New Horizons

Filmed in 1987, this documentary chronicles the journey of Via Rail's The Canadian as it makes its way across Canada.

A short documentary about the work of railwaymen and life on the railway.

This 1996 documentary takes a nostalgic ride through history to present the experiences of Black sleeping-car porters who worked on Canada's railways...

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...

A study on the uninhabited area of the old railway workers’ district of the village of Setil. The limits in the construction of their history...

This is the incredible story of the men and equipment that battle the long cold winter months against the impossible odds to keep this historic...

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

Each year, hundreds of Central American migrants try to cross the northern border of Mexico on the freight train known as the Beast. That trip is...

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

London to Brighton in Four Minutes is a short film produced by the BBC Film Unit. The camera was manually undercranked to produce a 'fast-motion'...

An Amtrak train pulls out of Penn Station in New York City on a cold, sunny February morning. The train moves forward as the landscape...