The Tijuana-Tecate Short Track was built between 1909 and 1919. By the summer of 1910, San Diego's first tourist trains crossed into Tijuana to arrive at the Agua Caliente hot springs, then known as the "Tia Juana Hot Springs." Since then, a series of bridges, tunnels and tracks passed by the Abelardo L. Rodriguez dam, arriving in Tecate.
These tracks did not only serve tourists, but transported merchandise. Eventually everything changed and the tracks ceased to function, in 2000 the government of Baja California receives on behalf of the Secretary of Communication and Transport (SCT) the railway's rights to transport passengers and merchandise, creating the Administrative Trust of the Tijuana-Tecate Short Track (ADMICARGA), whose objective is to rehabilitate, supervise, operate, and maintain the 71.4 kilometers (44.4 miles) of train tracks.
The tracks of the Mexican trains are clearly connected to the American tracks, however these belong to different companies; with some exceptions, such as the Intercalifornia Railway, which connects the Southern Pacific with Imperial Valley and Tijuana-Tecate which is part of the San Diego-Arizona railway.
In the beginning, the Tijuana-Tecate Short Track, which encompasses the kilometer 0 + 000 to the kilometer 71 428 of the Mexican territory, was created due to the necessity to transport American commercial goods inside Mexico. It was convenient to continue the railway through Baja California as it implied low costs and less geographic obstacles.
Oddly enough, over time these train tracks have been under construction or stopped operating… Continue reading article here
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