Trains of Thoughts

Likely in June 1897, a group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at...

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions a...

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

A history of the nation's first transcontinental railway accompanies a steam-train ride through the Canadian Rockies.

A day in the life of a train station.

A one-month-journey of twin sisters from London back to their home, Bangkok, by train. They traveled via the famous trans-Siberian route through many...

An incident from the early days of Québec's quiet revolution, tailor-made for the cartoonist. It is the story of a Montréal commuter train, a unilingu...

On the Train captures from the birth to the last moment of the railway, 98.2 kilometers long and opened in 1992, crossing southern Taiwan.

In the mid 1800s, New York City was one of the most crowded places on earth. The congested streets and pokey transportation system were a source of co...

Impressionistic picture of the Third Avenue Elevated Railway in Manhattan, New York City, before it was demolished. Preserved by the Academy Film Arc...

Ride along as Horseshoe Curve takes you on a captivating behind-the-scenes railroad journey in Pennsylvania's Allegheny Mountains. Trackside views all...

A puffing steam train climbs into the Himalaya, a rolling rumble echoes over the holy waters of the Ganges, an astonishing five million commuters rush...

The remarkable true story of Darius McCollum, a man with Asperger's syndrome whose overwhelming love of transit has landed him in jail 32 times for th...

A journey along the Inlandsbanan, from Mora to Gällivare, in the last summer of 1991 when the passenger traffic is to be shut down. A decision and its...

This short film details the history of the 'Friendship Train', created, following the end of World War II, to travel across the United States to colle...