09-01-2013, 01:03 AM
Hell on Wheels depicts the lives and struggles around building the Union Pacific Railroad. While it's not a historical series, it does have some historic characters (like Thomas Durant) and provides a great feel for what it would have been like to build a railroad across a hostile frontier. I love the series. It plays on AMC, and Netflix picks it up.
Greg Amer
The Industrial Lead
The Industrial Lead