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Extreme Trains is a television program on the History Channel that describes the daily operations of railroads in the United States, from coal trains to passenger trains and famous routes. It is hosted by Matt Bown, a train conductor for Pan Am Railways in Maine, whose interest is railways and the technology of them.
Real-life train conductor Matt Bown hosts this sweeping look at the inner working of locomotives that haul huge loads across the country, shaping history in the process.
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Nov 11, 2008 · Matt rides the busiest freight line anywhere, Union Pacific's Omaha to Sacramento — on a route that crosses the world's longest rail causeway, though the world's largest rail yard and over the fearsome Donner Pass, where Matt and the train crews must free the tracks from huge blocks of ice.
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Jul 14, 2009 · Matt Bown, host of the hit show Extreme Trains, joined the BLMA Models crew at the National Train Show in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Nov 11, 2008 · Matt Bown, a train conductor in central Maine, has a dream: to ride the biggest, fastest, most awesome locomotives in America. At least that’s what he tells us in the introduction to “Extreme...
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Real-life train conductor Matt Bown hosts this sweeping look at the inner working of locomotives that haul huge loads across the country, shaping history in the process.
Nov 11, 2008 · It is hosted by Matt Bown, a train conductor for Pan Am Railways in Maine, whose interest is railways and the technology of them, in which Matt is living his lifelong dream. The series was first aired in the United States on November 11, 2008 and ran until December 30, 2008.
