Episodes

Episode 1

The Alaska Railroad is the only lifeline for remote settlers. Rail crews battle brutal conditions to clear an avalanche to deliver supplies off-grid

Episode 2

Roadmaster Hugh Evans races to clear the tracks and get the passenger train through.

Episode 3

A devastating snowstorm blocks the Railroad

Episode 4

A car crash threatens to shut down the Alaskan Railroad – Alaska’s lifeline

Episode 5

Jobs are lost after Brakemen Danny and Animal deliver a $10 million cargo

Episode 6

The big Spring thaw arrives awakening Alaska’s bears from winter hibernation.

Episode 5

Twenty-nine jobs are lost after Brakemen Danny Forsman and Lynn ‘Anima’ Reitz race to Anchorage with $10 million of drill pipe, for a new oil-mining customer. Roadmaster Bruce Gough must shoot down a twenty-ton icicle before it hits a train and Hugh Evans finds a broken rail switch that threatens to derail a train and stop medical supplies getting through to elderly Offgridder’s Clyde and Mary Lovel. 

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Series Producer
Executive Producers
Executive Editor
Editor
for Destination America, Discovery UK