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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.
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.
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
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.
Map of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway, showing its connections and extensions also the relative position of Denver and Pueblo to all the principal towns and mining regions of Colorado and New Mexico.
Jun 17, 2023 · The Denver and Rio Grande (1952) Mark Franklin June 17, 2023 1950s. Edmond O’Brien is Jim Vesser, supervisor of construction of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. His line is in a race with the Canyon City and San Juan Railroad to cross the Rockies first, and the construction foreman for that line — Sterling Hayden as McCabe– will stoop ...
Aug 17, 2022 · When the first Denver and Rio Grande train passed through the upper reaches of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison in August 1882, the passengers gazed with wonder at the steep walls above them, the cascading waterfalls and the towering granite point of Curecanti Needle.
