FERISTSA
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FERISTSA is the name of a proposed 2500km US$ 3 billion standard gauge railway to link Central America to Mexico and thus to the USA and Canada. The main cargo would be containers from ports in Panama, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Guatemala.
The FERISTSA, or a start of it, is one of the top 40 infrastructure projects recognised in March 2007 as significant for Latin America. [1]
Currently, standard gauge track does not extend continuously south of Mexico and many of the existing narrow gauge lines to the south are abandoned, disconnected, derelict or disused.
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- The FERISTSA goes North-South from Mexico (and thus the United States) to Panama and beyond, and complements the Trans-Andean Railways which go East-West.
Branch lines would be required to serve:
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