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Hell on Wheels American

South of town’ ;

http://www.calgarysun.com/2014/08/03/alberta-filmed-hell-on-wheels-cements-calgarys-and-provinces-place-in-tv-and-film-production

http://calgaryherald.com/entertainment/local-arts/hell-on-wheels-showrunner-john-wirth-talks-about-season-5

… a couple articles from the 2 local ‘tabloids’ !

The show is getting a bit weird for me. I will see it through but some strange stuff going on as well as I believe it is tickling with some politically charged issues that are distracting.

My wife an I were very excited about this show when it first started. We faithfully watched every week until the end of season two. It was at that point were I could already see the plot making strange wanderings. Yje violence wasn’t the problem either. The largest reason I quit watching however was that buy this time there wasn’t one character I liked anymore. Every one was wishy-washy, and and no core beliefs they stuck too. As full of pride as some of them seem to be, their ideals would change from episode to episode. Just seemed like the writers want to get as much drama in as possible at the expense of every thing else. I need to believe there are a few good people left in the world and this show didn’t convey that.

That video about building Jupiter and #119 was really interesting. I never knew that Ward Kimball was involved with that.

For anyone interested in the REAL story of the Transcontinental Railroad, I highly recommend the book, “Empire Express” by David Haward Bain. It’s balanced, factual, in-depth and portrays events in the historical context of the times. It starts a little slow as it goes into some of the background of early proposals, but soon becomes a real page-turner.

How can Star Wars not be real. I have a full size functional Droid in my entry hall.

Dan Stuettgen said:

How can Star Wars not be real. I have a full size functional Droid in my entry hall.

Dan,

Don’t listen to them. I mean there is an entire documentary series on it with six episodes completed and the seventh due out in December. Of course it real. These people actually think the Egyptians built the pyramids…and they say we are delusional. Everyone knows that the pyramids were a secret rebel base that was abandon after the death of the emperor.

taplines.net/locos/bache/bache.html

Just seeing this (first post) doesn’t look the above loco similar?

What annoys me is the short season. Six or seven episodes and we have to wait a year before it comes back !!

I thought Season 5 was supposed to be it and was prepared to see the end. Then it stopped. Now it wont return until 2016

Manfred Diel said:

taplines.net/locos/bache/bache.html

Just seeing this (first post) doesn’t look the above loco similar?

I can’t open that link

Devon Sinsley said:

I thought Season 5 was supposed to be it and was prepared to see the end. Then it stopped. Now it wont return until 2016

Exactly !! I didn’t even see a notice that the last episode was the season finally !!

Season 5 did not end, they are taking a multi-month break. It will pick up where they left off with Episode 7. The closest I could find for a date is Summer 2016.

OK that makes sense. It was a stupid place to end so that makes more sense.