Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece

ChanBot i must have seen a different film!!

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

spostma-297-931078 I really enjoy the way these people live, and the importance of the train in their lives. I enjoy seeing all the problems involved in keeping the railroad running and how the railroad personnel deals with them. I didn't, however, realize how unique this train is, until reading these reviews. Why didn't I learn that from the program? There is so much that could be included and expanded upon, but instead of doing that, it's always urgent to get the job finished so the train can get through. Amazing how nothing ever happens until there's a train about to hit the area. Why not turn it into an educational documentary instead of a reality show, so we can learn about the train and its people? Last night, a family was expecting a shipment of soil & plants, so they had to quickly get the support holes dug in the frozen ground. Why didn't they do this last fall, or at least last week? I'm so fed up with all the hype, I swear I'm going to quit watching it, but I want to know whether Jim gets his new house built, and what about the couple who had the baby last year? PLEASE change this program instead of having it canceled because no one watches it!!!

fatlizz On the one hand I would just as soon remove it from my record list, on the other hand the subject matter, scenery and characters keep dragging me back season after season.I might be a faithful watcher, but I'm getting really tired of being subjected to editing that is sloppy and obviously forced in an attempt to create drama where none exists, nor is needed.To be fair this is a trait shared among most 'reality' shows, but come on! Just how many times do we have to sit through a train 'bearing down' on a repair crew or broken-down piece of equipment only to find the blockage is cleared in the nick of time!And on the sloppy side of editing, we loyal viewers are repeatedly subjected to panoramic shots of trains that are clearly not part of the current narrative. A fact glaringly obvious when the number of engines on the trains don't match and/or the load is different.All of this would be much easier to swallow if I didn't have to listen to the far from dulcet tones of narrator Demetri Goritsas. I'm not sure who thought this stage actor would make a good television narrator but they didn't consult with me first!!His near-shouting style of speech and uncomfortably close to fingernails on a chalkboard voice might work when trying to project from the stage all the way to the rear row of a 1000 seat theater, but on the small screen it's just annoying!Yet here I am, faithfully subjecting myself to the first episode of the third season anyway. . .

Josh Strickland The Alaskan imagery and off-grid way of life is fascinating. I do agree with the notion that each episode is like the next and it's a little over-dramatic to be a "reality" show, but conceptually, it's great. I love watching and I watch this show more than other Alaska- based shows because of the railroad aspect. I'm hoping for another season, and would love to see the show expand on that, including historical looks and scenery that most people would never otherwise see.More Railroad-based programming would be equally as fascinating.

moonrazer-487-184393 OK full disclosure here. I like trains, earlier this week I was shopping for a caboose for the back yard. I'm afraid the house management is going to object and we haven't even gotten to the HOA despite my plan to letter it for our subdivision.Anyway on to the show. If it's running on rails it's got my attention so this show caught my attention the first time I caught it channel surfing.This one those myriad reality shows that shows mundane jobs and hypes everything to the point that you would think that life on this planet would cease as we know it if they somehow failed to complete the task that they do five days a week.The Alaska Railroad is a 500 mile line that serves the interior of Alaska, starting in Seward Alaska. It's owned by the State of Alaska and has no land connections to any other railroads. The railroad is unique in that it has both freight and passenger operations.A typical episode breaks down in several smaller stories with the railroad either as a back drop or as the subject itself. Off griders comprise a lot of the stories. Off griders are people that live off the grid roughing it the Alaskan wilderness usually after a trip to Alaska and giving up everything to move there. (No thanks, I'll take a beach, anywhere without icebergs) With the off griders usually some critical item has to come by train. A recent episode had off griders working to put a roof on a house before a snowstorm. Another story was about another group of off griders moving a house about the size of decent tree house out of the path of rising river. All of these depended on the railroad to get them supplies in the most dramatic manner imaginable. I think Thomas does it better but the Island of Sodor cant beat Alaska for scenery.Meanwhile on the railroad, crews were dealing with their own troubles. One crew was pulling a train with supplies vital to a mining operation and was concerned with getting through a tunnel. (tape measures anyone?) and having enough horsepower in their cheeky little locomotives to get over the highest park of the railroad. (There are formulas for this, and that's why they sometimes double head the engines on Thomas the Tank Engine.) One of the more interesting jobs and dramatic is snow clearing. The railroad employs a number of tactics to deal with this. In the last episode they were using a military surplus cannon(I got to get me one of those, although the HOA is not going to like it.) to trigger controlled avalanches.If after years of mind numbing reality TV you hear a narrator when you're going to grocery store or plunging a toilet, then this will keep you staring blankly at your television screen for an hour. If trains are your thing, then you'll enjoy the photography, it very well done. If you suspend reality to some degree you may even enjoy the operations. This might be better with less stories offered and done in a half hour as opposed the one hour format it's in now.