Mine owner William Sharon keeps having his gold shipments held up by a gang of bandits. Sharon hires banker Charles Crocker, who happens to have connections in the Central Pacific Railroad, to build a spur line from Virginia City to Carson City, so that the gold can be shipped by railroad. Silent Jeff Kincaid is the railroad engineer. However there is opposition to the railroad, chiefly from another mine owner, Big Jack Davis.
Randolph Scott
as Silent Jeff Kincaid
Lucille Norman
as Susan Mitchell
Raymond Massey
as Big Jack Davis
Richard Webb
as Alan Kincaid
James Millican
as Jim Squires
Larry Keating
as William Sharon
George Cleveland
as Henry Dodson
William Haade
as Hardrock Haggerty
Don Beddoe
as Charles Crocker
Thurston Hall
as Charles Crocker
Vince Barnett
as Henry
Ida Moore
as Spinster on Stagecoach (uncredited)
