This Mutoscope film has nothing to do with Edwin Porter nor in fact a great deal to do with the 1903 Great Train Robbery.. It appears to have been made by Mutoscope (Frank Marion, Wallace McCutcheon and Billy Bitzer)) on commission from the Empire State Railway Company to be shown to railroad crews to give them an idea of what to expect if bandits attempted to hold up their train, It would seem to be the same film as that listed as From Leadville to Aspen: A Hold-Up in the Rockies although it is possible that two such films were made. A similar film was made the same year by the new California branch of Mutoscope by Archibald H. Van Guysling , founder of the branch, along with operator Otis M. Gove.
Review of Holdup of the Rocky Mountain Express
