Description:
Exterior photo showing a passenger train powered by a Baldwin-built diesel-electric locomotive making a station stop at Saltillo, Mexico in 1946. The National Railways of Mexico train is the southbound Aztec Eagle, which ran between Mexico City and Nuevo Laredo, across the Rio Grande from Laredo, Texas. The locomotive is a "centipede," a 12-axle, twin-engine, 3000-h.p. behemoth developed in 1945. The photograph appears on p. 471 of More Classic Trains by Arthur Dubin (Kalmbach, 1974).
