Rail

Market

October 9, 2026 · 6 min

The Parque Industrial Bajío hub, Michoacán: 342 ha beside Lake Cuitzeo, waiting for its environmental permit

The Michoacán hub was the first to be formalised and is named, on purpose, Parque Industrial Bajío. It has 342 ha in Zinapécuaro, named developers and 12.9 MW published, but as of October 2026 its environmental impact statement is still unresolved.

Market

October 9, 2026 · 5 min

The Puerta Logística del Bajío hub, Guanajuato: a rail node still waiting for works

52.41 ha next to Honda's plant in Celaya, with access to Ferromex and CPKC and MXN 2,500 million committed for phase 1. Guanajuato Puerto Interior now points to a construction start in Q2 2027, not Q1 2026.

Thesis

October 9, 2026 · 8 min

The Michoacán hub and Guanajuato: one corridor

Parque Industrial Bajío is in Michoacán, but its labour market, its basin and its rail outlet face Guanajuato: Acámbaro is 46 km away and Celaya 111 km along the same CPKC line. With the Celaya hub, it forms a pair on a single line. No government has framed it that way.

Infrastructure

September 29, 2026 · 5 min

Guanajuato's stake in the passenger train: stations, money and industry

Guanajuato does not pay for the train; the federal government does. Guanajuato's role is to be where the train stops: 11 planned stations across three lines. What the state gains depends on what gets built around them.

Infrastructure

September 28, 2026 · 6 min

The new Mexico City–Querétaro–Irapuato train: the logic and the money

The federal government is building 340 km of new double-track passenger railway from Mexico City to Irapuato for about MXN 191 billion, and plans another 303 km to Guadalajara for MXN 127.5 billion. What changed since 2014, and what to check before relying on the numbers.

History

February 17, 2026 · 4 min

A century without passenger trains: from the Mexican Central to freight concessions

Between 1910 and 1997 the Bajío kept its railway but lost its passenger train. The line survived as freight infrastructure; people moved to buses and cars on the highway built beside it.

History

February 3, 2026 · 5 min

The Mexican Central Railway: the line that made the Bajío

In March 1884 the Mexican Central tied Mexico City to the border at El Paso along the old Camino Real. Irapuato became a junction, and the station towns of that era are today's industrial cities.