Coast to Coast with Ludovic Kennedy
The Broadway Limited; The San Francisco Zephyr; The Coast Star-light; there are still famous trains to ride as you cross America.
In the first of seven travel films, LUDOVIC KENNEDY retraces the journey of a fellow Scot, Robert Louis Stevenson, who took an emigrant train from New Jersey to California in 1869. The modern journey is from Pennsylvania Station in New York to Union Station in Los Angeles. Along the line, Kennedy meets characters as diverse as Douglas Fairbanks Jr , Hobo Joe from Sacramento and Rogers Whitaker - aged 83 and generally acknowledged to be the world's greatest railroad buff.
Film cameraman DAVID JACKSON Film editor PATRICK HAGGERTY
Series producer ROGER LAUCHTON Director GERRY TROYNA BBC Manchester