Wissenswertes

Both Hooper Atchley (Judge) and Edward Hearn are in studio records/casting call lists as actors in this movie, but they did not appear.

The premise of this movie is built around the first transcontinental railroad, which was a 1,912-mile continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Omaha, Nebraska/Council Bluffs, Iowa with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay.

This film made its initial USA telecast in Los Angeles Wednesday 12 December 1956 on KTTV (Channel 11), followed by Philadelphia Tuesday 25 December 1956 on WFIL (Channel 6) and by Seattle Wednesday 26 December 1956 on KING (Channel 5); in Chicago it first aired 28 February 1957 on WBBM (Channel 2), in Hartford CT 2 March 1957 on WHCT (Channel 18), in Portland OR 8 March 1957 on KGW (Channel 8), in Minneapolis 3 May 1957 on KMGM (Channel 9), in Altoona PA 30 May 1957 on WFBG (Channel 10), and in Norfolk VA 1 July 1957 on WTAR (Channel 3); in San Francisco it was first shown 9 November 1958 on KGO (Channel 7); its earliest documented telecast in New York City presently stands at Tuesday 30 July 1963 on WCBS (Channel 2).

Final film of Edward Ellis, who retired from acting after this role.