The Cecil B. DeMille Collection: Union Pacific

Union Pacific is coming!

President Lincoln, in one of his last official acts, signed a bill authorizing the building of a railroad to California: the Union Pacific. Cecil B. DeMille's massive production was the Titanic of its time, whose premiere was billed "the biggest in motion picture history" and featured parades, radio broadcasts, a cross-country antique train tour by the leads, and drew 250 000 people to Omaha, Nebraska, for the celebration.