Editing Transport in Colombia (section)

===Railways===
{{main|Rail transport in Colombia}}
[[File:Mapa de Colombia (ferrocarriles).svg|thumb|200px|Railroads of Colombia]]

Colombia has {{convert|3,034|km|mi|sp=us}} of rail lines, {{convert|150|km|mi|sp=us}} of which are {{RailGauge|1435mm}} gauge and {{convert|3,154|km|mi|sp=us}} of which are {{RailGauge|914mm}} gauge. However, only {{convert|2,611|km|mi|sp=us}} of lines are still in use. Rail transport in Colombia remains underdeveloped. The national railroad system, once the country's main mode of transport for freight, has been neglected in favor of road development and now accounts for only about a quarter of freight transport. Passenger-rail use was suspended in 1992 resumed at the end of the 1990s, and as of 2017 it is considered abandoned (at least for long distances).<ref name="Champin, J. 2016 p. 35">Champin, J., Cortés, R., Kohon, J., & Rodríguez, M. (2016). Desafíos del transporte ferroviario de carga en Colombia, p. 35</ref>   Fewer than 165,000 passenger journeys were made in 1999, as compared with more than 5 million in 1972, and the figure was only 160,130 in 2005. The two still-functioning passenger trains are: one between Puerto Berrío and García Cadena, and another one between Bogotá and Zipaquirá.<ref name="Champin, J. 2016 p. 35"/>   Short sections of railroad, mainly the Bogotá-Atlantic rim, are used to haul goods, mostly coal, to the Caribbean and Pacific ports. In 2005 a total of 27.5 million metric tons of cargo were transported by rail. Although the nation's rail network links seven of the country's 10 major cities, very little of it has been used regularly because of security concerns, lack of maintenance, and the power of the road transport union. During 2004–6, approximately 2,000 kilometers of the country's rail lines underwent refurbishment. This upgrade involved two main projects: the 1,484-kilometer line linking Bogotá to the Caribbean Coast and the 499-kilometer Pacific coastal network that links the industrial city of [[Cali]] and the surrounding [[Colombian Coffee-Growers Axis|coffee-growing region]] to the port of [[Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca|Buenaventura]].<ref name=cp/>