An individual on a train watches the throngs of people commuting, including a young couple that has been severely affected by the Great Depression.

During a violent snowstorm in Iowa, a train carrying a traveling salesman, a railroad worker, and a family of five takes a desperate detour to Carthage. When the passengers arrive, the station is a mess and the agent is dead, but they must work together to welcome a new life amidst the deathly circumstances.

A man must plan an escape when he finds himself stuck at a train station ends up trapped in a cult-like existence with no way out.

A poor man stows away on a train. While riding, another man joins and claims to be carrying a large amount of money. Despite his jealously, the poor man decides to help this strange man freeload on the train.

A train conductor serves his community faithfully for fifty years and wins the hearts of the people along his track.

A manager at a railroad electrifying company reluctantly takes on a man who is being abused by his wife, allowing him to try his best at the job and earn some money. Unfortunately, the man’s hard work is soon eclipsed by his wife’s brutality.

Stuck on a train ride with his overbearing wife, a stifled husband questions a fellow passenger about the meaning of love.

When an earless woman fails to show up at the train station on Walter Mason’s regular 5:22 p.m. commute from MIT to his home in rural Massachusetts, Mason begins to question the routines that dictate his life.

On a train in 20th century London, a middle-aged stranger tells a man about a series of strangely realistic dreams he had depicting a horrific world war that he could have prevented.

A bus filled with passengers from different walks of life begins its long journey. Everyone has different problems assailing their otherwise ordinary lives, but as the bus rolls along, these issues begin to be resolved for each through the unwitting actions of the others.