Denver and Rio Grande

Denver and Rio Grande (1952)

TWO FIGHTING RAILROAD CREWS BATTLE FOR THE ONLY RIGHT OF WAY!

Jim Vesser and his team of railroading men try to build a rail line through a mountain pass, while a group of less scrupulous construction workers sabotages the entire operation in the hopes that they can get their tracks laid first and get the money from the railroad.

Date of release
1952-05-16
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (16)
Runtime
1h 29m
Genres
Western
Director
Byron Haskin

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Colorado

Denver and Rio Grande is a 1952 American Technicolor Western film directed by Byron Haskin and starring Edmond O'Brien, Sterling Hayden, Dean Jagger, Kasey Rogers and Lyle Bettger.

Production

The film is a dramatization of the construction of the Denver and Rio Grande Western railroad, which was chartered in 1870. The film was shot in the summer of 1951 on location using actual D&RG track (now part of the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad) near Durango, Colorado.

The film's plot is a fictional account based on two factual right-of-way struggles in 1878-1879 between the D&RG and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. One fight occurred across the Raton Pass from Trinidad, Colorado to Raton, New Mexico, where an armed confrontation actually took place, and the other, known as the Royal Gorge War, involved a route between Cañon City and Leadville, Colorado."

Denver and Rio Grande features a spectacular head-on collision filmed on July 17, 1951 between two Denver and Rio Grande Western locomotives, C-18 #319 and C-19 #345 (painted as the #268), that were slated for retirement.

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