Extreme Trains: Transcontinental Railroad - Photo Gallery
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History Channel’s Extreme Trains producer/director Dominic Stobart (left center with brown stocking cap) and the show’s host Matt Bown (center) get a job briefing from Union Pacific switchman/brakeman Blake Benne before sorting cars at the Council Bluffs, Iowa, rail yard.
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History Channel’s Extreme Trains video crew taped at Gibbon Junction (last February), the start of the triple main track where an average of 150 trains a day pass. The video crew taped a westbound intermodal train that had just come through a snowstorm in Illinois and Iowa, while a westbound empty coal train waited to come onto the triple track from the line that goes south to Kansas City.
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Matt Bown, History Channel’s Extreme Trains host, explains to the audience how traction motors on a locomotive are changed at Union Pacific’s locomotive repair facility in North Platte, Neb.
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History Channel’s Extreme Trains video production crew tapes a westbound train east of Ogden, Utah, near Morgan.
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(right) Trent Allen, Union Pacific general director maintenance of way based in Roseville, gives a job briefing to History Channel’s Extreme Trains crew and Margo Bieker from Corporate Relations, before the group hyrails from Truckee, Calif., through Donner Pass, toward Sacramento.
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History Channel’s Extreme Trains producer/director Dominic Stobart (center) reviews a track construction scene with Alan Hardy (left) from the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento, and the show’s host Matt Bown (right). Museum volunteers demonstrated how track was laid during the construction of the Transcontinental railroad.
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History Channel’s Extreme Trains host Matt Bown watches as rail cars go down the hump and are sorted at the J.R. Davis yard in Roseville, Calif.