The Railroad Killer is an American live-action/computer animated thriller drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis. The film was released in 2006 by Touchstone Pictures, Paramount Pictures, and Paramount Vantage and was produced by Touchstone Feature Animation, Romite, Nickelodeon Movies, MTV Films, ImageMovers and Amblin Entertainment.
the cast has live actors for acting and voice actors for locomotives. in the story, Sheriff Golden Spike is a railroad investigator & leader in New York City who works with living trains. At midnight, the conductors are killed by two criminals (known as "railroad killers") named Ángel Maturino Reséndiz & Richard Griener, with their henchmen, the Frieghthoppers. The locomotives have also been kidnapped, and the railroad killers plan on brainwashing them for evildoing or scrapping them. Now, Spike, with a gang of other people, must save the locomotives and find new conductors by entering a different world.