FILM: Fiction - A Ticket to Tomahawk

Films are powerful double spiritual mirrors.

The Tomahawk & Western Railroad is fictional, as are the towns of Epitaph and Tomahawk. The train scenes were filmed on the Silverton Branch of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad near Rockwood, Colorado. This location was also used in several other Western films, and is now part of the Durango & Silverton tourist railroad.

The steam locomotive that stars in the film, known as Emma Sweeny, was actually Rio Grande Southern #20, a 3-foot-gauge 4-6-0 Ten-Wheeler built by the Schenectady Locomotive Works in 1899.

• Dan Dailey as Johnny Behind-the-Deuces

• Anne Baxter as Kit Dodge Jr.

• Rory Calhoun as Dakota

• Walter Brennan as Terence Sweeny

• Charles Kemper as Deputy Chuckity Jones

• Connie Gilchrist as Madame Adelaide

• Arthur Hunnicutt as Sad Eyes

• Will Wright as Dodge

• Chief Yowlachie as Pawnee

• Victor Sen Yung as Dodge

• Marilyn Monroe as Clara (uncredited)

• Olin Howland as Railway Conductor (uncredited)

• George Melford as Stationmaster (uncredited)

• Charles Stevens as Trancos (uncredited)