Just before the Civil War (but after the South has seceded), Southern saboteurs try to prevent railroad construction from crossing Kansas to the frontier; army captain Nelson is sent out to oppose them. As the tracks push westward, Nelson must contend with increasingly violent sabotage, while trying to romance the foreman's pretty daughter Barbara.

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Cast

Sterling Hayden

Capt. John Nelson

Eve Miller

Barbara Bruce

Barton MacLane

Cal Bruce

Harry Shannon

Smokestack the Train Engineer

Tom Fadden

Gus Gustavson the Train Fireman

Reed Hadley

Bill Quantrill

Douglas Fowley

Max Janus

Robert Keys

Lt. Stanton (as Bob Keys)

Irving Bacon

Casey

Myron Healey

Morey

James Griffith

Joe Farley

Clayton Moore

Henchman Stone