AMC’s Western ‘Hell on Wheels’: First Look (Video)

AMC’s latest foray into original programming promises a gritty tale of vengeance and choo-choo trains

AMC is taking Horace Greeley's advice and going west with its upcoming series "Hell on Wheels."

Set to go into production on May 16, the series — which is slated to premiere in the fourth quarter of 2011 — stars Anson Mount ("Straw Dogs") as a former confederate soldier "whose quest for vengeance has led him to the Union Pacific Railroad's western construction of the first Transcontinental Railroad."

Get on board by taking an early sneak peek in the video below.

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