Good Movie here is some background info
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The film is set on the Milwaukee Road’s Pacific Extension out of Harlowtown, Montana,
Danger Lights has some of the only known footage of the Milwaukee Road’s steam operations on the Rocky Mountain Division. During this time, the Milwaukee had electrified this portion of the line, however, you never see any of the Electric operations. Another interesting fact is that the name “Milwaukee Road” is never mentioned in the movie, but you can clearly tell, since the railroad Plastered its name where it could through out the movie. Here is a fact for the movie buffs.
I won’t go into much detail about the movie, but the movie is in Public Domain, so the copyright of the movie has expired, meaning that several small companies dealing in old movies has released the movie on DVD. You can also watch the entire movie on YouTube right here on the blog. Scroll down to the end of the post to watch the movie!
The movie was filmed on location on the Milwaukee Road’s Rocky Mountain division in 1930. This line was part of the Milwaukee’s Pacific Extension that extended the railroad from its Main core in Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa out to the Pacific Ocean. It was also the first Transcontinental route to be abandoned. When the Milwaukee Road filed for bankruptcy for the final time in the late 1970’s, The court appointed trustee decided to eliminate as many miles as possible from the railroad in order to save cost’s. In 1979, the entire route west of Terry, Montana was abandoned. It is Ironic that this line was abandoned, because it was the best engineered route through the west. At 1,100 mile, this was the largest abandonment of a railroad in history, until the next year, when the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific (Rock Island Railroad) completely abandoned its railroad (7,000+ miles). The Milwaukee did not last much longer, and in 1986, the railroad was bought and merged into the Soo Line Railroad.
