Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad
Denver and Rio Grande is a Technicolor western film, directed by Byron Haskin and released by Paramount Pictures in 1952. The film is a dramatization of the building of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, which was chartered in 1870. It was filmed in the summer of 1951 on location on actual D&amp;RG track (now the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad) near Durango, Colorado.