Rocky Mountain Railroad
The all-new series casts a spotlight on the elite crews assembled to keep the nation's critical freight and passenger trains rolling during the winter months by battling deadly avalanches, monster icicles, steep rockslides, and dangerous wildlife. Featuring the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Ontario Northland Railway, ROCKY MOUNTAIN RAILROAD takes viewers on an exclusive journey to Canada's most extreme railways, where the resilient crews do whatever it takes to keep the critical lifeline running smoothly.
- 2018-2018
- 1 season
- Reality
The all-new series casts a spotlight on the elite crews assembled to keep the nation's critical freight and passenger trains rolling during the winter months by battling deadly avalanches, monster icicles, steep rockslides, and dangerous wildlife. Featuring the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Ontario Northland Railway, ROCKY MOUNTAIN RAILROAD takes viewers on an exclusive journey to Canada's most extreme railways, where the resilient crews do whatever it takes to keep the critical lifeline running smoothly.
Season 1 Episode Guide
8 Episodes 2018
Episode 1
Avalanche
60 mins
After a massive overnight blizzard, a train is heading into an avalanche danger zone. The rail workers team takes action to make a controlled avalanche instead of a possible catastrophic one.
Episode 2
Bridge Over Hell Creek
42 mins
Canadian Pacific Railway crews transport a huge payload of coal across the Rookies. Plus, a hockey team is stranded in the frozen wilderness. (Documentary).
Episode 3
Tunnel to Hell
Treacherous terrain threatens to derail a 2 kilometre-long grain train; a massive polar bear trap is delivered to a remote arctic community in Moosenee Ontario.
Episode 4
Deadly Washout
When a seasonal change brings heavy thaw and rain, a large washout threatens to derail trains on the railway track in BC Canada.
Episode 5
Rockslide
The spring thaw brings with it the potential danger of rock slides to the Canadian Pacific Railroad.
Episode 6
Record Breaking Haul
A 210 tonne, 33 meter long urea reactor is loaded onto two specially outfitted flat cars to be moved by rail from Thunder Bay, Ontario to Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan - a distance of 1300 kilometers.
Episode 7
Perfect Storm
46 mins
A grain train dodges rail reconstruction projects and a broken-down locomotive as it heads across the Rocky Mountains; An Ontario Northland passenger train bound for Cochrane from Moosonee.
Episode 8
The Longest Journey
42 mins
The Royal Canadian Pacific passenger train is pulled out of mothballs for a historic cross country journey from Port Moody, British Columbia to the Canadian capital Ottawa, Ontario to celebrate Canada's 150th birthday.
