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Kansas Pacific is a 1953 Cinecolor Western film starring Sterling Hayden as an Army engineer, John Nelson, who goes undercover to protect the construction of the Kansas Pacific Railway from Confederate sympathizers on the eve of the Civil War. The film, directed by Ray Nazarro, is a fictionalized account featuring sabotage, action, and a romantic subplot between Hayden's character and the daughter of the railroad contractor.
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00:02:29Now, what's the matter?
00:02:36Look at that!
00:02:37More riots in Kansas, bleeding Kansas.
00:02:52They're sure trying hard to start a war right here.
00:02:54Yeah, some of them are trying to stop one.
00:02:58They're trying to figure out who's going to what.
00:03:00What about those senators walking out like that?
00:03:03I'm telling you, Smokestack, this country is falling to pieces.
00:03:07Oh, no it ain't.
00:03:08It'll take a lot more than arguments for that to happen.
00:03:11And even if we do have a real shooting war,
00:03:14it can only end one way.
00:03:16Why?
00:03:20What the?
00:03:21How dirty, miserable, back-biting skunk.
00:03:46If I could just get my hands on one of them, I...
00:03:48There, Cal, look.
00:03:54Come on down here!
00:03:55Don't you shout at him, Cal.
00:03:57They can't hear you.
00:04:01That one waving his arm around looks like old man Bruce himself.
00:04:04Yeah, he's the only one that gets so mad.
00:04:06The rest of them are used to us by now.
00:04:08You're not supposed to do any killing, Janice.
00:04:10Who's killing him?
00:04:15Get back to the engine!
00:04:31Get us out of here, Smokestack.
00:04:33I'm going to send Junk on a telegram that'll melt the wires.
00:05:03I'll tell you this, then, General.
00:05:11It'll be impossible to finish the line by March
00:05:13unless you furnish me with a military guard
00:05:15to protect my construction crews.
00:05:17We're not at war, Mr. Johnson.
00:05:18That's why we can't send uniformed soldiers
00:05:20into a border state like Kansas at this time.
00:05:23The people who are tearing up my tracks
00:05:25and frightening my construction crews
00:05:27into quitting ought to know the United States Army's
00:05:29back in the Kansas Pacific.
00:05:30If they did, they might very possibly start shooting.
00:05:32The first shot is what starts wars, sir.
00:05:35And our object is to finish this railroad first
00:05:37so we can supply our entire system of frontier posts
00:05:41with men and equipment
00:05:42before a possible armed invasion from the south.
00:05:45All right, General.
00:05:47Even if you won't furnish troops,
00:05:48I'll try to get started again.
00:05:49Excuse me, sir.
00:05:50Ask Captain Nelson to come in, please, Sergeant.
00:05:58Who's Captain Nelson?
00:06:00He's an army engineer, Mr. Johnson.
00:06:02One of the best men we've got.
00:06:04I'm going to lend him to you.
00:06:05What do I need him for?
00:06:07I've got a good instruction.
00:06:08Boss, now he's as good a railroad man
00:06:09as you can find anywhere.
00:06:11Nelson won't interfere with him,
00:06:12but he'll get your railroad built if anybody can.
00:06:15Well, I don't see how.
00:06:16General, I've told you we need at least a troop of soldiers.
00:06:19And you assigned me one man,
00:06:21an army engineer who's probably never built
00:06:22anything bigger than a footbridge.
00:06:24The Kansas Pacific is a military project, Mr. Johnson.
00:06:29Come in.
00:06:35Captain Nelson reporting is ordered, sir.
00:06:37At ease, Captain.
00:06:38Nice to see you again.
00:06:40Thank you, sir.
00:06:41This is Mr. Sherman Johnson, Captain Nelson.
00:06:44How do you do?
00:06:45How do you do, sir?
00:06:46Naturally, the captain will handle this assignment
00:06:48wearing civilian clothes, Mr. Johnson.
00:06:50You'll identify him to your employees
00:06:52as a civilian engineer.
00:06:55All right, General.
00:06:56Now let's get busy.
00:07:01First, you've gone this far, is that correct?
00:07:06That's right.
00:07:07The end of track is 14 miles west of Rockwood, Kansas.
00:07:11We stopped construction there six weeks ago.
00:07:13We haven't moved an inch since.
00:07:15And so.
00:07:33Yeah, so I'm not going this far, too.
00:07:42Are you going to drink that coffee or you're just going to stir it until it evaporates?
00:08:03Oh, I'm sorry, Dad.
00:08:08Fine lunch, Miss Barber.
00:08:10Thanks, Gus.
00:08:11Where are you going?
00:08:11Outside.
00:08:12I think I'll polish up the engine a little bit.
00:08:15Again?
00:08:15What do you want to do?
00:08:16Wear it out?
00:08:17Oh, no.
00:08:18Well, then I think I'll chop some cooking wood for Miss Barber.
00:08:21That'll be fine, Gus.
00:08:22Thanks.
00:08:23You're welcome.
00:08:34Someday I'm going to take a 10-pound sledge to that pipe, and I hope it's in your ugly face
00:08:40when I do.
00:08:40I've been waiting for you to try that for 22 years now, you miserable Irish polecat.
00:08:47You're fired.
00:08:48You can't fire me.
00:08:50I quit two hours ago.
00:08:52And now that you two have finished your conversation for the day, why don't you play a little chess
00:08:56for a change?
00:08:57Chess.
00:08:57I'll help you with the dishes.
00:08:59Huh.
00:09:01You wait for the glass.
00:09:03Casey ever calls before noon.
00:09:18I wonder if...
00:09:19Ah, Casey's probably just lonely and wants to chat.
00:09:22Yeah, it couldn't be anything important.
00:09:49Telegram just arrived at the Rockwood office.
00:09:52It's for you, Dad, from Washington.
00:09:54Washington? I don't know anybody in Washington.
00:09:56What do you want them to do, send it back?
00:09:58Oh, tell Casey to open it up and read it to me.
00:10:01I mean send it to me.
00:10:03I already have.
00:10:05Hire the biggest crew possible and start laying track immediately.
00:10:09Smoke stack! This is it!
00:10:11What? This is what we've been waiting for!
00:10:13Wait a minute, there's more.
00:10:15Where are we going?
00:10:17What?
00:10:18I got a real problem.
00:10:19I'm sorry.
00:10:20I'll turn it to him.
00:10:21I'm sorry.
00:10:22I'm sorry.
00:10:23I'm sorry.
00:10:24I'm sorry.
00:10:25I'm sorry.
00:10:26I'm sorry.
00:10:27What?
00:10:29What?
00:10:30Barbara, you must have made a mistake.
00:10:33No, Dad, I wish I had.
00:10:35He can't do that to me.
00:10:37Why, I've been putting down track for 20 years
00:10:40without having any concerns.
00:10:42I'm not going to have any concerns.
00:10:44I'm not going to have any concerns.
00:10:46I'm not going to have any concerns.
00:10:49I'm not going to have any concerns.
00:10:51I'm not going to have any concerns about him.
00:10:54I've been putting down track for 20 years
00:10:56without having any construction engineer telling me how.
00:10:59I ain't going to stand for it.
00:11:01What have I been telling you all these weeks, Dad?
00:11:04This job's been a headache since the beginning.
00:11:06And Johnson knew it when he sent you out here.
00:11:08You're right.
00:11:09He just don't need me anymore.
00:11:10So instead of coming right out and firing me,
00:11:12he put somebody else in charge.
00:11:14I think you're both wrong.
00:11:16You're still the boss, Cal.
00:11:18This engineer will probably just supervise a little.
00:11:21Then when he sees how well things are going, he'll...
00:11:23They won't be going well.
00:11:24They haven't gone well since the day you started the Kansas Pacific.
00:11:27Oh, Dad, you belong back east.
00:11:29We can have a decent place to live and a little comfort.
00:11:32You've certainly earned it after 20 years of building railroads.
00:11:35And you won't have any trouble getting work back there.
00:11:37I should have listened to you in the first place.
00:11:40The sooner we can get packed, the sooner we can leave.
00:11:44Well, go on, Smokestack. Get ready.
00:11:47In the first place, I got nothing to get ready.
00:11:49And in the second place, I'm not leaving.
00:11:52What?
00:11:57I said I'm not leaving.
00:11:59I've worked for Sherman Johnson just as long as you have, Cal.
00:12:02I think he's a smart man and a fair boss.
00:12:05And I'm sure he has good reasons for any decisions he makes.
00:12:09Besides, well, it's not just my nature to quit something.
00:12:13I start.
00:12:15Smokestack, you and I have been together for over 20 years.
00:12:18Oh, I can get all the work I want back east. You know that.
00:12:21But, well, it just won't seem right if you don't come along.
00:12:26I'll miss you, Cal. You too, Barbara.
00:12:30Daddy's just trying to get you to change your mind.
00:12:33He'll come with it.
00:12:34No. I'm serious.
00:12:37I've never quit yet.
00:12:38And come to think of it, Cal, you never have either.
00:12:40Ah, this is different.
00:12:41Sure it's different.
00:12:42The country's about ready to bust wide open.
00:12:45And the line like the Kansas Pacific might help to hold it together.
00:12:48And you want to quit just because they're sending a construction engineer out.
00:12:52He's probably some kid just out of college who thinks you can build a railroad with a slide rule.
00:12:58Well, he'll need all the help he can get.
00:13:01So I'll stick around.
00:13:06He's got a point.
00:13:08Johnson must have some reason.
00:13:10It does look like we might have a war.
00:13:13Dad, don't you start talking about the war, too.
00:13:15What's the sense in worrying about something that'll probably never happen?
00:13:18Well, if we worry enough, maybe it won't happen.
00:13:21You're staying.
00:13:23I guess old Smokestack's right this time.
00:13:26We've handled these diploma boys before, you know.
00:13:29He'll learn soon enough to stay out of our way.
00:13:32Well, all right.
00:13:34But you've got to promise me one thing.
00:13:36If this man turns out to be impossible, we're leaving.
00:13:39I'm not going to let anyone push you around.
00:13:41Have you ever seen anybody push me around and get away with it?
00:13:45Besides you and your mother.
00:13:51I'd rather do that.
00:13:54Smokestack!
00:13:57Get that pile of tin warmed up and take us into town!
00:14:04You heard him, Gus.
00:14:05Fire up.
00:14:06We're going back to work.
00:14:14Take it away, Smokestack.
00:14:15Smoke's back.
00:14:45Good afternoon.
00:14:51Fill out the application and we'll let you know.
00:15:08Your bulletin board says no construction until further notice.
00:15:11That will all be changed when the boss gets here.
00:15:13Should be changed now I understand track layers are hard to get
00:15:20Mister do you want a job or don't you I've got a job my name is John Nelson
00:15:26John Nelson name sounds familiar. I knew some Nelsons in Providence, but they all had red hair
00:15:34Different Nelsons I expect I'm sure they are I'm the new construction engineer. Oh
00:15:39I see you must be the man of mr. Johnson telegraphed about that's right
00:15:49Have a chair
00:15:52Where will I find mr. Bruce on he'll be along any minute. You'll hear the engine
00:15:57Thanks, you figure out I'm making some changes around here. I expect very possibly
00:16:04Telegraph operators are even harder to find than track layers. I'll remember that
00:16:09After you have to use it. Thank you
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00:16:43What do you men want I'll tell you what we don't want you and your rebel friends I've told you before Corbin I live in this town and I'm gonna stay here
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00:18:25Oh hello Barbara nice to see you mr. Bruce and miss Barbara Bruce and Mr. Nelson your new construction engineer
00:18:31Well, how are you? How do you do sir?
00:18:33What's this all about?
00:18:35Just an ordinary fight mr. Bruce. I saw mr. Quantrill get jumped by three men and figured the odds were a little heavy
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00:18:43What was it all about your local citizens think the town of Rockwood might be better off if I live somewhere else?
00:18:47Corbin
00:18:52Are you all right? Yeah, I'm all right
00:18:54But if he's your new construction engineer when you go back to work on that railroad of yours, you'll go back without me
00:18:59One of your men mr. Bruce it was probably the best gang boss I had feelings are running a little strong in Kansas these days Nelson
00:19:09I'm from the south and I've made no secret where my sympathies lie I see good day Barbara
00:19:15gentlemen
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00:19:47They're hiring construction hands again bill looks like the whole town signing up starts out that way every time until we get busy
00:19:53Max you and stone and more a go and get yourselves jobs on the railroad you too Janice don't bunch up go in one at a time
00:20:00Right I'll go in and sign up
00:20:02Say who's this new fella Nelson they've got I don't know anything about him yet except that he's a construction engineer
00:20:08All you boys will get jobs. Keep your eyes on it. I got a feeling he might give us a little trouble
00:20:13We can give him more than he gives us I wouldn't be surprised if we can
00:20:17But don't be too obvious about it any of you that stunt you pull last month
00:20:22Shooting up Bruce and his men wasn't such a smart idea
00:20:26Why not?
00:20:27Because that kind of foolishness is likely to stir up more trouble than we want
00:20:31First thing you know they'll send troops here
00:20:33Good Yankee uniforms will make nice targets
00:20:37It isn't our job to start the war men
00:20:40We're here to stop that train or at least to delay it
00:20:43The longer we keep the Yankees from reaching their western forts by rail the more time will give the Confederacy to get ready
00:20:49What we're doing is important
00:20:52Very important
00:20:53And don't any of you forget it
00:20:55I'll tell you when it's time to start shooting
00:20:58Until that time you'll have to follow orders
00:21:01Are there any arguments?
00:21:06No arguments boss
00:21:07I guess some of us are just a little eager
00:21:09There'll be plenty of action for all of us before long
00:21:12Maybe even more than we want
00:21:15Good luck boys I'll see you here tomorrow night
00:21:17Right, come on
00:21:42All right, be here at seven in the morning
00:21:50Fill this out and sign at the bottom
00:21:54See, it's seven in the morning, next
00:21:57Fill it out and sign at the bottom
00:21:59There doesn't seem to be any problem hiring men
00:22:09Why should there be? The pay is good and so is the food
00:22:12It's never hard to get plenty of men
00:22:14The trick is to keep them
00:22:15Why don't you rest for a while, Mr. Bruce?
00:22:17I'll take over for you
00:22:18Suit yourself
00:22:29Fill it out and sign it
00:22:40Joe Farley
00:22:41All right, be here at seven tomorrow morning
00:22:44Uh, just a minute, Joe
00:22:46You look like a man who's done a little hunting and trapping
00:22:48Am I right?
00:22:50Yeah, that's right
00:22:51You own a good rifle?
00:22:52Sure
00:22:53I'd like you to bring it with you tomorrow morning
00:22:56Mr. There's nothing but a few jackrabbits out on the prairie
00:22:58I want you to be a railroad guard, Joe
00:23:00Sort of a policeman
00:23:02Pays the same
00:23:03All right?
00:23:05Yes, sir, sounds like a good idea to me
00:23:06Be glad to do it
00:23:08And if any of your friends have good rifles and know how to handle them
00:23:11Why, tell them to see me
00:23:12Right, sir
00:23:19What's the idea of that?
00:23:21It's for the protection of the railroad
00:23:22They're entitled to it, especially in these times
00:23:25How many of these armed guards you figuring on hiring?
00:23:27Many as we need
00:23:2840 or 50 if we have to
00:23:30You realize how much this is going to cost the company?
00:23:32We'll have to provide horses, cartridges, food, besides their pay
00:23:36That's not our worry
00:23:37We're here to build a railroad
00:23:39All right, you men
00:23:40Form another line around here
00:23:41We don't want to hang around here all day
00:23:46Fill it out and sign it
00:23:47Fill it out and sign it
00:24:17All right, let's go
00:24:18Let's go
00:24:23All right, get your back, sir.
00:24:45Good morning, Barbara.
00:24:46Nice day.
00:24:48I hadn't noticed, Mr. Nelson.
00:24:50You should.
00:24:51Sunshine and pretty girls go together.
00:24:53You don't say.
00:25:16Sorry, Fred.
00:25:17Why don't you watch those big clumsy feet of yours?
00:25:20I didn't do it on purpose.
00:25:21Get your heads off me.
00:25:23All right, get back to work.
00:25:25Stay out of the way.
00:25:27Let's go.
00:25:31Just a minute.
00:25:38Get out.
00:25:40You're through.
00:25:41Now listen, Nelson, that's no way to build a railroad.
00:25:43You can't fire a man just for stumbling.
00:25:45He didn't stumble.
00:25:47I was deliberate.
00:25:47You're crazy.
00:25:48Why would I want to see this man?
00:25:49You know why better than I do.
00:25:51Now get out of here.
00:25:51I'll throw you out.
00:25:52Take a good look at this man, and if any of you see him around here again, shoot him.
00:26:11And if anybody else has any idea about holding up construction, he can leave now.
00:26:18That was nice work, Gus.
00:26:25You saved the man's life by thinking fast.
00:26:33Hey, Nelson.
00:26:33A lot of things like that have been happening around here.
00:26:38I figured it was just bad luck.
00:26:40Some of it probably was, but not this time.
00:26:43I'm sorry I've overruled your orders.
00:26:46I didn't mean to do that.
00:26:47Oh, you didn't?
00:26:48No, you're the construction boss.
00:26:50I'm just an engineer.
00:26:56Whatever he is, we should have had somebody like him around here a long time ago.
00:27:07Six times nine is 54.
00:27:10Six times three is 18.
00:27:12And five is 22.
00:27:1423.
00:27:1523, that's what I said.
00:27:17Now, six times one is six, plus two is eight.
00:27:22That's 834 more ties we'll need by the end of the week, providing nobody quits.
00:27:27Or it's fired by our new construction engineer.
00:27:30Oh, he was right about firing that fellow today, Barbara.
00:27:32If we can weed out the troublemakers, maybe things will improve around here.
00:27:36Well, it seems to me there must be an easier way of doing it than half killing them.
00:27:40Now, look, even though you were brought up in a railroad car,
00:27:44there are some things about this business you don't understand.
00:27:46I understand it when I see someone trying to take away your job,
00:27:49and that's exactly what he's doing.
00:27:50Oh, no, he isn't.
00:27:52Now, if you'll just listen to me a minute, I'll...
00:27:54Come on in.
00:28:01Good evening.
00:28:02Hello, Nelson.
00:28:03I'd like to talk with you if you're not busy.
00:28:05Sure, sit down.
00:28:06Barbara?
00:28:06Maybe Mr. Nelson would like a cup of coffee.
00:28:09Oh, I sure would.
00:28:19Thank you, Barbara.
00:28:21You're very welcome.
00:28:22Well, I had an idea today, and I'd like to try it out on you.
00:28:33I think that if we rigged a couple of simple derricks,
00:28:36using block and tackles, why, we could save quite a lot of manpower.
00:28:39Setting the rails in place, you mean?
00:28:41Yes, sir.
00:28:42I've noticed that it takes five or six men
00:28:44to move each rail from the side into the roadbed.
00:28:47This way, one man could provide the lifting power,
00:28:49another could guide the rails,
00:28:51and that would leave four or five men free to work on the roadbed.
00:28:54Well, I don't see why it wouldn't work.
00:28:55I'll tell Smokestack and Gus to figure I'm making a trip to town
00:28:58and get you whatever you need.
00:29:00They can pick up our other stuff at the same time.
00:29:05Well, that's fine.
00:29:06I fooled you, didn't I, young fellow?
00:29:08You thought I was going to give you an argument, didn't you?
00:29:10Yes, sir, I did.
00:29:12And if I had, what would you have done?
00:29:15Well, I don't know exactly.
00:29:16I do.
00:29:18You'd have built him anyway.
00:29:20I told you today, Mr. Bruce, I'm not here to fight with you.
00:29:23I just want to get this line across Kansas as fast as possible, that's all.
00:29:27Well, I'll admit I didn't like the idea of old man Johnson
00:29:30sending somebody out here to take over.
00:29:32But he sent the right man.
00:29:35We'll get along.
00:29:36I'm sure we will, sir.
00:29:38We'll get along even better if you quit calling me sir.
00:29:42This ain't the army, you know.
00:29:43You'll dictate a list of the things you need, Mr. Nelson.
00:29:54I'll telegraph Casey and have them ready with our order.
00:29:57Oh, well, all right.
00:29:59Well, let's see.
00:30:00I'll need a dozen two-by-fours eight feet long,
00:30:04a dozen lengths of two-by-twelve planking ten feet long,
00:30:08a hundred feet of one-inch rope.
00:30:10Let's see, I can get all the chain I need around here,
00:30:13and if I need any more wood, I'll use ties.
00:30:15I guess that's all.
00:30:16Very well.
00:30:17I'd like to talk to you for a moment, Farmer.
00:30:19I just want to say that I'm glad to be here,
00:30:23working with you and your father,
00:30:25and I hope you'll get over your resentment of me quickly.
00:30:28What makes you think we'll resent you, Mr. Nelson?
00:30:30Well, I can understand why you might,
00:30:32but I'm not here to take your father's job from him.
00:30:35He realizes that, I'm sure.
00:30:37We have the same goal,
00:30:39to get the Kansas Pacific build as soon as we can.
00:30:41And to make yourself a reputation as a brilliant young engineer.
00:30:44That's not true.
00:30:46I'm not a career man.
00:30:47I'm an engineer trying to do a job,
00:30:49and I'll need all the help I can get.
00:30:51If my work isn't satisfactory...
00:30:52I'm not talking about your work.
00:30:55Look, I've tried every way I know how to make friends with you.
00:30:57You're not making it very easy for me.
00:31:00I'm sorry, Mr. Nelson.
00:31:02It isn't that I dislike you personally.
00:31:04Good.
00:31:05But I can't very well feel friendly
00:31:07towards someone the company has sent out to replace my father.
00:31:09And that's obviously why you're here.
00:31:11He's too good a railroad man to let it interfere with his work.
00:31:14But I can see how it's hurt him.
00:31:16And I don't like it.
00:31:19Frankly, I'm doing everything I can
00:31:21to persuade him to leave here and go back where he'll be appreciated.
00:31:23But he's appreciated here, believe me.
00:31:27I wish I could, Mr. Nelson.
00:31:29You will.
00:31:30Someday you'll understand that.
00:31:32And I hope it's soon.
00:31:34Because then you and I can be friends.
00:31:37And I'd like that very much.
00:31:39Good evening, Mr. Nelson.
00:31:54Good evening, Joe.
00:31:55I was just fixing to send some of the boys out in night guard.
00:31:57Four on, four off, all right?
00:31:59Yeah, that's fine.
00:32:02Hey, the way you talk,
00:32:03you must have had some kind of military service.
00:32:05Yes, sir.
00:32:05Under Winfield Scott, the Texas campaign.
00:32:07You've been to the saddle all day, Joe.
00:32:10Lend me your horse and I'll post the night center.
00:32:12Yes, sir.
00:32:17Go tell the cook to keep a big pot of coffee on.
00:32:19Yes.
00:32:19All night.
00:32:25You know,
00:32:26that fellow Nelson don't talk like a railroad man.
00:32:29You know something else?
00:32:30I've never seen a construction engineer ride a horse like that, either.
00:32:35Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
00:32:37Yeah, but I ain't talking about it.
00:32:39And neither are you.
00:32:42Good night, Joe.
00:32:44Good night.
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00:33:10Following supplies needed, 850 ties, 150 rails, 25 cases dynamite, 200 feet fuse, 10 sledges
00:33:37with extra handles, 12 2x4s, 8 feet long, 12 planks, 2x12, 10 feet long, 100 feet rope, 1 inch.
00:33:44Thanks, Casey.
00:33:46The only thing that sounds good is the 25 cases of dynamite.
00:33:49That's a lot of stuff they're ordering.
00:33:51Sounds like it's almost worth wrecking that train to get rid of.
00:33:54No, I've got other plans for that train when the time comes.
00:33:58What you said, Janice, makes a little sense.
00:34:00That dynamite does sound interesting.
00:34:02The only way I'd be interested in it would be if Nelson was sitting on it and I had a match.
00:34:06Never mind, Nelson.
00:34:07If we can stop this line without bloodshed, that's what we're going to do.
00:34:10Is that understood?
00:34:11All right.
00:34:12Just so long as we stop it.
00:34:14Good.
00:34:15How about that dynamite?
00:34:16They'll pick it up with the engine probably in the morning.
00:34:19When they bring it in and get it unloaded, you'll be riding around, Janice, and this is what I want you to do.
00:34:36We're doing fine.
00:34:38We ought to be able to keep this pace up for a few more days, at least until we get into the rocky country, and even that shouldn't be too bad.
00:34:54We won't have the tunnel.
00:34:56We won't?
00:34:56No, I figure that by swinging the right-of-way north a little, we can take advantage of the terrain.
00:35:02There's a natural pass right here that won't require too much blasting.
00:35:06Well, that's good.
00:35:08So that's where you've been all morning.
00:35:10Right.
00:35:11Well, Jan, I want to give you a little advice.
00:35:14Sure, Cal.
00:35:15What is it?
00:35:15Well, if I was you, I wouldn't go riding around all over this country without sidearms, at least.
00:35:20Well, maybe you're right.
00:35:23Thanks.
00:35:25It looks like this little northern swing you got laid out is going to take more ties and rails than I got figured.
00:35:31Yeah, these two curves here will run three-eighths of a mile more than a straightaway.
00:35:37At 660 rails at a mile, we'll need 248 more rails.
00:35:42All right, I'll take care of it.
00:35:50There's old Smokestack, right on time.
00:35:57He always gets here just before we run out of supplies.
00:36:20Where have you been?
00:36:21We've been waiting for hours.
00:36:22Quit yapping at me and get your fool down and I'm off my train.
00:36:25It's making me nervous.
00:36:26Ah.
00:36:31Two, three men.
00:36:32Over here.
00:36:36Unload this dynamite.
00:36:41Put it on that black car.
00:36:42Over there.
00:36:50Uh.
00:37:06Two, three men.
00:37:12Two, three men.
00:37:14Two, three men.
00:37:18Let's go.
00:37:48What are you doing here?
00:38:13Let go of me.
00:38:15Bringing on the job, huh?
00:38:18Let go of you.
00:38:48There's nothing we can do for him, men, let's get back to work.
00:39:12We got track delay, men.
00:39:14Not me, mister.
00:39:15I'm through.
00:39:17Let's get going.
00:39:18I'll see to it that nothing like this happens again.
00:39:20How are you going to do that?
00:39:21From now on, we'll keep the dynamite well away from the tracks.
00:39:25Take the rest of the day off, boys, and we'll take a fresh start tomorrow morning.
00:39:29Wait a minute.
00:39:30No matter where you put that stomach, it can always go up anytime.
00:39:33I'm scared, mister, and I admit it.
00:39:35I quit.
00:39:38Me too.
00:39:40Well, I'm staying.
00:39:42They pay good wages around here, and I need to work.
00:39:45Hey, I need it too, but I need to keep breathing more.
00:39:48I've had enough.
00:39:57We're in trouble, John.
00:39:58Yeah, I know it.
00:40:00I could have sworn I heard a gunshot just before that stuff blew.
00:40:03Nothing.
00:40:03No, we're in trouble.
00:40:04That's it.
00:40:06I don't know.
00:40:21No.
00:40:22No accident.
00:40:36No, and I think that fight was stage two.
00:40:38We'll soon find out.
00:40:39I'll make one of those monkeys talk about...
00:40:41Ah, they've had plenty of time to get away by now.
00:40:43Well, what's next?
00:40:45There isn't much more we can do,
00:40:47except wait until tomorrow morning
00:40:48and find out how many men we still got working for us.
00:40:50What about the men who did this?
00:40:52That's a good question, Cal, but I got a better one.
00:40:54What about the man behind him?
00:40:55Who do you mean?
00:40:56I wish I knew.
00:40:58But there's somebody, somebody who's determined
00:41:00to keep this line from going through.
00:41:02This has all been organized.
00:41:03The sabbathars, the threats, the unrest.
00:41:05I'm sure of it.
00:41:06The day we had our first death.
00:41:08Looks like we're already in the war,
00:41:10everybody keeps talking about.
00:41:11This is worse than war.
00:41:13In a war, at least you know you're fighting.
00:41:18And while they were trying to figure out what hit them,
00:41:20Max and I lit out.
00:41:22It all worked out just the way you figured it would.
00:41:24And the construction gang didn't need much pushing to quit either.
00:41:27Now they got less than half the men they started with.
00:41:29Good.
00:41:30You know, we didn't get all that dynamite.
00:41:33What do you mean?
00:41:34There's still a couple of cases in the tool tent.
00:41:36It'd be a shame to let that go to waste, Bill.
00:41:39I'd kind of like to see that locomotive of theirs in pieces.
00:41:51Hello, John.
00:41:52Cal.
00:41:53Good evening, Barbara.
00:41:54Payroll's being delivered tomorrow morning.
00:41:57Well, we'd better take the train in town tonight, then,
00:41:59and bring the payroll back with us tomorrow.
00:42:01Tonight?
00:42:01What for?
00:42:03I want to take Barbara into Rockwood and leave her there.
00:42:06What did you say?
00:42:07You and Casey can switch jobs.
00:42:09I can't have you stay out here any longer.
00:42:11It's much too dangerous.
00:42:13I've only stayed here as long as I have because of my father, Mr. Nelson.
00:42:16But if you've decided to send me away, I'm through.
00:42:18I quit.
00:42:21What about you, Dad?
00:42:22Oh, Barbara, you just don't understand.
00:42:25Oh, yes, I do.
00:42:26Maybe Mr. Nelson has convinced you that he only wants to help you,
00:42:29but I know better.
00:42:30Don't you see he wants us to quit?
00:42:33Well, let's let him have what he wants.
00:42:35We'll go back easy.
00:42:36No, I'm going to stay, Barbara, because I'm needed,
00:42:38and so are you.
00:42:39We've got to finish this line before the war begins.
00:42:42War?
00:42:42Why does everyone keep...
00:42:43Listen to me, Barbara.
00:42:45Maybe there's going to be a war, and maybe there isn't.
00:42:47But we've got to be ready for it.
00:42:49The Kansas Pacific is the United States Army Project,
00:42:52a military line serving the Western Forts.
00:42:56Army Project?
00:42:58But when...
00:42:59When the Army sent him out to take over.
00:43:01I'm sorry.
00:43:02I didn't tell you about it before, but I couldn't.
00:43:04I don't know how your father found out about it,
00:43:06but that doesn't matter now.
00:43:07I just guessed it.
00:43:08The important thing is that I...
00:43:10that we need you.
00:43:12I didn't realize that.
00:43:14I thought the war talk was just talk.
00:43:17I hope it is just talk.
00:43:19So do I.
00:43:22I...
00:43:23I'll help him.
00:43:24Of course I will.
00:43:25Good night, Carol.
00:43:34Good night, John.
00:43:35John, couldn't I stay here and help just as well?
00:43:52That's the nicest thing I've heard since I arrived in Kansas.
00:43:55You mean I can't stay?
00:43:57No, I mean you finally stopped calling me Mr. Nelson.
00:44:00Please, John, let me stay.
00:44:04It's too dangerous, Barbara.
00:44:07I can't take a chance on anything happening to you.
00:44:10Good night.
00:44:12Night, John.
00:44:34There it is, Janice.
00:44:40There it is, Janice.
00:44:52There it is, Janice.
00:45:22All right, we've got enough.
00:45:32Let's get out of here.
00:45:48Let's get out of here.
00:45:55Take care of them.
00:46:00Take care of them.
00:46:12Let's get out of here.
00:46:14Take care of them.
00:46:19There it is.
00:46:20There we go.
00:46:21There we go.
00:46:22There it is.
00:46:24I have to keep his eye on the line.
00:46:26I've got to keep your eye on the line.
00:46:28I want to go.
00:46:29That's what I want to try.
00:46:30There we go.
00:46:31It's where I want all the time of the line.
00:46:33We need to keep my eye on it.
00:46:34Here's your eye on my eye.
00:46:35Oh, my God.
00:47:05Oh, my God.
00:47:35Oh, my God.
00:48:05Keep your hands where I can see them and open up those saddlebags.
00:48:20Open those saddlebags or I'll put a bullet in them.
00:48:36You've got five seconds.
00:48:40One, two, three, four, five.
00:48:52Don't.
00:48:56I'll open them.
00:48:58I'll open them.
00:48:59What's trouble here?
00:49:12I want these men arrested.
00:49:14They assaulted a guard and stole that dynamite from the Kansas Pacific.
00:49:18You'll find a third man lying out on the prairie.
00:49:20Let's go.
00:49:21Let's go.
00:49:22I see a lot of men here who quit working for the railroad after the accident we had today.
00:49:28Well, I'm offering you extra wages to come back.
00:49:30Double pay for every man who stays with the line until we hit the Colorado border.
00:49:34Well, I don't know about the rest of them, Mr. Nelson, but I'll go back to work.
00:49:35I like the way you do business.
00:49:36That's good for me, too.
00:49:37Well, thanks, man.
00:49:38I'll see you all in the job first thing in the morning.
00:49:39Right now, the drinks are on me.
00:49:43for the railroad after the accident we had today.
00:49:47Well, I'm offering you extra wages to come back.
00:49:49Double pay for every man who stays with the line
00:49:51until we hit the Colorado border.
00:49:53Well, I don't know about the rest of them, Mr. Nelson,
00:49:55but I'll go back to work.
00:49:57I like the way you do business.
00:49:58That's going for me, too.
00:50:01Thanks, man.
00:50:02I'll see you all on the job first thing in the morning.
00:50:04Right now, the drinks are on me.
00:50:13Have a drink with me, Nelson.
00:50:15I owe you one.
00:50:17All right.
00:50:18Bourbon, please, Chuck.
00:50:20Take it, too.
00:50:27Your health.
00:50:30Thanks very much.
00:50:33Just offhand, I'd say that you were regarding me
00:50:35with suspicion, my friend.
00:50:37That's a possibility?
00:50:39You don't think I had anything to do with that incident of you?
00:50:42I hope you didn't, Quantrill.
00:50:45Two men were killed today.
00:50:47One of mine and one of somebody else's.
00:50:51There might have been more than that
00:50:52if you'd fired into that dynamite.
00:50:54Would you have done it?
00:50:57That's going pretty far just to prove simple robbery.
00:51:01You're a dangerous man, Nelson.
00:51:04There are others around who are much more dangerous.
00:51:08Thanks for the drink.
00:51:12De.
00:51:15...
00:51:15...
00:51:18De.
00:51:19...
00:51:20...
00:51:21...
00:51:26...
00:51:29Let's go.
00:51:59No time for this one.
00:52:09Get out of sight.
00:52:29What's the matter?
00:52:41Rocks.
00:52:42Look out!
00:53:06Get out of sight.
00:53:16Get back.
00:53:22Get back.
00:53:32Keep shooting.
00:53:44We'll get him.
00:53:48You can't go nowhere.
00:53:49Get down.
00:53:50Can the engine shove those rocks off the track?
00:53:52Might.
00:53:53But we'd be going so slow when they got by them they could shoot right into the cab.
00:54:00I'll take care of that.
00:54:01Can you handle the throttle?
00:54:02Let's try.
00:54:03Can you handle the throttle?
00:54:04I'll try.
00:54:05Let's try.
00:54:06If you get by us we can't miss.
00:54:08What about the payroll?
00:54:09If you get by us we can't miss.
00:54:12What about the payroll?
00:54:13Never mind.
00:54:14It's Nelson we're after.
00:54:15It's Nelson we're after.
00:54:16It's Nelson we're after.
00:54:17It's Nelson we're after.
00:54:18If you get by us we can't miss.
00:54:20What about the payroll?
00:54:21Never mind.
00:54:23It's Nelson we're after.
00:54:41Let's go.
00:55:11Now, this comes against you, but I don't see smoke.
00:55:40Nelson's all alone in the cab.
00:55:43Something must have happened.
00:55:47It's his arm, Cal.
00:55:48What happened, John?
00:55:49Ambush.
00:55:50Gus is dead.
00:55:51I can handle the engine, Mr. Nelson.
00:55:53I'll take smoke stack to a doctor.
00:55:55No, I'll put him in the cabos and telegraph for a doctor.
00:55:57All right.
00:55:58Easy, fellas.
00:55:59Hey, I can handle the engine, Mr. Nelson.
00:56:01I can handle the engine, Mr. Nelson.
00:56:03I'll take smoke stack to a doctor.
00:56:05No, I'll put him in the cabos and telegraph for a doctor.
00:56:08All right.
00:56:09Careful now.
00:56:10All right.
00:56:11Easy.
00:56:18This is bad, John.
00:56:19Gus killed, smoke stack hurt.
00:56:24Cal, he's going to be all right.
00:56:26What's going to happen next?
00:56:28Nothing if I can help it.
00:56:30We're going to double the arm guard right now.
00:56:33Then we're going to start and lay track again.
00:56:35I can do it.
00:56:36I'm going to keep him close.
00:56:37I'll leave the car.
00:56:38Stop.
00:56:39Stop.
00:56:40Stop.
00:56:41Stop.
00:56:42Stop.
00:56:43Let's go.
00:57:13Who is it?
00:57:26President Sopper.
00:57:35Send it over on the desk.
00:57:37Get him up.
00:57:48Get over.
00:57:57Get his gun.
00:57:58Let's move.
00:58:18Any trouble?
00:58:47Yeah, with the sheriff.
00:58:49They need a new one now.
00:58:50You had to kill him.
00:58:51Yeah.
00:58:52Some of our men are missing.
00:58:53Where Stone and Moria?
00:58:54Dead.
00:58:54Nelson killed them.
00:58:57Just a minute, Janice.
00:58:59You'll never get near him now.
00:59:00I'm sure he's put on extra guards.
00:59:01What do you expect us to do?
00:59:02Stand by and let him build that railroad?
00:59:04That's right.
00:59:04We've got enough men to give him a bad time, boss.
00:59:06And we can recruit more without any trouble.
00:59:08We'll do that recruiting, all right.
00:59:09But right now, I have other plans for the Kansas Pacific.
00:59:13Tracks are one thing, but trains running on them are another.
00:59:16What's this all about?
00:59:17Let them spend their money and time building.
00:59:19They've got too many men now for us to stage any kind of an attack.
00:59:22But the minute they put a train on those tracks, we'll blow it off the prairie.
00:59:25With what?
00:59:26With artillery.
00:59:27We'll line up on the tracks from one of those uphill passes where the engine has to slow down.
00:59:30Are you figuring on stealing some cannons from the Yankee army?
00:59:33No, just requisitioning them from the Confederate army.
01:00:00Oh, Dad, you did it.
01:00:16We sure did.
01:00:23Congratulations, John.
01:00:24Well, same to you.
01:00:26Somebody ought to be buying a few drinks around here.
01:00:28Isn't every day we finish a railroad, you know?
01:00:31Oh, I almost forgot.
01:00:32There's a telegram for you.
01:00:33There's a train coming in from Kansas City.
01:00:41We're in business, all right.
01:00:43And just in time.
01:00:57The war's very close, isn't it, John?
01:00:59It looks like it might be.
01:01:00All right, boys, on your toes.
01:01:26Stand by.
01:01:43Stand by.
01:01:46Commence firing!
01:01:46Let's go!
01:02:16We got them, boys!
01:02:26All right, boys.
01:02:29Let's get these guys in the middle.
01:02:33Let's get some guns.
01:02:36We got them, boys.
01:02:39All right, boys.
01:02:44All right, boys. Let's get these guns out of here.
01:03:05Well, there's a place all right.
01:03:07Did you see any tracks when you came up?
01:03:09No, sir. I figured they covered them up so we couldn't trail them.
01:03:14All right, let's go.
01:03:31Is that all, Cal?
01:03:32Yep. Everybody else is afraid of getting shot at with cannons.
01:03:36They won't use artillery on personnel. Trains are their targets.
01:03:39Well, these are the only men I've been able to convince of that.
01:03:42Repairing that track won't be easy, but we'll get it done.
01:03:45Let's go.
01:03:46What about Quanto?
01:03:47We couldn't find him. Nobody around here has seen him for weeks.
01:03:50Worked up.
01:03:52All right.
01:03:53Let's go.
01:03:55We'll see him.
01:03:56All right.
01:03:58And now, we'll catch him in the paint.
01:04:00Look!
01:04:02I'm sorry.
01:04:04I've seen this little boy around here.
01:04:06It's been a long way around here.
01:04:08See him for weeks.
01:04:11All right.
01:04:13We've seen him for weeks.
01:04:15We've seen him for weeks.
01:04:16Well, Stan, how are you?
01:04:18Fine, Captain.
01:04:19I'm fine.
01:04:20I'm fine.
01:04:21I'm fine.
01:04:22I'm fine.
01:04:23I'm fine.
01:04:24I'm fine.
01:04:26Well, Stan, how are you?
01:04:44Fine, Captain.
01:04:45I'm not much of a secret anymore.
01:04:47What brings you here?
01:04:49Well, since we lost that last train, the general decided not to telegraph about the next one.
01:04:53He sent me to tell you.
01:04:55The next one.
01:04:56We can't risk another train until we locate those guns and put them out of action.
01:05:00You're going to risk it anyway, Captain.
01:05:01You telegraph the general.
01:05:02It would take you a week to repair the damage.
01:05:04The week's up tomorrow.
01:05:05That's when the train's coming through.
01:05:08Ammunition again?
01:05:09And troops.
01:05:10Reinforcements for Kearney and the other western forts.
01:05:13We can't wait any longer, Captain.
01:05:16All right.
01:05:18Joe.
01:05:19Sir?
01:05:20Can you round up a half a dozen men who can ride and shoot?
01:05:22You mean to go out after them cannons there?
01:05:24Yeah.
01:05:25There are a few boys I know that like that.
01:05:26They're not much in land track in the middle of a prairie, but they ride and shoot real well.
01:05:30Good.
01:05:31Outside of that hill there, there's only one other piece of high ground between Rockwood and the Colorado border that commands the track.
01:05:37If they use those guns again, I figure that's where they'll be.
01:05:39I know the place you mean.
01:05:41You go back to the smokestack and meet me here in the morning.
01:05:43Yes, sir.
01:05:44Stanton and I have an idea.
01:05:46It may not work, but we have to try it.
01:05:48I want you to get back to Kansas City and hold up that troop train and...
01:05:51I can't do that, Captain.
01:05:52Well, what I got in my mind won't take you long to set up.
01:05:55Now, here's the way it works.
01:05:57The pack stands through here is where you have to go.
01:06:00Hold it up.
01:06:27Give your horses a breather, men.
01:06:30We ought to be able to see the pass from that next rise there.
01:06:33We won't get any rest then if those guns...
01:06:42Polkstack's rolling that train.
01:06:44No wonder they're making such a good time.
01:06:45Come on.
01:06:57Take a look.
01:07:14Commence firing.
01:07:27Fire.
01:07:48Get that gun.
01:07:54Get that gun.
01:07:56Fire.
01:08:21Keep firing.
01:08:22Get the rifles!
01:08:23Let's go.
01:08:53Let's go.
01:09:23Let's go.
01:09:53Let's go.
01:09:55Let's go.
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01:10:35Get up.
01:10:37Let's go.
01:10:47Take care of him.
01:10:51All clear, sir.
01:10:56We got them all.
01:10:57You feel all right, Joe?
01:10:58Sure.
01:10:59Well done.
01:11:01Thank you, sir.
01:11:03Let's go.
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01:11:47Sometimes I think I'd rather go off the war than hang around here smelling that pipe.
01:11:53Shut up.
01:11:55Goodbye, Barbara.
01:11:57I'll be back.
01:11:58And I'll be here.
01:12:00Or wherever else the building we are.
01:12:06Wood!
01:12:07All wood!
01:12:09I hope this thing is over soon so that young fella can come back and help us build that track all the way across the country.
01:12:31He'll be back.
01:12:39He'll be back.
01:12:57Yeah.
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