The Van Dorn Detective Agency assigns Isaac Bell, a private investigator, to a case that will reveal whether a brilliant American battleship gun designer's death was a suicide or murder, but Bell uncovers a plot set to destroy the great minds of America that are somehow connected to a secret project known as Hull 44.

Investigating a series of attacks on the Southern Pacific Railroad's Cascades express lines, Detective Bell learns of the existence of an elusive saboteur who recruits and murders his own accomplices while engineering schemes of maximum havoc.

After a devastating fire at an insane asylum in California, Hook Runyon has been put in charge of security for a train that is to transport the survivors, alongside the head of the asylum, Dr. Baldwin, the attending doctor, taciturn Dr. Helms, and a self-sacrificing nurse named Andrea, to a new location in Oklahoma. Hook hires a motley crew of WW II veterans to help, and they set out for the new destination. But things go awry on the Insane Train,...

Two trains race each other on the way to Chicago.

When a new speedy train challenges Huff and Puff to a race, the caboose and engine must find out if slow and steady can win the race.

A train passenger becomes subject to a series of nightmarish stories told by a mysterious stranger who demands a terrible price to make the stories end.

Young Lemony Snicket investigates when the nightly train that goes to the city is instead redirected to a mysterious alternate location.

The Boxcar Children are spending the summer traveling on a train, in their own caboose which has a mysterious history.

A young boy imagines what it would be like to drive a train and take his little brother along for the ride.

When the friends he has made on the new railroad line give Engineer Ari things to help build and decorate a sukkah in his courtyard, he is sad that they cannot come and enjoy it with him.