San Antonio Zoo is celebrating the 52nd anniversary of "The Great (Little) Train Robbery" today, with special rides on the San Antonio Zoo Train.
Each train ride will host a guided audio tour of the event that took place 52 years ago on July 18, 1970, when passengers aboard the Brackenridge Eagle winded through the park and into history when two masked robbers looted the miniature train. What happened that Saturday in July became known as "the Great (Little) Train Robbery." The crime marked itself in regional and state history as the first time in 47 years that a train had been robbed in the Wild West and the last known train robbery in the state.