Railroad Movies

Short documentary about the new ICE. On March 19, 1985, the ICE was officially handed over to the Bundesbahn at Krupp in Essen during a rollout ceremo...

A mother is waiting or her son, a railroad engineer, to return home. The night becomes stormy and she discovers that a broken railroad trestle lies at...

A production of the association of American Railroads outlining the wonders of America's rail system.

Discover the "character" of one of Missouri's oldest tie and lumber operations through this archival black-and-white film that documents one of the la...

A short documentary profiling the restoration and anniversary exhibition of the titular 4-4-0 steam locomotive, undertaken in honor of the Centennial...

The film explores how the three British colonies of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island became provinces of Canada and charts the subs...

Arfon spent a week on the Great Central Railway finding out everything a trainee footplate member needs to know. Starting at the bottom, just as a rea...

The Canadian Rockies by Rail takes viewers on a journey through the Pacific Northwest and the Canadian Rockies. The trip on board the Rocky Mountainee...

Documentary about how the arrival of the railway industry impacted Puerto Rican culture economically, socially, and humanistically during the first ha...

Government film on the use of railroads in moving troops to support the war efort.

In this short, a camera pointed towards a window films the landscape as a train moves along the track.

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, Yukon...

In the 1870s Victorian politicians debated the virtues of constructing a 20km-long railway through Melbourne's east, simply to circumvent a privately-...

The Unreserved is an inquiry into the lives of passengers who use the Unreserved Compartment, the cheapest way to travel across India on the Indian Ra...

In the cabin the conductor activates the gear lever; his motion breaks the inertia. Behind is the station, then images of the machinery, the resignati...

A short film by Robert Kirste about the Angels Flight Railway in Bunker Hill.

Vignettes of the New England Steam features the films of noted rail photographers Albert Michaud and William P. Price, as they document the handsome s...

Pioneering 3D promotional film about the Pennsylvania Railroad.

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