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This vocabulary list has been put together from the modules: "Spanish reading passage: Informe para el viajero de ferrocarril" and "Spanish reading passage: Previos de pasaje por ferrocarril." It is intended for AP Spanish language and college-level Spanish language students.

This vocabulary list can be combined with lesson plan modules that use historic train price lists and traveler information, "Spanish reading passage: Informe para el viajero de ferrocarril" and "Spanish reading passage: Precios de pasaje por ferrocarril" . It can also be combined with excerpts of your own choosing from De México a Chicago y Nueva York: guía para el viajero en la que se describen las principales ciudades y ferrocarriles.

This is intended for AP Spanish language and college-level Spanish language students.

The mexican central railroad

Train
Image from Part I of De México a Chicago y Nueva York: guía para el viajero en la que se describen las principales ciudades y ferrocarriles .

Vocabulary list
aduana customs
añadir/añadirse to add
billete ticket (see also: boleto, pasaje)
boleto ticket (see also billete, pasaje)
cama doble double bed (in a Pullman train)
cambio change, exchange rate
cantidad quantity
cataratas waterfalls; Cataratas de Niágara- Niagra Falls
cobrar charge
coche-dormitorio sleeping car (in a Pullman train)
convertir change
cruz/crucecita cross, little cross †
cualquier, cualquiera any, whichever
directo direct, nonstop
eligir choose
empalme junction
enterarse to find out
entero complete, roundtrip
ferrocarril railroad, train
frontera border
gabinete parlor (in a Pullman train)
la cual which, the one which
libra pound
llegada arrival
mayor older than, greater than
moneda foreign currency (literally means “coin”)
partida departure
partir to depart
pasaje ticket (see also: billete, boleto)
precio price
precios corrientes current prices
previo aviso prior notice
primera/segunda clase first/second class
punto point
ramal branch (of the railroad)
recorrer to cross, traverse
ruta route
sección section (in a Pullman train car)
según according to
soler to usually do something, tend to do something
sujetos a cambio subject to change, can change
suma sum
tren train
veloz fast

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Source:  OpenStax, Glossaries and vocabulary lists. OpenStax CNX. Aug 29, 2011 Download for free at http://cnx.org/content/col11317/1.10
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