[1] It was operated Ferrocarril Sonora Baja California between Mexicali a Benjamín Hill, and by Ferrocarril del Pacífico between Benjamín Hill and Guadalajara.

[2] Today, many of the villages near the stations through which the train passed, are practically uninhabited, because the reason they existed was to sell food to passengers on the railway, as the service disappeared the villages were empty as a result of privatization and the extinction of passenger transport.

The duration of the train was approximately 44 hours throughout and had 56 stops throughout the route.

[3] The train journey from Guadalajara lasted two days, and the train convoy was split in two when it reached Benjamín Hill station; this for El Costeño to continue to Nogales and the rest to continue to Mexicali.

The train cars were hauled by EMD GP40-2 locomotives after the 1970s.