turned higher on Tuesday as futures continued to slump and buyer interest grew, traders said. Meanwhile, FOB bids - particularly for soybeans - rose sharply, though there were limited spot offers, traders said. The U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed private sales of 131,000 metric tons of U.S. soybeans for delivery to China in the 2024/25 marketing year. USDA confirmed private sales of 120,000 metric tons of U.S. soft red winter wheat for delivery to Mexico in the 2024/25 marketing year - though traders expected that to move by rail. Mexican rail consortium Ferromex and U.S. railroad company Union Pacific Corp have stopped issuing permits for some grain rail shipments moving through Eagle Pass, Texas, after a recent train derailment in Mexico closed the track. The disruption marks the latest in a string of grain freight rail backlogs at the border. Low river levels are causing some barge delays on interior rivers, traders said. CIF December soybean barges traded at 86 cents over Chicago Board of Trade January soybean SF25 futures. November soybean barges also traded at 103 cents and 104 cents over November soybean SX24 futures. CIF soybean barges loaded in the February-March period also traded at 73 cents over CBOT March soybean futures SH25; and barges loaded in the April-May-June-July period traded over futures. CIF October soybean barges were bid 4 cents higher at about 104 cents over CBOT November soybean futures. FOB offers for November soybean shipments jumped up 15 cents at around 128 cents over futures, and December offers rose up 5 cents to 102 cents over January SF25 futures. CIF corn barges loaded in October were bid 4 cents higher at 78 cents over CBOT December CZ24 futures. FOB Gulf offers for November corn shipments rose 1 cent to about 115 cents over futures, while offers for December shipments rose 3 cents to about 115 cents over futures.

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Frena descarrilamiento de tren comercio de granos entre México-EEUU

Agencias/Ciudad de México.- El consorcio ferroviario mexicano Ferromex y la compañía estadounidense Union Pacific Corp dijeron que han dejado de emitir permisos para algunos envíos ferroviarios de granos que se mueven a través de Eagle Pass, en Texas, después de que un reciente descarrilamiento de un tren en México cerró la vía. La detención es una medida temporal hasta que el tráfico de trenes…

[encontrasteveracruz]

Entrena Ferromex a Protección Civil de Córdoba para atención de emergencias químicas

#EnContrasteVeracruz #Córdoba Córdoba, Ver.- Personal de la Unidad Municipal de Protección Civil de Córdoba recibió capacitación para la atención de emergencias químicas en el sistema de transporte ferroviario, fue impartido por la empresa Ferromex  del Grupo México, informó Jorge Tress Martínez, titular de Protección Civil.Dijo que la ciudad de Córdoba se encuentra en una zona estratégica y de…

[adiariomx]

Ferromex invertirá 400 mdp mientras que el Municipio participa como gestor y asesor de las obras. Ciudad Juárez, Chih (ADN/Arturo Hernández) - Cruz P...