Western Pacific's CZ was a movie star in 1955. The movie was only the second Cinerama film produced. "Cinerama Holiday". It took three months to film the CZ section. They had to pull a dome car and modify it to for the huge Cinerama Camera. Here's a few shots from the press book. It's a fun film that allows the viewer to look back when the Zephyr was a premier train. You can still watch it on Blu-Ray HD. Don
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Very cool Don!
Making this Eastern boy wishing he had the outwest connections!
Thanks for sharing!
Mark Riggle Michigan
Cinerama must have liked trains. There was a train fight scene in "How the West was Won".
Neat! Wonder if that dome is the Silver Feather, now running on the Arkansas and Missouri? 
Mitch
@RoyBoy posted:Cinerama must have liked trains. There was a train fight scene in "How the West was Won".
Well, there were 31 films considered to be Cinerama (including the 70mm single projector system,) trains appear in only three that I can recall: Cinerama Holiday, The Wonderful World of Brothers Grimm (The German "Der Adler" train near the end) and How The West Was Won.
There were two train sequences in HTWWW. There was also the railroad building chapter right before intermission.
Rusty
Looks like a shot on the floor of the Royal Gorge in Colorado, looking up at the bridge above. Wonder if that Can~on City tourist train will run in the Gorge after the plague?
@colorado hirailer posted:Looks like a shot on the floor of the Royal Gorge in Colorado, looking up at the bridge above. Wonder if that Can~on City tourist train will run in the Gorge after the plague?
I don't think it's the Royal Gorge bridge, a suspension bridge with a wooden plank floor. On second glance, would you say that it appears to be in Feather River Canyon on the Western Pacific?
Right you are Tom. The train in How the west was won at the end was shot in Arizona. Don
A site with some more frames from the movie:
https://obscuretrainmovies.wor...nerama-holiday-1955/
It is in agreement with Tom that it's the Feather River Canyon - near Pulga, Calif., with California 70 bridge above.
David
@scale rail posted:Right you are Tom. The train in How the west was won at the end was shot in Arizona. Don
On the Magma Arizona Railroad to be precise. The locomotive was Magma's #7, a 2-8-2. The studio built a boxy phony shell around #7's Vanderbuilt tender to make it look older.
Rusty
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