Good news in the movies, a making of railroads in Idaho in the 1920s, from the perspective of one the guys building the railroad, and it has log cabins, fire towers, steam locomotives, and the beauty of the North woods forest

Train Dreams is the portrait of Robert Grainier, a logger and railroad worker who leads a life of unexpected depth and beauty in the rapidly changing America of the early 20th Century. A life of hermitage until he marries and has a daughter, only to lose both wife and child in a forest fire, and sink into isolation again.

Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainer struggles to make sense of this strange new world. As his story unfolds, we witness both his shocking personal defeats and the radical changes that transform America in his lifetime.

Grainier was born in 1886 in Utah or Canada. In 1893, he arrived on the Great Northern Railway as an orphan in Fry, Idaho, and was adopted by a family.

In summer 1917, Grainier stops in Meadow Creek and buys a bottle of sarsaparilla for his wife, Gladys, and their four-month-old daughter, Kate. 

In 1920, he leaves for northwestern Washington to help repair the Robinson Gorge Bridge. He also cuts and transports timber. He meets fellow worker Arn Peeples, a fearless but superstitious old man who dangerously excavates tunnels with dynamite. 

The novella won an O. Henry Award in 2003. It also won the 2002 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction. It was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

It's a sad story, here's a summary of the whole thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_Dreams#Critical_assessment

Train Dreams is adapted from Denis Johnson’s acclaimed 2002 short story, it debuted at Sundance, and Netflix acquired the movie and it will hit theaters November 7 before bowing on the streamer on November 21.