Train Movies

A light and somewhat satirical look at the problems and pleasures of Continental holiday travel. A passenger on the Hook Continental Express from...

The story of how newspapers were distributed during the Blitz, stressing the importance of an accurate and objective press on the home front.

A documentary on the passing of the steam locomotive as the primary means of transportation in the United States

A sick, middle-aged man gets on a train bound for Tianjin. A young man told him that this train could take him to Córdoba, or anywhere...

Several films have been made about the lives of train hobos, but Aleksi Pohjavirta's A Good Day to Die is probably the first Finnish documentary on...

The story of the independent railroad and its survival against the giants.

A Union Pacific production outlining the Big Boy locomotive and the history of the last great steam engine to rule the rails

London to Brighton in Four Minutes is a short film produced by the BBC Film Unit. The camera was manually undercranked to produce a 'fast-motion'...

The Ashmont-Mattapan High Speed Line operates 2.6 miles of track from Ashmont Station to Mattapan Station just south of Boston. We capture this neat...

The sory of the railroad's roll in getting beef to your local market

The fading romance of the era of train travel is portrayed in the faces of railway workers, at lonely stations where trains no longer stop, on empty...

A documentary about Tama, a female calico cat who gained fame for being a station master and operating officer at Kishi Station on the Kishigawa Line...

An eager-to-please Ticket Inspector struggles with the morality of her job after being given the following ultimatum: fine or be fired!

The majority of railway vehicles are fitted with cast iron brake blocks which, although relatively cheap to produce, wear rapidly in service and need...

A train that is carrying the formula for a valuable form of granulated gasoline disappears before it reaches its destination. Railroad investigators...

A film about the Southern Pacific Railroad and the men and women who keep the trains running.

When a business tycoon allows himself to be 'snared' into seeing some films in a railway traffic manager's office, there must be a reason for it. In...

In this documentary, Chicago, America’s Railroad Capital, you’ll discover how the third largest U.S. city became the nation’s most...

This documentary introduces you to the entirety of the Amtrak service network, which spans from coast to coast, and border to border. From both...

Steamin' on Jack Parker's HO Layout, Wire Your Layout for DCC, The Legends of Steamtown National History Site, and more.