Line Z (Tren Interoceánico)
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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.
EMD F59PH locomotive at Salina Cruz station, Oaxaca, Mexico.
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
2025 Oaxaca train derailment
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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
Line Z (Tren Interoceánico)
…then, while the new stations will also open: Coatzacoalcos, Jáltipan, Jesús Carranza, Ubero, Sarabia, Lagunas, Nizanda, Comitancillo and Tehuantepec. A derailment of Line Z near Asunción Ixtaltepec, Oaxaca, on 28 December 2025 left 13 people dead and around 100 more injured. On January 27, 2026, the Attorney General's…
Claudia Sheinbaum in 2025