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This trestle is still visible from highway U.S. 95 in the canyon below. The Halfmoon Trestle was most famously featured in the 1975 film Breakheart Pass, where a scene featured train cars and soldiers falling from a derailment on the trestle.
Oct 1, 2011 · Get Updates. Q On which railroad was the 1975 movie “Breakheart Pass” filmed? — Klaus Schmidt, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y. A “Breakheart Pass” was filmed on the Camas Prairie Railroad, a short line in Northern Idaho. Originally a cooperative building effort by predecessors of the Union Pacific and the BNSF in the early 20th century, as of ...
Railroad scenes were filmed on the Camas Prairie Railroad (based in Lewiston). The hire of the train (Great Western Railway steam locomotive #75) carriages and track cost $500,000 (approximately $2,831,000 today).
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The 1975 film Breakheart Pass starring Charles Bronson was filmed on portions of the railroad, as were parts of 1999's Wild Wild West. In Lewis County, there are 26.1 miles of track through Reubens, at an elevation of 3,525 feet.
Dec 25, 1975 · Breakheart Pass: Directed by Tom Gries. With Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna, Jill Ireland. John Deakin is being transported, as a prisoner, on a train with supplies and medicine to Fort Humboldt, Nevada.
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The Camas Prairie Railroad was known as the "railroad on stilts" due to the many wooden trestles along its route. In one five-mile (8 km) stretch, there were more than a dozen trestles. In addition to its wooden trestles, the railroad's second subdivision also had a sizable steel viaduct, 1,520 feet (460 m) in length with a maximum height of ...
At the height of the frontier era, a train races through the Rocky Mountains on a classified mission to a remote army post. But one by one the passengers are being murdered, and their only hope is the mysterious John Deakin, who's being transported to face trial for murder.
