Re: RGS Depot changes ownership (links)

Carol M. Highsmith photo

Interesting True Grit "then and now" video on this page. I think the C&TS and D&S would be well served to have a similar themed video on their websites for use in promotion of their Hollywood connection(s).

Ridgway Colorado in the Movies

and the walking tour of Ridgway is described here:

Walking tour of True Grit in Ridgway


Also note this posted comment regarding RGS caboose 0400 used in True Grit:

When Mattie Ross arrives at the depot in the film, a train is simulated by a caboose with steam blowing past it on the far side of the depot building. That was a Rio Grande Southern caboose owned by the 1968 equivalent of the chamber of commerce. It is now at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, fully restored. The caboose on display at the Ridgway Railroad Museum is not the same caboose. To enhance the effect of a train, a smoke machine hidden behind the building provided the “steam”, and the caboose moved by being towed by a Jeep. This scene is at about the 5:00 mark.




True Grit



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/26/2016 10:37PM by rod.