RGS #20 in the movies... Ticket to Tomahawk is now on YouTube

The film Ticket to Tomahawk - which has been difficult to find - is now on YouTube!  The entire movie!

http://youtu.be/2CyT4Q53Lds

If you're not familar w/ this film, it's a goofy but fun western shot along the D&RG's Silverton Branch and a few parts of the RGS (bridge 160-A, and flatlands near Hesperus). Marilyn Monroe also made a very early apperance here - one of her first films I believe.  She's uncredited, but is the yellow-dressed dancing girl, who appear about 30 minutes in.

The 'star' of the movie is RGS #20, along with one of the RGS cabooses - both dressed up rather  gaudily.  The film company needed the locomotive to be pulled along dirt roads, and - I think - actually attempted that with the real locomotive, which was far too heavy.  They ended up building a very detailed wooden copy.

Today, the real #20 is ungoing a massive rebuild, while the wooden duplicate has been returned to Durango and is being put on display.