The film's "All-Star" cast included Ralph Lewis, Claire McDowell, Johnny Harron, and Ella Hall.

[1] Esther Miller, the daughter of the railway President, and her mother are riding horses alongside the railroad tracks.

Both are traveling in an open car, paralleling the tracks when they see Bill Buckley's engine steaming down the rails.

At the Miller home, Wilton tells the housemaid to "Have Sylvester bring the roadster around for me — then he can take you marketing in the other car."

[5] The average cost per FBO production was $50,000 to $75,000 equivalent to $939,264 to $1,408,897 in 2021 compared to the Major film studios which could spend five times as much to produce a movie.

FBO also produced and distributed a limited number of big-budget features labeled "Gold Bond" or "Special" productions.

FBO also agreed to invest two and a half million dollars (In today's money – equivalent to $40,472,167 in 2021) on the remaining four films.

He had acted in 73 movies between 1913 and 1922 for the likes of Essanay, Universal, Pathé, and Goldwyn before FBO allowed him to direct his first film.

During his directorial career at FBO, he would gain sobriquets like the "Master of Melodrama," "King of Exploitation," and "Hero of the Working Class."

Johnson would continue to thrive as an independent director because he didn't make epic films; he made bankable movies focusing on subjects he and his mother held dear.

"Love, the greatest of human emotions, is the theme of Emory Johnson's drama, The Westbound Limited The film glorifies the Railroad Man.

It shows him as a loyal, faithful, and brave human at his work, risking his life so that others might have safety"[14] "Bill Buckley, the westbound limited engineer, knows no creed but God, home, and duty.

[a] To secure atmosphere for my railroad story, westbound limited, Emory and I have ridden in the engine cab, in the caboose, on the cowcatcher, and almost every place on the train that is an unusual one for a layman to occupy.

Emilie Johnson wrote stories about lunch pail characters living paycheck-to-paycheck like law enforcement officers, firefighters, mail carriers, railroad engineers, patriots, baseball players, and newspaper press operators.

Identification of the train station is possible by examining the background of the movie frame, viewing the Moorish architecture dome, and comparing the structure against the La Grande images on Wikipedia.

rewarded Ralph Lewis for his work in In the Name of the Law, The Third Alarm and The West~Bound Limited by signing him to a long-term contract in April 1923.

[35] The Motion Picture News Check-up lists the length as 6,529 feet, rounded to 7 reels, or a running time of 72 minutes.

In addition, special screenings were scheduled for local railroad executives and railway organizations in other cities with the same impetus of getting these industry leaders on board and having them give the movie free advertising and promotion.

FBO was the official name of the film-distributing operation for Robertson-Cole Pictures Corp. Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. would rectify this confusion at a later date.

Film Booking Offices implemented the same advertising strategy they used in promoting In the Name of the Law and The Third Alarm especially creating local tie-ins with the particular working-class or public servants portrayed in the movie.

[45] National tie-ups would be used utilized locally in exploiting Westbound Limited have been made by the publicity department of Film Booking Offices with some of the big railroad companies.

The Pennsylvania Railroad also printed over a million postcards featuring the words, See Westbound Limited which were distributed by their agents all along with their trans-continental trains.

[46] Taking a page from the advertising playbook of his first two movies, "the Canton, Ohio Women's Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, has taken a big block of tickets for Westbound Limited and will sell them, keeping a small percentage of the profits for their own organization.

Similar arrangements have been made for selling tickets in Youngstown, Ohio and other towns where The Westbound Limited will play.

Attendees were greeted by a large cutout of Ralph Lewis standing with his arm upheld before the cross-sign warning "Stop — Listen — See Westbound Limited."

There is no getting away from the fact that it stirs you up at times, but there is something in the climaxes that do not register as heavily as you are prepared for.Catapultic, as the crack train itself, around which the plot is woven, "Westbound Limited" crashed through the screen at the T.D.

A photographic effect never before witnessed on the screen, and which for sheer realism discounted everything yet devised by the ingenuity of director and cameraman, was the picturing of an express train running full tilt directly at the audience, neither swerving to left nor right and then – just think – continuing right over the heads of the audience, seemingly, as they looked on the screen agape.FBO focused on producing and distributing films for small-town venues.

Like most independents, FBO was dependent on the moviehouse owners to rent their films for the company to show a profit.

Plenty of good acting and the world's of action, with several thrills that make 'em sit up in their seats—some splendid photographic shots from an airplane.

According to the Library of Congress website, this film has a status of: "Digital files produced from 16mm print on loan from a private collector.