The man for the job is commander Kenneth More, who uses a rusty old train for that purpose. Among the other fugitives is the boy's British governess Lauren Bacall and the untrustworthy Herbert Lom.
A cat-and-mouse session between good and bad guys segues into a heart-pounding chase through the frontier. Synopsis : Odd Horten Baard Owe is a neat, meticulous, pipe-smoking train conductor, winding up 40 years of service for the Norwegian railways. But when a man's life has been determined by timetables and clearly-defined journeys along tracks, how does he spend his free hours?
Starting on the night of his retirement dinner, Odd has a series of dislocating experiences: a boy insists that Odd sit by his bedside while he falls asleep; misadventure causes Odd to miss his last run; he witnesses an arrest; he assists an old man and makes a friend; he takes a trip with a blindfolded driver; he adopts a dog; he takes stock late one night at the roundhouse; he revisits his mother's disappointment in him.
How should he live the rest of his life? Synopsis : In this British comedy, William Porter Will Hay is an accident-prone railroad employee whose sister and brother-in-law arrange for him to be made stationmaster at a run-down rail stop in rural Ireland.
Porter meets his new co-workers, aging Jeremiah Moore Marriott and teenaged Albert Graham Moffatt , and discovers that they supplement their meager income by boosting baggage from passing trains.
Porter hopes to increase business by fixing up the station, and he arranges for an excursion by a local football team. Unbeknownst to him, the footballers are actually criminals, and he's just made British Rail accomplices in a gun-running ring. Synopsis : Morton Gabriele Ferzetti , the power-hungry owner of a railroad company, hires Frank Henry Fonda , a gunfighter without a conscience, to kill anyone who stands in the way of the completion of the railroad.
Most interior filming was done in-studio in Rome, Italy. Cast : Antonio Sabato Jr. Synopsis : The Paradise Express is a small-time freight service, struggling for survival against a larger, more streamlined rail company. Faced with bankruptcy, the owners of the underdog railroad challenge their competitors to a race, winner take all. Synopsis : A section boss for the railroad sets out to catch a gang of thieves who have been stealing ore shipments from his company's trains.
Cast : William Collier Jr. Synopsis : The Southwestern Pacific Railroad is in doldrums. Three trains have run off the rails in as many weeks, causing a lot of damage to the coffers and the reputation of the company. When the third accident occurs, the management decides to hold an inquiry. Farrel MacDonald explanation. Bruce William Collier , the son of the railroad president, volunteers to investigate the cause of the accidents.
Synopsis : The Polar Express revolves around Billy Hayden McFarland , who longs to believe in Santa Claus but finds it quite difficult to do so, what with his family's dogged insistence that all of it, from the North Pole, to the elves, to the man himself, is all just a myth. This all changes, however, on Christmas Eve, when a mysterious train visits Billy in the middle of the night, promising to take him and a group of other lucky children to the North Pole for a visit with Santa.
The train's conductor Tom Hanks along with the other passengers help turn Billy's crisis in faith into a journey of self-discovery. Synopsis : Kidnapping, romance and intrigue shift this s period drama into high gear, filmed specially aboard the famous luxury train called Pride of Africa. While the train waits to leave the station, thieves sneak aboard and steal passengers' unguarded valuables. Fearful for the train's reputation, its owner hires local tour guide David Webb Robert Powell to catch the thief and act as security to ensure the Pride of Africa keeps her good name.
As the train gets under way, unsuspected travelers hatch sinister schemes, leading Webb hot on a trail of abduction, robbery and possible murder. Frankie has a young sister, Louise Dorothy Comingore , whom he has kept at a boarding school away from the stench of his racketeering.
Mannie's young son, Joe James Blakely , is also ignorant of his father's profession. Louise and Joe meet, and Joe tries to make love to her. Frankie interrupts and, in a fight that follows, kills Joe. Mannie vows to get Frankie. The latter, sentenced to Alcatraz, fears for Louise's safety and makes her promise to take a trip abroad.
Synopsis : He has a good job working as a railroad man, but Andrea Marcocci is not happy. An obscure disease haunts him. His daughter Giulia leaves her husband, seeking shelter in the arms of another man, who does not love her. Unable to face these troubles alone, Andrea starts to drink. Inevitably, the booze interferes with his work and he causes a serious rail accident.
Desperately trying to hold onto his job, he goes to work on a strike day, further alienating himself from his friends and colleagues. Synopsis : The great comic genius of the silent era still shines in these two programs. In "The Railrodder" 25 min. Perched on his seat, this endearing traveler chugs nonchalantly past some of Canada's most spectacular landmarks.
These programs are a memorable and intimate view of one of the most indestructible of slapstick comics. Then a terrifying railway collision leaves a little boy orphaned. Tom takes the boy into his home and — step by step, strength by strength — learns how to bond with the wife he adores by opening his heart to a boy who needs the security of a devoted family.
Synopsis : Dinah Sheridan plays the mother of three children who must live in reduced circumstances when her husband Ian Cuthbertson , a government official, is arrested on a false charge of treason.
The kids adapt rather well to their new environment, a community located on the edges of a railway. They befriend a kindly porter Bernard Cribbins and a wealthy gent William Mervyn , both of whom strive to prove their father's innocence. Great Western pannier tank engine , now on display in Oxenhope, was filmed hauling the train. Synopsis : The Railway Children follows the fortunes of three resourceful children in turn-of-the-century England.
An affluent family, the Waterburys fall upon difficult times when Mr. Waterbury Michael Kitchen is hauled away by the police for reasons not readily apparent. Forced to move to a small village, the family is held together by Mrs. Waterbury Jenny Agutter , who ekes out a living by selling her stories to magazines. The three Waterbury siblings — Bobbie Jemima Rooper , Peter Jack Blumenau , and Phyllis Clare Thomas — try to help their mother make ends meet and take to spending time by the railroad, where they meet a host of eccentric acquaintances.
Decades later, still suffering the trauma of his wartime experiences, Lomax and his wife Patti Kidman discover that the Japanese interpreter responsible for much of his treatment is still alive and set out to confront him. Synopsis : When a prominent politician and a young woman vanish inside a London subway station, Scotland Yard's inspector investigates and makes a horrifying discovery.
Not only did a group of 19th-century tunnel workers survive a cave-in, but they lived for years in a secret underground enclave by consuming the flesh of their own dead. Now the lone descendant of this grisly tribe has surfaced, prowling the streets of London for fresh victims and a new mate.
Synopsis : It's Mi-sun's first day as a railroad attendant. Her first assignment is an overnight trip through Korea and she's understandably nervous. But it's not the motley group of passengers that has her feeling uneasy. It's the train itself. It turns out that some of the cars on the train were involved in a devastating crash 16 years earlier in which people died. Rumor has it those cars are haunted and it's not long before Mi-sun starts to experience eerie visions.
Synopsis : A Los Angeles subway train is brought to a slamming stop, the tunnel partially collapsed, and several people injured. The survivors must figure out what caused it, and must deal with the greater danger that soon faces them. McGowan Director : J. Synopsis : When a series of train wrecks occur, railroad superintendent Mark Bryson Williams is held responsible, but the real culprit is a crooked foreman who lusts after Bryson's job.
All of this is proven in due time by the superintendent's indigent brother Lee MacDonald -- who turns out to be a railroad detective in disguise. Synopsis : A young boy idolizes famed train engineer Casey Jones and is devastated when his hero is killed in a train wreck. The boy grows up to be an engineer like his idol. One day his train loses its breaks and wrecks, despite his best efforts to save it.
He's thrown from the train when it crashes, leaving many to believe he cowardly jumped. Can he ever clear his name? Synopsis : In this rousing action-packed post-Civil War adventure, legendary Western hero Randolph Scott stars as Britt Canfield, the eldest of four brothers who have seen their family's Virginia plantation stolen by carpetbaggers.
With no choice but to start over, Britt accepts a position to help build the Yankee-funded Santa Fe Railroad. Britt takes on superstitious Indians, crooked gamblers, vengeful war widows, and most dangerous of all, his three brothers -- vicious Yankee haters who'll stop at nothing to prevent the completion of the Santa Fe.
Synopsis : This train heist adventure, featuring a cast of martial arts all-stars, follows competing gangs and their attempts to rob a luxury train and its wealthy passengers. Synopsis : Passengers on the Shanghai Express are more concerned that the notorious Shanghai Lil is on board than the fact that a civil war is happening around them. When Chinese guerillas stop the train, a British Army doctor is taken hostage.
Lil saves him, but can she make him believe that she hasn't changed from the woman he loved five years earlier? Synopsis : In this wild comedy adventure, rail passenger George Caldwell Gene Wilder finds that a romantic escapade with a sultry secretary Jill Clayburgh puts him in the middle of a Hitchcockian murder plot.
Leaping on and off the train, in and out of roomettes, bars and dining cars, George teams up with an amiable, small-time crook Richard Pryor to defy the murderer's henchmen, FBI agents, and a host of other outrageous characters. Although a fictional railroad name "AMRoad" appears on the train, original color schemes as well as car names and numbers were not changed. Interior train shots, including sleeping compartments, were filmed on a soundstage using near-accurate replicas.
The train wreck sequence was filmed using a mock-up engine and station at Burbank Airport. Inclusion of this scene caused Amtrak to withdraw from the film, pushing much of the filming to Canada. Cast : A. Synopsis : A powerful Mayan curse causes snakes to hatch in the stomach of a young woman, devouring her from the inside out.
Her only chance for survival is to get to Los Angeles to have the curse lifted by a shaman. With only hours to live, she jumps on a train from Mexico. Fellow passengers are now trapped aboard, soon to be victims of these flesh-eating vipers. Synopsis : A failed climate-change experiment kills all life on Earth except for a lucky few onboard the Snowpiercer.
For 17 years these survivors travel the globe creating their own economy and class system. Led by Curtis Chris Evans , a group of lower-class citizens living in squalor at the back of the train are determined to get to the front and spread the wealth.
Synopsis : A train leaves Los Angeles with a Nazi spy, a woman, a reporter, their respective sidekicks, and a suitcase with a ticking time bomb somewhere on board. Synopsis : In New Jersey, Finbar McBride Peter Dinklage is a four-foot-tall lonely man who chooses to live the life of a hermit in an abandoned train station following the death of his friend.
While he is there, he unexpectedly meets and befriends a couple of fellow loners. Troubled Olivia Patricia Clarkson is an artist devastated by the loss of her son and separation from her husband, while carefree and friendly Joe Bobby Cannavale runs a hot dog stand.
The three unlikely friends each deal with their urge to connect compared with their individual need for isolation. Synopsis : In Victorian England, a performing dog escapes from his mean master and ends up at a small country railway station. Named "Jim" by station porter Bob, the little dog quickly becomes a favorite of the local orphanage children, especially sad young Henry Thomas Sangster , who daily waits for the train that will take him home.
When a wicked businessman plots to close the orphanage forever, Bob and the children fight back in a struggle threatened by bribery, dognapping and even an assassin who wants to kill the Queen! Filming Locations : Filmed in several parts of the Bluebell Railway. Synopsis : This thriller is set aboard a Frankfurt bound train and chronicles the desperate flight of an East German refugee.
When the other Germans learn that the fellow is aboard, they demand that he be turned over to the authorities. Fortunately, the chief authority is a renegade and plans to disobey his orders. His actions nearly cause an international incident between the US and the Soviets and the CO is forced to reluctantly turn in the prisoner.
Having read all about Guy, Bruno is aware that the tennis player is trapped in an unhappy marriage to to wife Miriam Laura Elliott and has been seen in the company of senator's daughter Ann Morton Ruth Roman. Baiting Guy, Bruno reveals that he feels trapped by his hated father Jonathan Hale. As Guy listens with detached amusement, Bruno discusses the theory of "exchange murders. With no known link between the two men, the police would be none the wiser, would they?
Synopsis : Fred Christopher Lambert has just stolen some major documents from a birthday celebration given by the Paris elite for one of their kind, Helena Isabelle Adjani.
He takes off into the Metro just as it is shut down for the remaining few hours of predawn darkness and once in the Metro encounters several characters in the tunnels. There is a bodybuilder who works out with subway parts, a purse-snatcher, and a flower seller of dubious ethics. Through all of these encounters and activities, the police and others — including Helena — are after Fred for their own reasons, none of which coincide.
As Fred discovers, going underground can be risky. Synopsis : The New York City subways provide the common setting for this modern anthology comprised of ten shorts from some of Hollywood's top directors. The episodes are based on real stories submitted by scores of subway regulars. Synopsis : The action takes place on a speeding steam train racing from London to Edinburgh. Lady Margaret Carstairs Mary Forbes possess a karat diamond, known as the "Star of Rhodesia," and her son employs Sherlock Holmes Basil Rathbone to protect the priceless jewel until it reaches its home in Scotland.
Lady Margaret's son is found murdered and the "Star of Rhodesia" has been whisked away. Watson, and Inspector Lestrade Dennis Hoey investigate.
Along for the ride is an old friend of Watson's, Major Duncan-Bleek Alan Mowbray , who may or may not be as disinterested a party as he appears. Synopsis : The story is the basic slasher film premise, remounted on a moving train. A college fraternity decides to hold a New Year's Eve party on a train. But an uninvited guest, a disturbed ex-fraternity member, decides to take revenge on the partying students by killing them off one by one in increasingly grisly fashion.
Synopsis : Three of the world's most celebrated directors join together to direct a trilogy of interwoven stories set aboard a train travelling from Central Europe to Rome. The characters connect through casual encounters but the stories are related through their themes of social status, the mystery of chance, and sacrifice.
Synopsis : Titfield Thunderbolt takes place in a tiny British village serviced by a branch railway line. When the government plans to close the line down, the locals are in a panic, except for a group intending to set up an expensive bus service.
And those 50 worked out. So then they hired another and slowly but surely, the labor force built up. Frank Chin: They especially recruited the Chinese. They sent out circulars saying, you know, good jobs on the railroad, and it attracted us. We needed the money.
Narrator: In the Kwangtung province of China, decades of flood, famine, war, and depression had left much of the population without a decent living. Many men left home for railroad jobs in America to support their families; others left simply to make a new life in a new land. Frank Chin: I don't think they saw the West as a white country. They saw it as a country, just a country for anybody.
And the Chinese wanted a piece. They were willing to work for it. But they wanted a piece for themselves, a piece for the families. David Bain, Writer: They were certainly harder workers and more conscientious. They didn't get drunk every night and have fights. But one of the most interesting things that I think kept them going was just the question of diet. If you went to the Irish camps, you would find them eating boiled beef and boiled beans and drinking boiled coffee.
And if you went over to the Chinese, you'd begin to smell the fertile aromas of garlic and cuttlefish and stir fried pork. When they drank, they didn't drink from ditches. They drank boiled tea.
And they also didn't come down with dysentery the way that the Irish workers did because of this boiled tea. Sue Fawn Chung, Historian: It was at least better than working in China where there was very little food and famine and starvation going on.
A Sunday meal for the railroad workers was an elaborate banquet in their eyes. They would have imported foods from China that they were familiar with: oysters, dried meat. They would have pork, and chicken and abalone. This was really a magnificent meal.
Narrator: By the turn of , the Central Pacific had 6, Chinese immigrants on the payroll, from ages 13 to As much as 80 percent of the CP work force was Chinese. At the imposing Cape Horn, rising above the town of Colfax, they had to make a ledge where track could be run 1, feet above the valley floor. David Bain, Writer: The only way to get the railroad line across was to start slow, to carve out a narrow shelf just wide enough for a man to walk.
Then, over time, it could be enlarged until they could get entire crews out to chisel away the cliff face. Frank Chin: They had to cut a very hard rock. It had to be cut by hand. Tediously, cut by hand. It's hard, back-breaking, dangerous work. David Bain, Writer: They lowered them by ropes, probably looping them around trees a couple of times up on the top and they would drill in a foot into this cliff face and then they would fill it with black power and attach a fuse and light it and then scramble up those ropes as quickly as they could.
Narrator: By mid-summer , track-laying crews were pushing out beyond Colfax, 55 miles east of Sacramento, laying iron rails, wooden ties, and 10, spikes every mile. And that was the easy labor. Grading remained the balkiest work. Up to kegs of black powder a day were spent blasting through cuts. Deep ravines had to be bridged by wooden trestles or dirt fill.
As the crews pushed farther up the western slope of the Sierra Nevada, shale, sandstone, and cemented gravel began to give way to granite -- and the big question loomed: could those mountains be bested? Out on the Great Plains, Thomas C.
Durant was still in a swivet. The Union Pacific had completed only 40 miles of railroad in , and they were the easiest 40 on the line. But as the company geared up for the work season, there was no shortage of labor. Tens of thousands of Civil War veterans had landed out of work, roaming the country, anxious to get as far as possible from the scenes of horror they'd witnessed. Durant hired as his new chief engineer General Grenville M.
He was a confidante of the two most important military men in the country: Generals Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman. And he had already proved a useful agent to Durant. As a Union officer, Dodge had provided the Doctor classified intelligence to aid his contraband cotton operation. Stanley Hirshson, Historian: Dodge was probably as good a chief engineer -- that is surveyor locating routes -- he was as good as Peter Dey.
But he was nowhere near as honest. He was imbued with this overwhelming desire to make money. Jack and his brother Dan had a reputation in railroad construction. On the Philadelphia and Erie, before the war, Casement crews had once laid three miles of track in a single day. But when Durant pushed him to take the track-laying contract, Jack said he'd have to check with Mrs. He lived in a democratic household, he said, and generally his wife outvoted him.
In fact, Frances "Frank" Casement was in a fragile state. Work and war had kept her husband away from their Painesville, Ohio, home nearly five of their seven years of marriage.
And just weeks before Jack's new job offer, the Casement's four-year-old son, Charlie, had died of scarlet fever. But like Dodge, Jack Casement was a man in a hurry, convinced misfortune could be outrun, and fortune could be run down. Casement spent the winter in Omaha overseeing construction of boxcars specially outfitted to serve as dormitories-on-wheels for his track-laying crews, waiting for the spring thaw so supplies and iron could be shipped up the Missouri River to UP warehouses, and trying mightily to hold to the temperance pledge he'd given his wife, who remained home in Ohio.
Voice, reading letter from Mrs. Casement: My Dear Husband, When I go to bed here all alone I think so much about Charlie and I see his little pale face while he lay sick, then his little body as he lay in his coffin and then that little mound of earth.
I have never missed Charlie so much since he died as I have since you left me. I love you dearly and it is so hard for me to live away from you. Your Wife, Frank. Voice, reading letter from Jack Casement: My Dear Wife, I am first rate but impatient to have the ice go out of the river.
It is mighty lonesome here and I am impatient to get to work. I want to see the thing start before I leave here. Just as soon as I get a bar laid I mean to travel home for my true love. I love you more than all the world besides. Write to me often. God Bless you and Keep you happy. This cold weather does not look much like opening up the river, does it? I am trying to be patient, but it is rather hard. Goodnight dearest. Your wife, Frank. Voice, reading letter from Jack Casement: My dear wife, The river is beginning to rise.
I have been working with a few men grading and putting in a side track. We will commence track-laying next Monday. Narrator: The flat Nebraska prairie presented little difficulty for UP crews.
The real obstacles were the people who saw themselves as the stewards of the land: the Northern and Southern Cheyenne Indians, the Sioux and the Arapaho. Skilled on a horseback, and with bow-and-arrow or rifle, these tribes moved by season from field of plenty to field of plenty, from hunting ground to hunting ground, sustained by the seemingly inexhaustible supply of buffalo.
Donald Fixico, Historian: The buffalo is a great symbol and great being to the Plains people because it's really their staff of life and even more than that. They figured out how to use the buffalo 52 different ways for food, supplies, war hunting implements, things like that. And so the hooves for example are boiled to use as glue.
The hump back is, that part of the buffalo is really kind of sturdy and so it's used for making shields, the hides making a teepee for example.
Took about 12 to 14 hides to do that. Narrator: For many Plains Indian tribes, the buffalo was the center of the natural world; following the path of this animal, they learned to respect the potency of nature: in its power to give, and to take away.
So when white settlers began streaming across the plains toward gold in California and then nearby Colorado, Indians regarded them as a new force of nature -- and an increasingly dangerous one. These travelers spread smallpox and typhoid, ran off buffalo herds, decimated the Indians foraging fields and fouled their water sources. By the time Pacific Railroad construction began, starvation and disease had wracked the Cheyenne, the Sioux, and the Arapaho. Donald Fixico, Historian: The white intruders were changing the land.
The game was becoming more difficult to find. Elk and buffalo, antelope was becoming more difficult to pursue because the people on the wagon trains, they also needed food. And obviously you had warriors who were, especially young warriors who were very upset by this. Narrator: Though many of the Plains Indians remained on friendly terms with the Anglo-American travelers, the more militant tribes treated them as they would any other rival: they robbed and looted wagon trains, raided settlements and ranches, stole horses, mules, and cattle.
On occasion, they killed, scalped and mutilated their victims. Peace was fragile; settlers rarely tried to distinguish between friendly and unfriendly Indians. Fred Gamst, Anthropologist: More and more white settlers came and coveted more and more of the land.
Governor Evans of Colorado territory in abrogates the treaties with the Plains Indians. And then he encourages Colorado militias, vigilante type militias to go attack and raid the Indian camps. And in , the camp of Cheyenne Chief Black Kettle was raided. And about men, women, and children of the Cheyenne were badly butchered by these vigilante militias.
They were clubbed, stabbed, shot. Accounts of the time talk about Indian women trying to crawl away from the carnage and being chased down and killed. Narrator: Immediate and bloody reprisals followed the butchery at Sand Creek; an army of a thousand Northern Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Sioux stalked up the Platte Valley, murdering soldiers and civilians, menacing stage lines and wagon trains, ripping up miles of telegraph wire and destroying the town of Julesburg, Colorado, which sat astride the proposed UP line.
But by then, Indian leaders understood dramatics would not slow the steady press of westward migration. Pawnee warriors read the signs, and joined up with the U. Cavalry to help protect western settlers from other warring parties. The more visionary Cheyenne and Sioux leaders -- like Red Cloud -- concentrated their efforts north in the Powder River region, where the Bozeman trail threatened to destroy the only good buffalo hunting left to them.
Farther south, near the Union Pacific line, their people were simply fighting for their lives. David Bain, Writer: The winter of and had been a very brutal one. It had been colder than usual, and the Indian tribes had suffered terribly from famine. The U. They had scheduled peace talks for June. And the tribal leaders were inclined to wait to see what the whites were going to bring to the peace table.
But they just absolutely could not control the younger hot heads who, as soon as they could get out onto the Plains, were going out and rustling horses and livestock to feed their families, to survive.
Narrator: Small parties of Union Pacific surveyors were harassed and shot at. A few men were even killed. And their boss, Grenville Dodge, was apoplectic, sending pleas for help to his old army mate, General William Tecumseh Sherman.
So the commander of the U. Army's western district headed out to assess the problem for himself. Stanley Hirshson, Historian: They met very few Indians at all. When they did meet a few Indians, they were very, very friendly.
When they got to Colorado City a delegation came and asked them about protection against the Indians. And Sherman's answer was, 'There's no Indian menace around here. All you want is the Army stationed here so it will make Colorado City prosperous.
Narrator: By the summer of , the Casement crews were a juggernaut. In July, they built past the hundred mile mark; by fall past the th meridian. Jack Casement's men made as much as three miles in a day, fixing into place tons of iron rail in 12 hours' time -- moving down the tracks in the foot-long rolling dormitories Casement had built. David Bain, Writer: Casement knew how to manage men.
He knew how to get a 10 or 11 hour day out of his workers. He was very efficient and tough about moving forward. Fred Gamst, Anthropologist: The model of organization, the marshaling of material logistically, etc. A lot of the construction workers were Confederate and Union soldiers used to taking orders and, and the discipline that this kind of work required. David Bain, Writer: Plus you had thousands of poor Irish who had just come over after the potato famine.
They had filled up the teeming cities of the East and slowly been pushed westward. It was a rough life. The days were long; the work was hard; the sun beat down; the winter winds howled; there was always the threat that there was an Indian band over the next hillside. Fred Gamst, Anthropologist: Well, if you're a laborer there, there wasn't too much good news. They had simple, simple foods: boiled beans, the equivalent of hardtack. The water often had Giardia in it; it caused dysentery.
They lived in tents and the outfit cars with their berths four or five high that you slept in. They had very little opportunity for baths or bathing, personal hygiene. So the stench both within the cars and outside of the cars had to be tremendous. You got your two or so dollars a day and your inadequate meals such as they were. And then you could look forward to the pleasures of Hell On Wheels. Narrator: Hell On Wheels was a town made to carry; as the railroad workers moved down the prairie, the entire town could be packed onto flatbed cars or wagons and hauled to the next felicitous spot, re-constituted and renamed.
Carol Bowers, Historian: End of tracks towns sprang up very quickly as the railroad came along. Many of the buildings were tents, maybe four posts in the ground with a canvas top for a cover. Many of the gambling halls and the saloons would operate 24 hours a day and one of the things that settlers mentioned frequently in their letters and journals was the annoyance from the noise of these gambling halls, the saloons.
People shouting in the night. It was very noisy, very crowded, and very rough. Most of the women coming along in that point were entrepreneurs. They were prostitutes who were here primarily for the same reason that the men were following this westward press of empire which was to make quick money and lots of it.
And so they would locate themselves wherever there was a fluid population of men with money to spend. Voice, reading W. Immediately in front of Bull's Big Tent occurred the first murder I ever witnessed.
In 10 minutes after that shot was fired the excitement had subsided. The street was clear, the games were in full blast, and the cry of "Promenade to the bar! Carol Bowers, Historian: Bull's big tent was a full-service establishment. They had almost every kind of gambling game that anyone could desire to play. And in the back there were cubicles that were partitioned with canvas for the women to transact business with their customers.
And then a Dr. Allen announced that he had established offices in the rear of Bull's Big Tent and specialized in the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases. So actually you could go to the big tent, you could spend an afternoon or evening's diversion, catch things that you really did not want to have, and hopefully have them taken care of before you headed back on the railroad.
Narrator: As winter brought work to a halt in , many railroad workers settled into the lascivious comforts of the newest end of track town: North Platte, Nebraska. Jack Casement had much to celebrate: his crews had made miles in , and back home in Ohio, his wife had given birth to a son. But not even that happy news could pull Casement from his pursuit of money. General Jack decided to stay on in North Platte, to make a little extra on side bets. That winter he built a boarding house, a general store to cash in on his free freighting privileges, and a cattle ranch so he could take a contract to provide beef to his own UP work-gangs.
Casement: Dear Jack, Be careful of your health. And for the sake of our little boy more for your own sake, beware of the tempter in the form of strong drink. Do come home as soon as possible. Here it is almost Christmas and I am still here. There is so much to do. We want two or three hundred cows for next summer, are building a large ice house, have built a good slaughter house and Blacksmith shop, wash house and corral, so you see we are getting quite a ranch.
Darling be as patient as you can. You don't want to see me more than I do you. God Bless and Keep you happy. Casement: My Dear Husband, If you don't come home and stay with us some this winter you will never know any thing more of this baby than you did of your first.
Narrator: Jack Casement wasn't about to go home, not now that America was watching. With the North and South reunited, the nation had finally turned its attention to the joining of East and West. The railroad line was crawling with correspondents and photographers. A new and exotic dateline -- "End of Tracks" -- festooned newspapers across the country. Telegraph wires strung alongside the tracks carried news of the iron road, its daily progress, and future it promised: "Great indeed will be the vitality of the republic when the warm blood from its heart pulsates to the remote extremities.
This magic key will unlock All that stood in the way of this new bounty was the road's completion. But that would prove more difficult than anyone imagined. In the fall of , as the Central Pacific completed its track to Cisco, 92 miles east of Sacramento, Chinese work gangs were hurried to Donner Summit, where seven separate tunnels had to be dug.
The most difficult was number six, the Summit Tunnel. November snows were already beginning to blanket the mountains. Forty-four snowstorms hit the summit that season. But inside the man-made caves, work continued around the clock, in three eight-hour shifts, at four separate headings: one on the east side, one on the west.
And two in the center, where the men had to be lowered by ropes a hundred feet down an eight-byfoot man-made shaft. Even with 12 to 15 men drilling at each face and hundreds of barrels of black powder expended daily, the Central Pacific partners figured it would take 15 months to break through the tunnel.
And remember that we're working with hand drills and black blasting powder. It's not very efficient. It takes a lot of human effort and a lot of money to pay for that blasting powder. Wendell Huffman, Historian: The Central Pacific is building a foot a day through these tunnels -- and it's just agonizing for them.
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Carefully researched and exquisitely detailed, this premier collection is a must have addition for your Trainz collection. A beautiful replica of the railways of central Eurasia, in the Ural mountain range. With the assistance of Google maps the relief and profile of the railway has been authentically recreated.
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Official DLC 24 Products. All DLC Products. Bundles 23 Products. Featured Content Creators. Search Type keyword and hit enter. Creating locomotives and routes for Train Simulator that are true works of art. Smokebox locomotives all belong to Dovetail Games' " Pro Range " of add-ons. The Pro Range is aimed at the serious train simulation enthusiast looking for a complex machine to master. Nevertheless, they can be used with the gameplay settings on either Expert or Simple Controls as well as featuring configurable difficulty settings that can be changed on the fly.
The locomotives have clickable controls inside their extremely detailed 3-D cabs but are also compatible with the F4 "HUD" on-screen buttons and sliders, and with Xbox controllers. This flexibility makes them ideal for casual or less experienced players as well as experts and those looking for a real challenge.
Locomotive , the last of the FEF-3 Class, holds the honor of being the longest continuously operating locomotive in the world and the only one never to be retired by a Class I Railroad, continuing on regular services to this day. Available in two all-black Union Pacific liveries, one of which includes white-walled driving tires, chrome finish on some parts, silver grey striping along the edge of runboards, and gold painted cab front windows frames.
The FEF-3 is also fitted with diesel multiple unit MU controls, meaning it can run in tandem with a diesel locomotive, and features functioning in-cab signalling equipment.
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