Each episode is 15 minutes long and includes commercials for the toy manufacturer A. C. Gilbert Company.
[1] Experienced railroad workers explained their job duties, and the work was illustrated by showing A.C. Gilbert's American Flyer model train layouts created for the series.
[2] The series was touted as "honoring heroes of the railroading business" and presenting dramatic stories.
[3] One episode told of a locomotive fireman during a 1904 Baltimore Fire;[4] another episode told of a brain surgeon riding on a special train over a flood-weakened roadbed in order to get to a young boy in need of life-saving surgery.
[5] Seven 1949 kinescoped episodes of the series exist at the Library of Congress in the J. Fred and Leslie W. MacDonald Collection.