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.

When the biggest blizzard to hit Boston since 1935 leaves a recently-arrived young refugee stranded in the cold, he boards a mysterious train and meets a strange, ghostly man.

A father and son need to get home by Christmas Eve dinner, but a late departure from the Cascade Mountains and a closed road make the trip home difficult and dangerous.

When a family finds a child in their yard buried in snow and suffering from frostbite, they try to warm him up to save his life. The child eventually awakes and tells them that his family is in danger, and so two men and a boy venture out to save their neighbors, if they can make it through the deep snow without freezing.

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

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.

A blizzard strikes a tiny Canadian town of Dene and Inuit, trapping the locals with their unexpected guest - and the violent Wendigo spirit possessing him.

A hardworking middle-manager of the nineteenth century railroad trade helps his boss seek revenge against their old company after the two are fired. While his coworkers question his unconventional management choices, he proves himself to be a skilled leader.

In a future Boston, a passenger train disappears from a subway system so complex the system creates a second dimension. Government officials work to retrieve the missing car, but struggle to solve the impossible mathematic equations the system created.

After he loses his mother, a father feels unmoored and lashes out at his family as the winter solstice arrives.