About Hell on Wheels
Hell on Wheels is a action & adventure, drama, western series that first aired in 2011 exploring themes of gunslinger, frontier, train, period drama, historical, railroad. Created by John Wirth, it stars Anson Mount, Colm Meaney, Robin McLeavy. 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.