2025 Oaxaca train derailment
Videos
On 28 December 2025, a Tren Interoceánico train derailed in Asunción Ixtaltepec, a municipality of the Mexican state of Oaxaca. The derailment killed 14 people and injured another 98. According to the
EMD F59PH locomotive similar to the derailed train
Claudia Sheinbaum in 2025
Line Z (Tren Interoceánico)
Videos
Line Z is a main line operated by Ferrocarril del Istmo de Tehuantepec connecting Coatzacoalcos and Salina Cruz on the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. It is leased to Ferrosur.
2025 Oaxaca train derailment
…Oaxaca. The derailment killed 14 people and injured another 98. According to the official investigation, the drivers oversped at the derailment curve. Line Z of the Tren Interoceánico was inaugurated in 2023 as a major infrastructure project under President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to develop southeast…
An illustration from Barnard's Survey of the Tehuantepec route.
Newspaper report of the completion of the Tehuantepac Railroad.
SS Texan, one of the freighters used on the Tehuantepec route