Greg, 268 was indeed there....I did not post the entire story.....this shows 268 was there.
The stars and staff of the Holt film crew became fire fighters on July 1st when a forest fire broke out and threatened to destroy the movie set and railroad equipment. The stars of the movie including Edmond O’Brien, Dean Jagger, J. Carrol Nash and more than thirty other members of the crew joined to help put out the fire when Director Bryon Hasking stopped filming and got everyone aboard the film train powered by 268 for a high speed ride to the fire scene. The D&RGW crew on 268 hooked up a hose to pump water from the Animas River. The fire was halted before it did any damage to the movie set or equipment.
During the filming, the 268 became a real hero to 115 tourists riding the regular Silverton train. The routine summer time tourist train, powered by K-28 number 473, was returning from Silverton on Wednesday, July 11 with cars of ore and several passenger cars including the Silver Vista observation car, when 473 derailed and ran into the river at Mile Post 483.75 on a weakened right-of-way which caused the rails to spread. Only the brakeman, Martin Rhodes, was injured when he leaped from the engine. A railroad motor car (speeder) following the train, backed into Silverton and sent a message to Rockwood where the movie equipment with 268 was wrapping up their work for the day. The 268 and the available coaches, backed up from Rockwood to the scene of the derailment 13 miles south of Silverton where the tourists had been waiting for five hours with only coffee made by the crew for sustenance. Some of the passengers had to sit on the coach floors of the rescue train which did not reach Durango until midnight.
The 473 was pulled out of the river using a D-7 Caterpillar and hauled back to Durango by K-28 number 478.
On the last day of filming, July 23, 1951, 268 was given a temporary maroon paint job, renumbered 116, and lettered for Santa Fe railroad’s never built “Canon City and San Juan” subsidiary.
