Basic Info

First Air: November 11, 2008

Status: Ended

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Last Episode

Name: Transcontinental

Season: 1, Episode: 8

Air Date: 2008-12-30

Runtime: 60 min

Matt rides the busiest freight line anywhere, Union Pacific's Omaha to Sacramento — on a route that crosses the world's longest rail causeway, though the world's largest rail yard and over the fearsome Donner Pass, where Matt and the train crews must free the tracks from huge blocks of ice. The episode covers the building of the transcontinental railroad in the 1860s.

Extreme Trains

2008 1 seasons 8 episodes

Overview

Extreme Trains is a television program on The History Channel that describes the daily operations of the railroads in the United States of America, from coal trains to passenger trains and famous routes. It is hosted by Matt Bown, a train conductor for Pan Am Railways in Maine, whose interest is railways and the technology of them, in which Matt is living his lifelong dream. The series was first aired in the United States on November 11, 2008 and ran until December 30, 2008. The show has since been shown in the United Kingdom in April 2009.