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.


Built by bullets, dynamite, and blood-stained spikes!
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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