U.S. Border Patrol nabs smugglers by a surprise attack in El Paso, Texas. Border Patrol men on horses. Smugglers cross the Rio Grande River. Border Patrol men try to hide themselves. They capture smugglers and take them away.
U.S. President Lyndon B Johnson and Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz tour the US-Mexican Dam known as Lake Amistad Dam, and the International Bridge between Del Rio Texas and Ciudad Acuna Mexico. View of the dam and International Bridge. Dignitaries at the dam site exchange greetings and talk. President Johnson at the podium in Ciudad Acuna addresses Mexican people. President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz claps in the background. High altitude view of the dam under construction
Iron ore mine in U.S. Miners drill for iron ore. Cars filled with ore coming out. Men separate ore. View of mountains near mine. Conveyors fill railroad cars with coal. Railroad cars bear labeling for D&RGW or Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad.
In final year of passenger operations, a Denver and Rio Grande narrow guage railroad train is seen traveling through Black Canyon in Gunnison National Park, Colorado. Interiors of the train filled with passengers in a holiday mood. Interior of passenger cars is old fashioned. View of ceiling lamps in the car. The train travels along the river and through mountainous terrain. Water springs from a hole in a mountain, creating a waterfall, seen from roof of the train. A river spills over a mountain in a large waterfall. The train crosses a bridge over the river and enters Black Canyon, where it follows the river bed between towering peaks on both sides. The engine of the train belches heavy black smoke as it struggles up a grade crossing a bridge. it continues to follow close to the river. Several fishermen turn to wave at the passengers. Gradually the mountains open wider as the train proceeds on its way.
U.S. soldier with shouldered rifle stands guard beside the Rio Grande river, separating the United States from Mexico, in 1913. A dog stands next to him. The river is rushing in the background. View of extensive stakes and barbed wire lining the U.S.Mexico border. U.S. soldiers perform changing of the guard at a checkpoint on the U.S. side of the border between the U.S. and Mexico. Two new American sentries replace those being relieved. Signs on the fence identify the respective country boundaries. Mexican refugees (mostly women and children) flee the revolutionary combat taking place in Mexico. U.S. soldiers monitor as they cross into the United States, and direct some passing inside a trench manned by American soldiers along the border. Scene shifts to an official looking building guarded by U.S. soldiers. Several Mexican men, including Pancho Villa leave the building, accompanied by two or more Americans. (One American, wearing glasses , and carrying a cane. is dressed in a white suit, and wears a bow tie and Edwardian style summer straw hat. Next, Pancho Villa is seen with a number of his soldiers. A group of Mexican men relaxing at a shaded table near rustic structures. Large cacti frame the foreground, where a girl is walking toward them. Closeup of the men gathered around the table.
Lodges covered with snow on a snowy mountain pass near Cumbres, Colorado. A narrow gauge train of the Rio Grande San Juan Extension (later the Cumbres and Tultec Scenic Railroad) plows its way through the snow of a Rocky Mountain pass near Cumbres. The locomotive engine of the train is equipped with a rotary snowplow that clears away the deep snow from the tracks. The train approaches two men waving.
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