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TICKET TO TOMAHAWK. 20th Century Fox, 1949.
This is a feature film. This movie is the story of the Tomahawk & Western, a fictional narrow gauge railroad in the Colorado Rockies in 1875. The railroad has to get the first train through to the end of the line so the railroad's charter will be fulfilled. Obstacles include a forty mile gap in the rails and a stage coach company that doesn't want the railroad built. Much of the movie was filmed along the Denver & Rio Grande Western's Durang-Silverton line. The Rio Grande Southern connection to this movie is the appearance of RGS 4-6-0 #20 as Engine #1, the "Emma Sweeney," of the Tomahawk &