Plot
The epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on Cullen Bohannon, a Confederate soldier who sets out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who killed his wife. His journey takes him west to Hell on Wheels, a dangerous, raucous, lawless melting pot of a town that travels with and services the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, an engineering feat unprecedented for its time.
Cast
as Cullen Bohannan
as Thomas 'Doc' Durant
as Eva
as The Swede
as Mickey McGinnes
as Collis Huntington
as Mei
as Chang
Creator
Network
Status
Ended
First Aired Date
November 6, 2011
Last Aired Date
July 23, 2016
Production Companies
Endemol USA
Entertainment One
Nomadic Pictures
Type
Scripted
Number of Season
5
Number of Episodes
57
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Season 5
2015|14 Episodes
Cullen Bohannon finds himself a stranger in a strange land: Truckee, California. Home to the headquarters of the Central Pacific railroad, this rough mountain railroad town teems with thousands of Chinese workers who are foreign in language, culture and traditions. While grappling with the challenges of corralling his new workforce, Cullen leads the Central Pacific’s herculean effort to tunnel through the Sierra Nevada mountains, sometimes achieving only inches a day in the race to complete America’s first Transcontinental Railroad.
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