Inauguración del Ferrocarril de Tehuantepec, Salvador Toscano (23-1-1907).webm

A series of films produced by Mexican film director Salvador Toscano showing scenes of the inauguration of the Tehuantepec Railway, opened by President Porfirio Díaz on 23 January 1907. This railway initially became the best alternative to the Strait of Magellan, the route used to transport cargo from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific and vice-versa. When the Panama Canal opened in 1914, at the height of the Mexican