[Turntable at San Lazaro engine terminal]

Photograph of locomotive No. 67, a consolidation type 2-8-0, on the turntable in the San Lazaro engine terminal enroute from its roundhouse stall to servicing tracks. The "F.C. I." abbreviation on the tender is Ferro-carril Cuautla Y Ixtla" (Cuauta and Ixtla Railroad). In yesteryears this locomotive ran only on this 50-mile branch line. Soon it will head the National Railways of Mexico's narrow gauge passenger consist on the main line run from Mexico City via Cuauta to Puebla. This 3-foot gauge railroad system is one of the oldest in the Republic. It traverses one of the most picturesque routes in Mexico.
Date: June 1967
Creator: Peterson, Roland B.
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Passenger train crossing the Chinipas Bridge]

Chihuahua - Pacific Railway's transcontinental passenger train crossing one of 28 major bridges on the line between Chihuahua City and San Blas in Mexico. This is the Chinipas bridge, which is the highest, located at Kilometer 748. The height is 334.7 feet and the length is 958 feet. Circa 1965.
Date: 1965~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Train on the Old Mexican Railway]

The daylight train No. 51, eastbound, traverses a trestle on the Old Mexican Railway, over the electrified division between Esperanza and Paso del Macho, enroute from Mexico City to Veracruz in August 1964.
Date: 1964
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Rail Car crossing the Chinipas Bridge]

Fiat Diesel rail car crossing the Chinipas Bridge on the Chihuahua - Pacific Railway enroute through the Sierra Tarahumara (Copper Canyon) region of Mexico around 1968.
Date: 1968~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Chihuahua - Pacific Railway train on Santa Barbara Bridge]

Chihuahua - Pacific Railway's passenger train on the horse shoe curve of the Santa Barbara bridge in a region of mountain vastness in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico around 1963.
Date: 1963~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History