The creation of a train, with a route of more than 1,500 kilometers in the southeast of Mexico, one of the areas with the greatest economic backwardness in the country, under the direction of a tourism organization to help distribute and promote to the industry… The idea sounded unrealistic when it was first raised in 2018, during the campaign of the now president Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

However, three years after the idea became known, the construction of its seven sections has begun and the National Fund for Tourism Promotion (Fonatur) promises that the first phase will be inaugurated in 2023.