Extreme Trains

[tomustang]

I think Dave Hinckley from the Daily News said it best..

The problem is that despite watching Bown change a brake shoe and help load a coal car, we don't see enough of the trains themselves. We don't get a sense of their majesty and power, the pull of the locomotive, the glide of the wheels. Too much he-man technical stuff, not enough cool stuff or romance.
Bown also has one failing among his many good qualities as a host. He seems to think he needs to frame a routine daily coal train run as life-or-death drama, warning us every five minutes that if the brakes fail or the coal cars come loose, there could be a terrible wreck.
From his tone, you'd think the odds are somewhere around 50-50 and that it's a miracle any train completes its run at all.

Don't get me wrong, I like his acting on camera, and the show, it just doesn't work for me (and apparently many others)

Every review I have read is very similar.