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Hell on Wheels

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AMC Ended Drama Action Western

5 Seasons · 57 Episodes · Premiered January 11, 1999 · Ended July 23, 2016

Hell on Wheels is an American Western television series about the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad across the United States. The series follows the Union Pacific Railroad and its surveyors, laborers, prostitutes, mercenaries, and others who lived, worked and died in the mobile encampment called "Hell on Wheels" that followed the railhead west across the Great Plains. In particular, the story focuses on Cullen Bohannon, a former Confederate soldier who, while working as foreman and chief engineer on the railroad, initially attempts to track down the Union soldiers who murdered his wife and young son during the American Civil War.

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Anson Mount
Anson Mount as Cullen Bohannon
Colm Meaney
Colm Meaney as Thomas "Doc" Durant
Phil Burke
Phil Burke as Mickey McGinnes
Robin McLeavy
Robin McLeavy as Eva
Common
Common as Elam Ferguson
Ben Esler
Ben Esler as Sean McGinnes
Christopher Heyerdahl
Christopher Heyerdahl as Thor Gunderson / The Swede
Dohn Norwood
Dohn Norwood as Psalms
Kasha Kropinski
Kasha Kropinski as Ruth
Dominique McElligott
Dominique McElligott as Lily Bell
Eddie Spears
Eddie Spears as Joseph Black Moon
Tom Noonan
Tom Noonan as Reverend Nathaniel Cole
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