Talk:Rail transport in Costa Rica

Article out of date
Unfortunately the information in this aticle is out of date. There is no longer a running railroad in San José. From what I could find out by talking to locals, it shut down at least a year ago largely because of costs incurred by vandalism. Most of the tracks are still intact but the RR museum is shut down. I changed some of the article statements to past tense and added a note to the effect that the trains no longer run. Unfortunately there seems to be no information about this posted to the web, and the official ticotraintour.com website is old. I'm currently waiting for email response from an official source. Lhoriman (talk) 20:05, 19 August 2008 (UTC)


 * This is what AmericaTravel says about the Tico Train Tour. Lhoriman (talk) 21:25, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your inquire.

At the present moment, we are not operating The Tico Train Tour all the way to Caldera Port on the Pacific due some maintenance on the tracks. It will be running again by november this year. We hope so!

However and instead, we are operating our Train & Rodeo Tour to Balsa in Atenas. This tour operates only certain days on weekends, for September it will running on the 13-14 and on the 28th, depending on the number of passengers registered.

Attached you will find a brief description of this tour and some pictures.

Price per person is $39.00 round trip and includes LUNCH and other activities at the farm.

A reservation in advance must be made and we will confirm within 8 days

If you will like to join us, let us know as soonest you can.

Thank you.

Best regards,

Juan R. Paniagua Z. President & General Manager The Tico Train Tour by AmericaTravel Tel.: (506) 2233-3300 - Fax: (506) 2233-3311 Email: jpaniagua@americatravelcr.com www.ticotraintour.com - www.americatravelcr.com http://www.youtube.com/ticotrain San José - Costa Rica


 * Some of the information in this article is indeed out of date, and I am attempting to improve the accuracy and clarity of the article in general. However, the previous comments by Lhoriman are incorrect, as commuter services in San José were reinstated in 2005 and have been operating ever since. The AmericaTravel private tour train he mentions has not been running for several years due to an issue with a short section of the track to Caldera (I have explained this issue in my changes to the article). The official website of the Costa Rican railway administration (Incofer) is incofer.go.cr.Apolo2400 (talk) 23:38, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

As part of the changes I intend to make to this article over the next couple of days, I will be rationalising its structure. Currently, I plan to turn the sections "suburban rail" and "freight transport" into subsections of "current status", renaming "suburban rail" to "passenger transport". I will then rename "current status" to "Incofer network", and "Swiss railroad" to "tourist railways", adding more information about the Los Heroes railway already mentioned as well as another, similar railway (I personally feel that the current text reads too much like an advertisement for the hotel and restaurant in question). My most radical change will be to scrap the section "passenger transport overview", as I consider it to be inappropriately written (Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, not a journal in which to publish a running commentary on a particular subject). I will salvage and incorporate any accurate and relevant information into my "passenger transport" subsection before deleting it - in particular I will create a seperate subsection under "Incofer network" based on the current subsection "noise & accidents" but with a greater focus on the lack of safety systems at present and current work on installing rudimentary signalling and automated barriers and alarms at level crossings. I will not, however, be keeping detailed timetable or pricing information for the passenger services. I do not see the point in including this in the article as it is published on the official Incofer website and changes periodically. Lastly, I turn the section on the (withdrawn) FERISTSA proposal into a subsection of "history" and attempt to expand it slightly. I will be referencing wherever possible, with a preference for English language references (however there are few and I will have to continue to use some Spanish ones). Any comments on these plans are welcome - particularly from Aaron-Tripel! Apolo2400 (talk) 20:18, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Internet-Link to Costa Rica's National Railway Administration
In March 2015, the Internet page of INCOFER is: http://www.incofer.go.cr The address mentioned in the section "External Links" of the article (http://www.mideplan.go.cr/Modernizacion/instituciones/incofer.htm) does not work any more. - Riggenbach (talk) 18:58, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

Mapping
A map is a far easier way of describing a rail network. The following historic maps at 1:50,000 scale (link at External links) are the relevant ones: 17, 24, 27 to 29, 34, 40 to 42, 46 to 48, 72, 78, 79, 82, 84 to 89, 106, 126, 128 to 136. The linked site has a clickable index and a facility to download the maps. AdrianintheUK (talk) 07:31, 11 July 2024 (UTC)