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1. The Great Train Robbery (1903)

TV-G | 11 min | Short, Action, Adventure

A group of bandits stage a brazen train hold-up, only to find a determined posse hot on their heels.

Director: Edwin S. Porter | Stars: Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, A.C. Abadie, George Barnes, Justus D. Barnes

Votes: 21,052

2. Sleepers West (1941)

Approved | 74 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Mike Shayne tries to distinguish criminals from red herrings as he escorts a surprise witness via rail to a high profile trial in San Francisco.

Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Lloyd Nolan, Lynn Bari, Mary Beth Hughes, Louis Jean Heydt

Votes: 637

3. The Night Flyer (1928)

Passed | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Jimmy Bradley, a fireman on an old locomotive, sees an engineer try to rival him both on the work and love front as they compete for the love of the same woman, and for the run as the official mail train.

Director: Walter Lang | Stars: William Boyd, Jobyna Ralston, Philo McCullough, Anne Schaefer

Votes: 71

4. Girls of the Road (1940)

Approved | 61 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A story of the great-depression era about women hobos, tramps, job-seekers, fugitives and runaways running from or toward something as they hitch-hiked their way across the United States, ... See full summary »

Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Ann Dvorak, Helen Mack, Lola Lane, Ann Doran

Votes: 175

5. Once Over (1928)

22 min | Short, Comedy

A pair of rail-riding bums exit their boxcar in the town of Excema, where they get work as waiters and have trouble with clams, bottles of beer, and pies.

Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: 'Snub' Pollard, Marvin Loback, Thelma Daniels, Harry Martell

Votes: 26

6. The Hero of Nacozari (1934)

63 min | Adventure, Drama

Jesus Garcia Corona was a Mexican railroadman who was killed while stopping a train loaded with TNT from exploding around the mining town of Nacozari, Sonora, Mexico in 1907.

Director: Guillermo Calles | Stars: Ramón Pereda, Lucha Diaz, Antonio R. Frausto, Conchita Banuet

Votes: 17

7. The Runaway Express (1926)

Passed | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Amidst the throbbing thunder of the express-train engines, and the activities at the station, the roundhouse, the dispatcher's office and the switch-room, a young train engineer, Joe Foley,... See full summary »

Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Jack Dougherty, Blanche Mehaffey, Tom O'Brien, Charles K. French

Votes: 24

8. The Freight Train (1954)

11 min | Documentary, Short

How freight trains are put together and how they travel to their destination.

9. The Sheriff of Cochise (1956–1959)
Episode: Freight Train (1957)

30 min | Crime, Drama, Western

Two thugs hold up a diner, leaving the counterman and cook beaten and unconscious. They're spotted by a trucker who phones in a description of the men and their vehicle to the Cochise ... See full summary »

Director: Paul Guilfoyle | Stars: John Bromfield, Stan Jones, William Boyett, Al Lettieri

10. State Trooper (1956–1959)
Episode: Cinder Jungle (1957)

30 min | Drama

Blake helps a railroad detective investigate a wave of freight train robberies.

Director: Richard Irving | Stars: Rod Cameron, Robert Armstrong, Joseph Sargent, Charles Watts

Votes: 10

11. Wild West Tech (2003–2005)
Episode: Train Tech (2004)

TV-G | Documentary, History, Western

The show covers the changes in the railroad industry from the 23 miles in 1830 to the 200,000 miles by 1900. It starts with a basic explanation of how a steam locomotive works and the ... See full summary »

Director: Andrew Nock | Stars: Keith Carradine, Jeff Ellingson, James A.E. Fuentez, Drew Gomber

Votes: 11

12. Alex the Historian (2017– )
Episode: What Happened to Cabooses? (2022)

10 min | Documentary, History, News

A caboose was typically the last car on a freight train that served as the crew quarters when they were off duty, observation site for the rear of the train and storage location for spares ... See full summary »

Star: Alex Adner