L'avariciós governador Lepetomane i el seu malvat ajudant Hedley Lamarr volen que els habitants de Rock Ridge abandonin la ciutat, per vendre els terrenys a una companyia de ferrocarril. Per facilitar els seus maquiavèl·lics plans, nomenen xèrif Bart, un negre condemnat a la forca, perquè fomenti el desordre i l'anarquia a la ciutat.
L'agent de l'FBI LaCrosse està investigant un perillós criminal sospitós de múltiples assassinats i que té segrestat el seu fill. Però l'FBI l'aparta del servei actiu fins que s'acabi la investigació. LaCrosse haurà d'afrontar molts riscos a l'hora de perseguir els dos sospitosos principals, fins i tot l'actitud hostil del xèrif local, més preocupat de la seva reelecció.
Oregon, 1933. Entre els rodamons que, durant la gran depressió, es desplacen d'un estat a un altre viatjant clandestinament als trens, el número u és l'Emperador del Nord, anomenat així per la seva astúcia per esquivar els revisors. Dos homes aspiren a aquest títol, però per a això hauran d'arribar a Portland al tren d'en Sack, un sàdic i implacable ferroviari.
A l'època de la Gran Depressió, la crítica situació de Dodson (Mississippi) empitjora amb l'arribada d'Owen Legate (Robert Redford), un funcionari del ferrocarril la missió del qual és acomiadar gran part dels empleats locals. Alva Starr (Natalie Wood) és una jove molt bonica i coqueta amb molts plans i cap lloc on anar fins que Legate apareix a la seva vida. La seva aventura sentimental enfuria la distant i despreocupada mare d'Alva (Kate Reid) i encén el desig de venjança del poble.
Durant la Segona Guerra Mundial, tres persones es troben a l'estació d'un poblet proper a Canterbury. El sergent britànic Peter Gibbs ha d'incorporar-se a un destacament aplegat als afores. En canvi, el sergent nord-americà Bob Johnson ha baixat per accident, camí de Canterbury. Finalment, Alison Smith és una noia que vol treballar en una granja de la rodalia. Tot just sortir de l'estació, un home misteriós li llença cola de contacte als cabells i s'escapa. Quan informen de l'incident, descobreixen que no és el primer cop que passa. Tots tres decideixen investigar-ne el cas.
El 1867 comença la construcció del ferrocarril a l'estat de Missouri. Els agents de la companyia constructora pressionen amb amenaces i enganys els propietaris de les terres per on passarà el tren perquè les venguin a preus irrisoris. Tot i això, aquestes pressions s'estavellen contra la resistència d'una dona que viu amb els seus dos fills, Jesse i Frank James.
The epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on Cullen Bohannon, a Confederate soldier who sets out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who killed his wife. His journey takes him west to Hell on Wheels, a dangerous, raucous, lawless melting pot of a town that travels with and services the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, an engineering feat unprecedented for its time.
Michael Portillo is in Southeast Asia, armed with his 1913 Bradshaw's Handbook. It will lead him on a spectacular 2,500-mile railway adventure across six countries. He explores towering megacities and magnificent mosques.
Discover the secrets of Japan's railways, from the newest technologies and systems in use, to travel tips and must-see places.
Michael Portillo takes to the tracks with a copy of George Bradshaw's Victorian Railway Guidebook. Portillo travels the length and breadth of the country to see how the railways changed us, and what of Bradshaw's Britain remains.
Railway-related documentary covering modern railway systems, museum railways and their facilities as well as items on model railway layouts. Politics and criticism is not left out; the series reports on closures, controversial model ideas, delays to reconstruction plans or smart commuter transport concepts.
Takayama enters the training program of JNR with the ambition of becoming one of the venerable train company's engineers. As a trainee he is teamed up with fight-ready Sakurai and stolid Iwaizumi and fellow Haruka Kōmi who has encyclopedic knowledge of trains. Together they learn how security officers for the train line work and get involved in more than one tricky situation.
Supertrain is an American television drama/adventure series that ran on NBC from February 7 to May 5, 1979. Nine episodes were made, including a 2-hour pilot episode.
In the Yorkshire Dales in the 1870s, the shantytown of Jericho is the home of a community that will live, thrive and die in the shadow of the viaduct they've been brought together to build.
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 Ben Calhoun. Costars included Gary Collins, Robert Random and Ellen Burstyn.
In 1921, friends and train porters Junior and Zeke find their unbreakable bond stretched to its limits when tragedy inspires them to take conflicting paths to a better life.
Michael Portillo travels on the great train routes of Europe, as he retraces the journeys featured in George Bradshaw's 1913 Continental Railway Guide.
A crew battle deadly ice and snow to keep a crucial supply route open.
Great Railway Journeys, originally titled Great Railway Journeys of the World, is a recurring series of travel documentaries produced by BBC Television. The premise of each programme is that the presenter, typically a well-known figure from the arts or media, would make a journey by train, usually through a country or to a destination to which they had a personal connection. There were four series broadcast on BBC Two between 1980 and 1999, with the shorter series title being used for all but the first. In 2010 a similar series also aired on BBC Two, Great British Railway Journeys.
Michael Portillo crosses the Atlantic to ride the railroads of America, armed with Appleton's General Guide to the United States, published in 1879.
The year 2004 saw two hundred years of railways in Great Britain and to celebrate this historic landmark year, dedicated train enthusiast Mark Williams traveled the length and breadth of Britain in an exciting new TV series. Travelling the length and breadth of Britain, Mark tracks down the nation's fascinating railway heritage and gets to grips with locos such as the magnificent 160 ton Duchess of Sutherland. From the earliest designs of Richard Trevithick and George and Robert Stephenson to the advent of Class 31s, and from the development of London's Underground to the evolution of railway coaches, he reveals how our railways have changed over 200 years of history.
