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Originally Posted by Combwork
A whole generation of children over here were not only brought up on the stuff (ABC saturday morning cinema complete with radioactive badge) they believed it was real. To us (for whom the chances of actually going to the USA were about the same as going to the moon) Arizona, Texas, all those kind of places were what America really was. The bad guys ride into town, the good guys take them on. Street warfare in open spaces.
The steam engines were what fascinated me. Were they all fake, or did any Westerns use real early 20th century engines; firing them up and hoping they'd stay in one piece just long enough to get the shot?
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The steam locomotives were about the only things that weren't fake. Several of them still around, and places where you can ride them on the old narrow gauge tracks.
This one comes to mind.
http://www.durangotrain.com/
If you're ever out that way, Mesa Verde is also worth a stop. But if you see a plywood sign on which someone has spray painted "Indian Casino" with an arrow pointing down in the woods, I think I'd just keep going.
We did.
Chas