Train Movies

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

A film aimed at showing young people the range of careers open to them if they joined British Rail as an apprentice. It shows the support and...

Trains travel through the night without stopping. The clatter of the carriages quickly disappears, along with the wail of the locomotive. The people...

The 28-minute presentation Bybanen i Bergen – minutt for minutt showed a trip on the Bergen Light Rail from Nesttun to Bergen, shortly after...

Film on the movement of material from the Chicago and Northwestern System.

The re-signalling of 1000 track miles from the River Weaver to the Clyde brings the whole line from London to Glasgow under one system of push-button...

In the cold darkness of a winter's night a Sleeper Train winds its way from Cornwall to London. It's Christmas 1954. A group of Soldiers are...

End of line railroad operations. Abandonment and sale of equipment, operations under the LNE Railway, Lehigh Valley, Conrail and Norfolk Southern.

The Ashtabula train disaster and bridge collapse was the worst train disaster of the 19th century, claiming the lives of 97 people. The engineering...

A film about winter railroading in the Canadian Rockies and the men who keep the lines clear. The stretch between Revelstoke and Field, British...

The cement belt from Bath to Martins Creek and main line operations from Pen Argyl to Maybrook.

Includes all new footage which captures the WP&YR experience and history from Skagway, Alaska to Fraser, B.C. and from Fraser, B.C. to Carcross,...

The subject of the first essay is cinema itself: an apparatus of representation wherein fact and fiction are recreated. As such, the pro-filmic facts...

Peleshian transforms footage from a train ride into a metaphor for the shape of a life. Early images of faces on the train give way to landscape, a...

Passing Moments is the story of a chance encounter between two people on a train and the moment in time that they experience.

A drama shot in 5 hours and 17 minutes, exactly the time it takes to travel by rail from Malmö to Stockholm. It's mid-winter. On a train a man...

Documentary on the railroads that drive the nation written and produced by Jackson Pokress.

Railman is a film concerned as much with the distribution of roles within the film collective as with getting “as close as possible to the life...