 A steam locomotive of the vintage used at the end of the 19th  Century was required for scenes of Pres. Snows journey from Salt  Lake City, and it had been assumed that one could be borrowed from  the Geneva Steel Plant near the BYU studios. Several had been  sitting idle there, but unfortunately it was found that they had  been dismantled for scrap only six months earlier. Kennecott Copper  was found to have access to an appropriate locomotive in Ely,  Nevada, but it had to be used locally. Fortunately the scenery there  was very similar to Modena, Utah where President Snow and his party  had transferred from the train to carriages, for the last leg of his  journey to St. George.