The Century Builders

In a thriving Midwestern city, THE RAILROAD dictates every way of life, and foreman LAWRENCE SULLIVAN is charged with keeping hundreds of employees and their trains moving around the clock. Amid the menace of strikes, breakdowns, and estrangement from his family and employees, Sullivan’s railroad shop is threatened with closure – and he must fight to keep the trains running, starve off cutbacks, and come up with a plan to keep the town alive. This struggle emerges in an industrial, exuberant, and hopeful post-war country, where citizens are hungry for the newly-minted American dream but unaware of a simmering battle on the homefront. This series asks, “if not all changes is progress, what do we lose in transition and who gets left behind?” THE CENTURY BUILDERS will unravel the answer.