Originally Posted by
Section 107
No, but one of these days I am going to take the family on that train ride....I believe it is one of, if not the, last passenger trains in Mexico.
True. We used to have a number of trains with passenger service.
The elite service was the international Aztec Eagle, between Mexico City and St. Louis MO. I rode it a number of times (via San Luís Potosí, Monterey, Laredo, SAN Antonio, etc.)
The quirky was "El Calamazo" as it was called, an autocar made in Kalamazoo that ran in the south.
The Cuernavaca - Mexico City steam narrow gauge (via Tepotzlán) took over four hours, but was a blast from the past with great scenery (train as seen in the original "The Magnificent Seven")
In the 1970s we took the overnight sleeper (1940s Pullman) from the city to Guadalajara.