The film includes western movie regulars such as Chuck Connors from The Rifleman, Jack Elam from John Wayne’s Rio Bravo, Royal Dano from Audie Murphy’s Red Badge of Courage, and Gene Evans from The Shadow Riders.

Captain Oren Hayes, the Texas Ranger who arrested John and ensured his parole, goes after him once more, knowing that he will try to pull off the same robbery he bungled 20 years before for revenge.

John Henry's gang includes his brother Charlie Lee the getaway driver, Kelly Sutton the tin-horn gambler, Fargo Parker the gunfighter, and Nitro Jones the demolitions expert.

For example, Kelly can no longer handle his liquor, Nitro cannot blow things up properly, Charlie is careless driving a wagon, and Fargo now struggles to use his rifle such as cocking it.

After the old outlaws discover the Texas railroad they robbed twenty years ago was torn down (and after a good laugh at being old fools), John Henry decides to take the money back to Del Rio as he no longer has any use of it.

[3] Director Burt Kennedy used several aging Western stars from years past as the group of aged Rangers, as well as the outlaw gang - former Rifleman actor Chuck Connors as Nash Crawford, past Cimarron Strip marshal Stuart Whitman as Gentleman George Asque, and former Dakotas deputy Jack Elam as Jason Fitch making up the retired rangers.

John Henry Lee's aged gang consisted of former Gunsmoke deputy Festus Hagen (Ken Curtis) as Kelly Sutton and Western character actors Royal Dano as Nitro Jones, Gene Evans as Fargo Parker, and Dub Taylor as John Henry's brother Charlie Lee.

The Texas Rangers characters originally appeared almost 20 years before in the unsold television pilot and TV-movie broadcast in 1969 on ABC, The Over-the-Hill Gang, which was followed by The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again (the sequel did not feature the Captain Oren Hayes character) starring Walter Brennan as Nash Crawford, Pat O'Brien as Captain Oren Hayes, Chill Wills as Gentleman George Asque, and Edgar Buchanan as Jason Fitch.

Elam had the distinction of appearing as the crooked sheriff in the first Over-The-Hill film and then assuming the role once played by Buchanan two decades later in Texas Train.

[6] Terry Atkinson of the Los Angeles Times wrote that Kennedy "didn't seem to have quite thought out his promising, then faltering, tale.

[…] But until things go really awry toward the end, Kennedy provides 'Train' with plenty of the same gently satirical humor and authentic big-sky feeling he gave his fine 1969 feature Support Your Local Sheriff!

His smoothly professional direction is full of fine touches, enhanced by Ken Lamkin's photography and Warner Leighton's editing.