This film is the result of a project called The Subway Film Series, commissioned by the Bowery Poetry Club of New York. Six New York filmmakers were asked to make films in order to promote the launch of the book Token Entry, an anthology of subway poems edited by Gerry LaFemina. Each of the six films was based on a respective poem from the anthology. This film was based on a pre-existing poem by Cheryl Dumesnil, also titled "Q To the 6 Train." The entire poem appears within the film, including its epitaph by Sophocles.
Premiered in September of 2011 to commemorate the ten year anniversary of the September 11th attacks.
The three roles in the script were written specifically for Natalie Wetta, Christopher Kardos, and Cate Weinberg. Weinberg was the only one able to ultimately appear in the film.
The Subway Film Series, curated by filmmaker Jack Feldstein, eventually premiered in March 2012 as part of The Queens World Film Festival. It was the first time that all six of the films were screened together. Q to the 6 Train (2011) was the fifth film screened in the block.
Poet Cheryl Dumesnil was extremely supportive of the project and with the filmmakers adding an original story and taking her poem in a new direction. She has called the final film "one of the nicest surprises of my writing career."