1931 Local Chapter ・ Express Chapter - Grand Punk Railroad

1931 Local Chapter • Express Chapter - Grand Punk Railroad (バッカーノ！ 1931 鈍行編・特急編 The Grand Punk Railroad 」) is a two-disc audio drama which retells the events of the novels 1931 The Grand Punk Railroad: Local and 1931 The Grand Punk Railroad: Express.

The contents of the CDs were originally broadcast as a radio drama from October to November 2005, made possible by the Radio Dengeki Grand Prize. The drama's cast largely differs to the cast of the later anime adaptation, and includes characters who were not present in the anime.

Partial Cast List
Actors who went on to reprise their roles for the 2007 anime adaptation are marked with an asterisk (*). Actors whose characters do not appear in the 2007 anime adaptation are marked with two asterisks (**).
 * Norio Wakamoto as Gustav St. Germain *
 * Takeshi Aono as "Gray Man" **
 * Masakazu Morita as The Conductor *
 * Masaya Onosaka as Isaac Dian *
 * Rumi Kasahara as Miria Harvent
 * Daisuke Sakaguchi as Jacuzzi Splot *
 * Akemi Sato as Nice Holystone
 * Tetsu Inada as Donny
 * Ryōtarō Okiayu as Ladd Russo
 * Keiji Hirai as Placido Russo
 * Yuko Sumitomo as Lua Klein
 * Susumu Chiba as Goose Perkins
 * Keiichirō Yamamoto as Nader Schasschule **
 * Mai Aizawa as Chané Laforet
 * Akemi Kanda as Czeslaw Meyer *

Disc 1
The first disc retells the events of the second Baccano! volume, 1931 The Grand Punk Railroad: Local. The bonus twentieth track "Bow Wow: Theatrical Announcement!" is an advertisement for Ryohgo Narita's work Etsusa Bridge.

Disc 2
The second disc retells the events of the third Baccano! volume, 1931 The Grand Punk Railroad: Express. The sixteenth bonus track "Vamp!: Theatrical Announcement!" is an advertisement for Narita's work Vamp!.

Additional Content
Novella: Accompanying the discs is a short omake novel titled ''Baccano! 1931? Forwarding Arc'' (『バッカーノ！ 1931？ 回送編』). The novel shows how Graham Specter and Jacuzzi Splot met, and revisits the reunion of Claire Stanfield and Chané Laforet with never-before-seen information not included on page 152 of the original work.

Specialty Playing cards: Twenty-six cards featuring illustrations of Baccano! characters as drawn by Enami Katsumi (thirteen men and thirteen women) are included in the product, as are special Joker cards.

Jacket Sleeve: The product itself is encased in a special double-sided jacket, the art of which was also drawn by Enami.

Mail Order Benefit
For a limited time, the mail order edition of the product also included a two-sided poster featuring a 'character correlation' diagram on one side and the cover of the drama CD box on the back. The diagram charted the relationships between more than a hundred characters of the novels, and is currently difficult to obtain.