<P> Hell on Wheels is an American Western television series about the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad across the United States . The series , which featured Anson Mount , Colm Meaney , Common , and Dominique McElligott , chronicled the Union Pacific Railroad and its laborers , mercenaries , prostitutes , surveyors , 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 focused on Cullen Bohannon ( Mount ) , a former Confederate soldier who , while working as foreman and chief engineer on the railroad , initially attempted to track down the Union soldiers who murdered his wife and young son during the American Civil War . The series , which broadcast in the United States and Canada on the cable channel AMC , aired from November 6 , 2011 to July 23 , 2016 . </P>
<P> Hell on Wheels is an American Western television series about the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad across the United States . The series , which featured Anson Mount , Colm Meaney , Common , and Dominique McElligott , chronicled the Union Pacific Railroad and its laborers , mercenaries , prostitutes , surveyors , 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 focused on Cullen Bohannon ( Mount ) , a former Confederate soldier who , while working as foreman and chief engineer on the railroad , initially attempted to track down the Union soldiers who murdered his wife and young son during the American Civil War . The series , which broadcast in the United States and Canada on the cable channel AMC , aired from November 6 , 2011 to July 23 , 2016 . </P>
where is hell on wheels supposed to take place
where is hell on wheels supposed to take place
in the mobile encampment , called `` Hell on Wheels '' , that followed the railhead west across the Great Plains
in the mobile encampment , called `` Hell on Wheels '' , that followed the railhead west across the Great Plains