Train 48

Train 48 was a Canadian improvised soap opera, broadcast on Global Television Network and CH from 2003 until 2005. The series was based on the format of an Australian television program called Going Home. Characters Liz Irwin-Gallo (Krista Sutton) (seasons 1–2, guest season 3) is a marketing expert and a senior executive at TWC, a large pharmaceutical company. After two divorces and a series of unsuccessful relationships, including with fellow passenger Randy, Liz has decided to have a child through in vitro fertilization. The character was shot in the finale of the second season and was in a coma for much of season 3, with Sutton not listed on the main cast, but was a recurring character late in the season with the character recovering from a brain injury induced by the shooting. Johnny McLaughlin (Paul Braunstein) is a "hoser". A handyman and construction foreman, he is often between jobs. He attempted to start his own business making sheds, "Sheds for Brains", before returning to construction and later, employment as a heavy-duty industrial cleaner in a downtown building. A loyal family man, he's been married for 18 years to Charity and has three daughters. He loves hockey, fishing, beer, and his family. Randy Ko (Paul Sun-Hyung Lee) is a mild-mannered engineer and scifi geek. After being dumped by his fiancée, Agnes, he enters a relationship with Liz but they broke up when she decided to have a baby through artificial insemination. Peter (Pete) Subramani (Raoul Bhaneja) is an ambitious stockbroker with questionable ethics and a succession of questionable get rich quick schemes. Lucas West (Andrew Kenneth Martin) works as a producer for a small advertising agency but has ambitions to be a film maker. He comes from a wealthy family that made its money in the oil business in Alberta but is estranged from them. He's had a string of girlfriends, some of whom are married to other men. Brenda Murphy (Lisa Merchant) comes from a small town out west and works as a clerical worker in downtown Toronto at Dubbin & Wallace, an insurance company. She's "forty-something", and has worked in the same department for 16 years. Her husband, Doug, died in a bicycle accident in August 2003. She has three children. A church-goer, Brenda means well but has traditional views which often get her into trouble with the other passengers, as does her love of gossip.