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The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad ( reporting mark DRGW ), often shortened to Rio Grande, D&RG or D&RGW, formerly the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, was an American Class I railroad company. The railroad started as a 3 ft ( 914 mm) narrow-gauge line running south from Denver, Colorado, in 1870. It served mainly as a transcontinental ...
Denver and Rio Grande is a 1952 American Technicolor Western film, directed by Byron Haskin and released by Paramount Pictures. The film is a dramatization of the building of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, which was chartered in 1870. It was filmed in the summer of 1951 on location on actual D&RG track (now the Durango and Silverton Narrow ...
Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad. Founded by Gen. William J. Palmer, a Union veteran of the Civil War, the Rio Grande started building a narrow gauge line south from Denver in 1871 toward Mexico. At its peak mileage in 1917, the Rio Grande was operating nearly 6,000 miles of track. On-line coal, bridge traffic with friendly connections, and ...
On Nov. 20, 1920 the D&RG was sold for $5 million, and on Nov. 30 the new owners incorporated the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad. Angry stockholders of the old company, who received nothing from the new D&RGW, held up the court’s confirmation of the sale for several months, but on Mar. 28, 1921 the court confirmed the sale.
Denver & Rio Grande: Directed by Byron Haskin. With Edmond O'Brien, Sterling Hayden, Dean Jagger, Kasey Rogers. A romanticized history of the building of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad in the Colorado mountains.
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- Drama, Western
- Byron Haskin
- 1952-10-03
The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (reporting mark DRGW), often shortened to Rio Grande, D&RG or D&RGW, formerly the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, was an American Class I railroad company. The railroad started as a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge line running south from Denver, Colorado, in 1870. It served mainly as a transcontinental bridge ...
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Synopsis. In the 1870s, while surveying land for a new branch of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, engineer Gil Harkness and construction foreman Jim Vesser learn that representatives from the Canon City & San Juan Railroad are also in the area. The hot-headed Jim confronts his competitors, who turn out to be Bob ...
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