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September 2020
Mechanics, construction crews and train drivers battle to sustain a 500-mile long railroad in Alaska through extreme weather.
Mechanics, construction crews and train drivers battle to sustain a 500-mile long railroad in Alaska through extreme weather.
August 2020
Mechanics, construction crews and train drivers battle to sustain a 500-mile long railroad in Alaska through extreme weather.
Spring brings new challenges for the off-gridders as they scramble to repair their cabins. Plus, the freight team prepares their most dangerous load of the year.
Rising temperatures cause a new set of problems, threatening lives on and off the rails; a couple travel to an abandoned cabin; a couple search for an emergency vehicle.
July 2020
Offgrid, Josh and Annie urgently need to move their cabin away from a rapidly rising river. On the railroad, an avalanche threatens to derail a mile and a half train.
June 2020
300 miles south of the Arctic Circle, Cathy and Larry battle freezing temperatures which threaten to leave them without a crucial supply of fresh water.
A homesteader races to airlift his stranded snow machine out of the frozen tundra; disaster strikes when a couple spends their first winter alone in the wilderness.
The freight crew struggles to make a delivery to a salvage crew that is stranded in the wilderness; Jim James returns from town with a surprise for his wife.
A broken rail switch threatens to derail a train and stop crucial medical supplies from getting to homesteaders, and a twenty-ton icicle must be shot down before it hits a train.
May 2020
Snowstorm blocks Alaska's lifeline forcing Danny and Animal to bring out a 67 tonne snowplough, and Hugh must make sure the passenger train makes it home.
An avalanche delays brakemen Danny Forsman and Lynn 'Animal' Reitz, and road master Hugh Evans battles freezing temperatures.
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