2016 · 4 seasons · 46m · ★ 5.8
A journey riding the rails around the world, from the locomotive to rail traffic control to the maintenance depot.
Start from S1E1 · Glacier Express
E12016 · 46m
The Glacier Express features cutting-edge versions of old technology to pull the train up the steepest slopes on its route across the Swiss Alps.
E22016 · 46m
Japans Tokaido Shinkansen, known as the bullet train, operates on a dedicated railway line at up to 285 km/h.
E32016 · 46m
The iconic Canadian travels between Vancouver and Toronto; passengers travel in vintage streamliner cars built in the 1950s.
E42016 · 46m
The White Pass and Yukon route was built in 1869 to take miners and supplies to the Klondike gold fields, and was the worlds first containerized freight railway.
E52016 · 46m
The highly-specialized North Rail Express container train travels from Narvik in the Norwegian Arctic Circle to Oslo, delivering cargo of fish as quickly as possible.
E62016 · 46m
The Ghan takes passengers on a three-day, two-night journey through Australia, from Adelaide in the south to Darwin in the north; the Pichi Pichi Railway offers passengers a trip on an original steam locomotive train.
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