How the west was won (the movie)

[cnwfan51]

Just finished watching this movie this morning, One of my favorites by the way, I was wondering if any movie buffs/rialnuts know where the final scene was filmed the wreak is pretty coom Larry

[AgentKid]

I'm not familiar with this movie, but the best place to look up movie info is www.imdb.com Once you get to the movie your looking for, scroll down to filming locations. The info may be straight forward or you may have to do some guesstimating. If models were used, sometimes they will tell you that in the trivia section. It's not an exact science but it should give some decent answers.

 AgentKid

 

[twhite]

Larry: 

The spectacular and exciting train robbery and wreck in HOW THE WEST WAS WON was filmed on the Magma Arizona Railroad in southern Arizona.  The locomotive and caboose were the property of the Magma Arizona railroad, the flat cars and coaches were the property of MGM, the releasing studio, and originally came from several western railroads including the Sierra and the Virginia and Truckee.   If you watch the 'wreck' very carefully, you'll notice that hardly any of the RR equipment is actually 'wrecked', only derailed.  It's the cutting and editing of the sequence that gives you the impression that the train has actually been destroyed.  It's a pretty terrific sequence, isn't it?   

Also, the locomotive used in the initial sequence, where it pulls into the mining town, is ex-Virginia and Truckee #11, which was owned by MGM for a number of years after they purchased it from Paramount Pictures (which used it in their own railroad epic UNION PACIFIC in 1939).   It is not, however, the locomotive used in the robbery sequence.  It is, however, the locomotive used also in the "Railroad" sequence of HOW THE WEST WAS WON (this time with a Diamond stack), where the Indians wipe out the construction camp with the buffalo stampede. 

Fun movie.  I remember seeing it in Cinerama in the theater when it first came out in the 1960's.  It was a real thrill ride.

Tom

[cnwfan51]

Thank you so much for the info Thats the reason I ask thse type of questions here  Some one always knows the answers   Larry 

[Kootenay Central]

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[Great Western]

 In the days when folks didn't mind watching black and white movies the Keystone Cops were often on tv over here.

From memory, it is a while since I last saw a KC movie, there were many with trains in them;  I guess they were 4-4-0 Americans, 4-4-2 Atlantics or 4-6-0 Ten Wheelers in the main.  I am sure someone will know.

I know that Keystone refers frequently to The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Railroad  but had wondered about the name. 

[DSchmitt]

Great Western

I know that Keystone refers frequently to The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Railroad  but had wondered about the name. 

 

The Ketstone cop movies were made by te Keystone Film Company.  I don't know where it was located.

Edit Keystone was located in Edendale, California., a district of Los Angeles now lnown as Echo Park.

[rio grande forever]

This film was surely a classic. I saw it in 1963 in 3-strip Cinerama and it blew you away! For those that have Blu-Ray Hi Def available, get this film and watch it in the Smilebox version. On a large screen, you have Cinerama in your living room! It's great.