afternoon rainy day when my age was in single digits.  I first saw it in color on AMC in the mid-

1980's.  It wasn't until recently that I was able to get a copy on DVD to view.  It's a classic western

picture in glorious Technicolor with cowpokes, Indian attacks, even a cameo by Marilyn Monroe,

with a narrow gauge steam train running through it all.

The locomotive is the former Rio Grande Southern #20, a three foot gauge 4-6-0 which is now

preserved at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden.  It was gussied up in a garish paint

scheme  for the movie, named the Emma Sweeny and filmed along the ex-

Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Silverton branch.

For filming closeups, the studio created a portable, lightweight replica of the locomotive which

was later used in the popular television series, Petticoat Junction.

A Ticket to Tomahawk's spectacular scenery re-kindled the public's interest in the D&RGW's

Durango to Silverton line and it is now a popular tourist destination in southwestern Colorado.

You can read what IMDb has to say about this movie by CLICKING HERE.