A new Ferrocarril del Pacífico GE U30C at GM&O Glenn Yard, Chicago, IL on way to delivery on December 22, 1969.
(Roger Puta, courtesy Marty Bernard from U.S.A., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) i
FERROCARRIL DEL PACIFICO
The Ferrocarril del Pacífico is a former railroad line of Mexico that operated from Nogales, Sonora to Guadalajara, Jalisco via Mazatlán, Sinaloa.
It ran passenger trains between these points: El Yaqui and Mexicali, Nogales, Sonora to Guadalajara, Jalisco via Benjamín Hill, Sonora and Mazatlán, Sinaloa; and shorter routes: Mazatlán - Naco and Guadalajara - San Marcos.
It was absorbed into Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México in 1984.
FCP Alco RSD-12 at Nogales, Sonora.
(Clay Gilliland, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Reporting mark: FCP
Locale: Sonora/Jalisco
Dates of operation: 1950–1987
Successor: Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México
Technical
Track gauge: 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
FCP No. 604, an ALCO Century 628, leads a short freight through Nogales in 1975.
Clay Gilliland, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Mexico’s Ferrocarril del Pacífico (FCP) - National Railways of Mexico, Part 3
In this video, C. Vision Productions and videographer Dan Hadley take you back to the early 1990s, as we tour Mexico’s Ferrocarril del Pacífico between Guadalajara and the Southern Pacific interchange in Nogales. Officially the “Región Pacífico” of the FNM by this time, the spirit of the Pacífico Railway was still present in all aspects of the operation.