- 6.3/1020 votes
#1 - Diablo
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1967
A horse race is actually being used as a plot to defraud the people of Scalplock and in so doing destroy Calhoun's good reputation with them.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/1017 votes
#2 - Consignment, Betsy the Boiler
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1967
Calhoun outbids his old nemesis Sam McGinty in an auction for a new boiler which both men need. But shortly afterward, the boiler is stolen at gunpoint and taken, along with Dave, to an impoverished town which needs the boiler to revive its only source of income. Dave soon finds himself in a predicament as he comes to sympathize with the townspeople.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1017 votes
#3 - Gallows for Bill Pardew
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1967
Barnabas identifies his coworker and friend Billy Pardew as the killer of a store clerk, though only on the basis of his boots. The obviously biased judge, a man known to be too quick to hang defendants, asks Calhoun to act as Billy's defense when no attorney agrees to take the case. And Billy's uncles are determined to stop his being hanged any way they can.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.6/1016 votes
#4 - Five Days to Washtiba
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/7/1967
Calhoun's acquisition of a right-of-way for the railroad is threatened when he takes the side of allowing a band of Indians---mostly old people, women, and children---to go through it on their way back from the reservation to their ancestral home. The townsmen who agreed to the right-of-way do not want them to cross it, and insist that Calhoun keep them only on the narrow strip he owns or forfeit it, and hence lose the railroad.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.4/1015 votes
#5 - The Silver Bullet
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/1967
Bounty hunter McCoy will stop at nothing to capture a murderer. Dave faces a dilemma, knowing the man's location but having promised a woman to keep it a secret.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.4/1015 votes
#6 - Grapes of Grass Valley
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/21/1967
Ben puts himself in the center of a conflict when he decides to help French monks establish a vineyard. But trapper Ike Bridger and his friends see it as prime beaver habitat and are unwilling to give it up without a fight.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1017 votes
#7 - Leopards Try, But Leopards Can't
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/28/1967
A bounty hunter arrives in Scalplock to start a new life. But he becomes interested in Julie and can think of only one option in dealing with rival Ben.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.2/1019 votes
#8 - The Return of Hode Avery
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/4/1967
Ben has trouble to deal with when Hode Avery, a bad sort from the war, arrives in Scalplock. Plus rancher Clay Hennings is upset that the railroad is spooking his livestock and wants it to stop.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.6/1016 votes
#9 - Four Guns to Scalplock
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/11/1967
Calhoun realizes that four members of an outlaw gang have surreptitiously boarded the train. But he decides to not let them know he is on to them until he knows their plan, and can devise one of his own to stop them.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1015 votes
#10 - Steel Chain to a Music Box
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/18/1967
Young Frank Wyatt is accidentally shot in a fight with Barnabas, who thought he was behaving improperly with a young woman. Calhoun tries to take Frank to the nearest doctor by using the train, but Frank's powerful father forces both Frank and Barnabas off and takes them to his ranch. Though this action aggravates his son's wound, the elder Wyatt plans to kill Barnabas if Frank dies, even over Frank's objection.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.4/1017 votes
#11 - Six Hours to Sky High
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/25/1967
The BPS&D's telegrapher plans to assist his three brothers in dynamiting the railroad and robbing the payroll it's carrying, until he learns that his wife and son are riding the train as well.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.2/1016 votes
#12 - T Is for Traitor
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/2/1967
Although Calhoun discovers that the man who saved Julie and Barnabas from ambush is a former railroad engineer branded as a traitor during the Civil War, he still decides to hire him, despite Dave's objection and his own suspicions. Unfortunately, the man still has his old associates riding with him and they are all planning to steal the gold that the train is carrying.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.4/1014 votes
#13 - Dealer's Choice
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/9/1967
Ben decides it's payback time when he encounters two card sharps who swindled him out of $10,000 for a worthless hill. Ben takes them on in a poker game for which he has a special strategy.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1017 votes
#14 - Wild Track
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/16/1967
The ownership of a luxurious railway car is disputed so Ben takes possession of it even though it contains passengers. He ruins the plans of an outlaw gang that had plans to hold everyone and the car for ransom.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.4/1016 votes
#15 - Death Has Two Faces
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 12/23/1967
Calhoun is puzzled as to why two mortal enemies, a man and a woman, are refusing to sell him a right-of-way for the railroad because of a mine that everybody is sure is worthless.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1015 votes
#16 - The Prisoners
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 12/30/1967
A dying marshal deputizes Dave (who in turn also deputizes Calhoun) to transport his prisoner to Doan's Junction to be tried for murder. But other members of the killer's gang have boarded the train and are planning to break him free. The prisoner also sees an opportunity for escape in a young woman who is being forced into marrying a wealthy man and clearly doesn't want to.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1015 votes
#17 - Dry Run to Glory
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/6/1968
Victor Lamphier has a grudge against alcoholic Billy Joe, whose father is a rich rancher. Victor hijacks Ben's train to exact his revenge and Ben must outwit the man without anyone coming to harm.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The Iron Horse Season 2
Every episode of The Iron Horse Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Iron Horse Season 2!
The Iron Horse is an American Western television series that appeared on ABC from 1966 to 1968 and featured Dale Robertson as fictional gambler-turned-railroad baron...
Genre:Western
Network:ABC
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Diablo" is the best rated episode of "The Iron Horse" season 2. It scored 6.3/10 based on 20 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/16/1967. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Consignment, Betsy the Boiler".