Starting in the early 1920s the publishing house Grosset and Dunlap crafted a deal with the prominent Hollywood studios to issue novelizations of their major, original releases and among those was The Iron Horse (1924, 329pp). Huntington", now on display in Sacramento, California, is being manhandled up a steep grade on a sledge made of logs. Of interest, however, what appears to be the Central Pacific's "C.P. Besides incorrectly identifying the "UP 119" as the "UP 116", both engines had been scrapped 21 and 15 years earlier. Near the end of the film, it is stated that the actual "Jupiter" and "UP 116" were used in the scene. The international version includes some variant shots and uses different names for some supporting characters it also carries a dedication to the British railway engineer George Stephenson. A 2011 release of The Iron Horse on DVD in the UK included both the US and International/UK versions of the picture, and a half-hour video-essay about the film by author and critic Tag Gallagher. The film was released on DVD in America in its full-length US version (accompanied by the truncated UK version). The film has a 78% rating in Rotten Tomatoes. The film's importance was recognized by the American Film Institute in the 2008 AFI's 10 Top 10, where it was nominated in the Western category.
In choosing the film, the Registry said that The Iron Horse "introduced to American and world audiences a reverential, elegiac mythology that has influenced many subsequent Westerns." In December 2011, The Iron Horse was selected for inclusion in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry. 119 and Jupiter) were scrapped before 1910. There is a note in the title before this scene that the two original locomotives from the 1869 event are used in the film, although this is false - both engines ( Union Pacific No. They were in fact retired Central Pacific Railroad employees who had helped build the first transcontinental railroad through the Sierras, who came out to participate in the filming as a lark.
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