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["Melchor Ocampo" in Fraile]
A combine second and first class coach, No. 7 named "Melchor Ocampo" is the rear-end car on the Coahuila and Zacatecas Railroad's passenger train which has made a station stop at the small town of Fraile on February 23, 1960. Along these narrow gauge rails in the early 1920s bandits frequently staged holdups of trains carrying payrolls in gold and silver to the mines at Concepcion del Oro.
Date:
February 23, 1960
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Train at Concepcion del Oro]
Coahuila and Zacatecas Railroad's Engine No. 7 has taken a long drink an a summer afternoon at the water tank located in the yards at Concepcion del Oro, preparing to head an ore consist. This was a mining town for many years where ore trains departed on frequent schedules for the Mazapil Smelter at saltillo, Mexico.
Date:
February 23, 1960
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mr. Castaneda
Photographic portrait of Dr. Carlos E. Castaneda (1896-1958). Dr. Castaneda was a noted professor of Latin American History and librarian of The Latin American Collection at The University of Texas at Austin. The Perry-Castaneda Library bears his name and that of Dr. Ervin Perry.
Date:
February 23, 1949
Creator:
Douglass, Neal
System:
The Portal to Texas History