Trivia The train on the TV show Hell on Wheels

Old news.  From 2012:

Rusty

I love the show, and I love trains, but I don't love the show for the trains.  

Ben

All news to me, I haven't seen the show. It appears they did a pretty good job of making the trains look authentic.

They've sure had me fooled through all the seasons. But knowing it's all faked doesn't surprise me and won't keep me from enjoying the show.

When they get to the inevitable Promontory Summit episode, I hope they use locomotives that look like the Jupiter and the #119, rather than the anonymous dirty wooden locomotives that they have used thus far. However, my wife could care less....she just watches it for Cullen Bohannon. 

I knew that the locos were fake, and I could tell that the "fakery" was a combination of full-scale models and CGI.  Still, I think that is far more well-done per railroading - not just the equipment - than any other show or movie that I have seen. Ever.

In fact, I avoid "railroad movies/shows", as they are inevitably dismal in the RR sense, and almost always just bad productions that are boring in general.

HoW is the only exception to that with which I am familiar. Great models - last week's episode even got the slow-speed steam emission/chuffing correct - a big MTH smoke unit or some CGI I know not, but it worked.

And just how much more abuse and injury can Cullen Bohannon endure? At least the Swede ("But I am from Norway...") is gone. Or is he...?

The Swede has come back from a hanging before. In fact, I think I see him in this photograph. 

The last episode of the current season is really quite the cliff hanger.  It better be picked up for another season.  This one was only seven episodes.

I don't like to watch the behind the scenes shows as they detract from the magic for me.

Alan

I believe these are the final episodes. At least that's what the promo says.

  "How" in film, has fascinated me since it was explained to me that TV wasn't always "live"even when it looked that way. I think a western gunfight death got me yelling to call the cops  Lon Chaney Sr, and King Kong, and Flash Gordon production methods ate up a good chunk of time as a youth. It held more appeal than the B-movie effects of most modern productions.  Star Wars! I had  to know how. Mixing tech is the best and the most fun. Full CGI looks great!...but it is "keyboard work", not of any real interest to me anymore. Often, I just think ohhh aahhh..pretty cartoon .

   I've yet to see the show, and TV drama definitely isn't my favorite format, so I'm likely to not bother....No biggie. Zombies can't keep me from turning the drama off either. The last 2 months, I've only watched the news a few times, "Gran Torino",  Sat. Night Live once, South Park once, and two episodes of Thomas the Train

I didn't know this show existed until Netflix. There are more than 7 episodes this season as the one I watched last week was new.

I discovered this on Netflix last week when I ran out of "Turn" episodes to watch.  Better they make good period models than use later locos dressed up with diamond stacks.

Jon  

I believe that there are two episodes left in the series. 

jay jay posted:

I believe that there are two episodes left in the series. 

Episode 11 (Gambit) of 14 aired last night, so there are still 3 episodes left; July 9, 16, and 23.

RRaddict2 posted:

I didn't know this show existed until Netflix. There are more than 7 episodes this season as the one I watched last week was new.

The 5th and final season has 14 episodes split into 2 half-seasons of 7 episodes each, the finale will air July 23.