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We have Cool Cars, Cool Tanks, Cool Planes, Cool Starships, Cool Boats... it's time for Cool Trains. Well, lots of these are actually only Cool Locomotives — including the page image — but hey, let's not split hairs. Others have a locomotive and cars. Some Cool Trains for wealthy elites have luxurious cabins with lounges, a dining car, and a theater. The Big Bad may use their train as a Base on Wheels. Some are armored trains, with the locomotive and cars having thick plate armor on the sides, a detachment of soldiers inside, and firing ports bristling with guns. Primarily a feature of Steampunk settings, but also seen in The Western (as the mobile base for the Robber Baron) and in stories about the ultra-rich, the Cool Train may only be able to run on rails — and generally is not under the control of the traveling character — but that doesn't stop it from being loaded with luxurious features and technological gadgets or just being generally awesome. Just ask a Rail Enthusiast. These trains has a particular tendencie to err towards the more whimsisical side of things, due to trains overtime being seen more as a fun novelty than a serious form of transport. Both civilian luxury trains and heavily-armed armored trains are Truth in Television, at least for stories set in the 1800s or early-to-mid 1900s. After air travel became more affordable, flying became the preferred way to travel luxuriously or to project military force. A big drawback of armored trains is that no matter how thick their metal plating and no matter how many gatling guns are mounted on them, a small band of La Résistance fighters can sabotage the rails with a sack of dynamite and render them useless. Afterlife Expresses can also be Cool Trains, even if they aren't the hippest trip in America. Compare Steam Never Dies. Contrast Just Train Wrong. Not to be confused with The Cole Train, or Radical Train. Examples |
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The Titfield Thunderbolt is a film set on a British branch line features several cool trains. The first is a generally normal-looking tank engine, which later enjoys a Moment of Awesome when the Vicar uses it to joust against a steamroller parked on a level crossing. The villains later derail this engine on the eve of an inspection by British Railways. Desperate for a new engine, the villagers raid the local museum and press the titular Thunderbolt into service for the inspection. It should be noted that Lion, the engine that played Thunderbolt, was well over 100 years old at the time the film was made. | |
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Fear Equation takes place entirely in the cabin of one of these, with you giving orders to the passengers from within. | |
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Transarctica, one of several monster steam trains connecting the future Ice Age world. You and your people live on board, carrying barracks, gardens, workshops, rocket platforms and anything else you need to bring back the sunshine. Described in more detail here. In fact, the box art for the game was "borrowed" from another example; a painting by Rodney Matthews depicting an epic-looking giant train from another world. |
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In Sunless Skies, you brave the High Wilderness in a locomotive, and there are quite a few models to pick from. All of them capable of ferrying people and cargo across the stars, and all of them heavily armed. | |
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Nancy Drew: Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon is set in one. | |
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The missile train from GoldenEye. | |
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The Forever Train on Macbeth from Star Fox 64 is a GIANT futuristic example, which you destroy car-by-car until there's nothing left but the engine. Which you then crash into a factory. | |
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The second half of the anime adaptation for Lord El-Melloi II Case Files takes place on the Mystic Eyes Collection Train, Rail Zeppelin. It's a mobile auction house for mages to buy and sell eyes with special abilities which is normally accessible by invitation only, plus it uses leylines as it's rails. So, it's a cool train where the passengers tend to be as interesting as the train itself. | |
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Dark Chronicle has two cool trains, the Zeerust time-travelling Ixion and the Steampunk-ish Blackstone One. | |
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Another Russian example - the big red armored war train in Doctor Zhivago. link to pictures here | |
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In The Adventures of Shan Shan, the up train really does go up. | |
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Digimon: Locomon, seen here, is a Digimon that is itself a cool train. It also evolves into the even cooler and decidedly more badass GranLocomon. And then there's the Trailmon, which come in several varieties and balance on one rail like a bicycle! |
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In The Lone Ranger for the NES, Butch Cavendish uses a steam locomotive loaded with traps against you for the final boss fight. | |
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In Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL, Anna Kozuki uses a deck full of train monsters, which tend to be extremely huge and powerful. | |
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The New York Central's Twentieth Century Limited in North By Northwest. | |
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Iron Girder in Raising Steam, the first steam locomotive on Discworld, and continually improved by her creator, until she becomes an incredibly powerful, micromail-infused behemoth and the goddess of the railway. | |
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Mega Robo Bros has the Central Skyline, a wheel-less train that runs through "Grav Tubes" in the air. In book 1, Robot 23 hacks one so the doors open while it's still moving, and disables the Grav Tube ahead. Luckily for them all, Alex and Freddy save the day. | |
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The mascot for Soul Train | |
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Vampire Savior had a level called Iron Horse, Iron Terror, which was a demonic train. | |
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Einhänder's second level revolves around trying to stop a train delivering a giant arms shipment between cities. It's filled to the brim with turrets and chicken walkers, carries a lobster-motorbike thing, and the front section is a giant, multi-armed mech. | |
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Ressha Sentai ToQger makes trains the primary series theme - the mecha are trains, the weapons are train-themed (with things like a rail sword, signal hammer and bridge claw), everything is about trains. To give an example of how far this series takes it, the franchise usually has the Transformation Trinkets announce cool phrases on morphing, but ToQger's is "Transformation commencing! Please stand behind the white line!" - and it summons a white line for the monsters to stand behind. | |
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Subverted in the classic The Simpsons episode "Marge vs. the Monorail". The titular monorail was anything but cool, being a deathtrap sold to the town by a huckster. Not like the Escalator to Nowhere. But hey, at least there was a cool song about it. |
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Night on the Galactic Railroad is a 1927 children's novel by Kenji Miyazawa that involved a "cool train" of sorts as a metaphor for the afterlife. It has been made into an aimated movie (that portrayed the main characters as cats/), and several stage plays. In fact, the original Japanese title ("Ginga Tetsudou no Yoru") was the inspiration behind the Japanese title of Leiji Matsumoto's manga ("Ginga Tetsudou 999") which involved a cool 'space train. | |
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Thomas & Friends is made of this trope. Almost every character is a Cool Train. | |
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Battlefield 1 features armored trains on several maps, complete with artillery guns, antiaircraft cannons, and a cool black paintjob. | |
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An episode of the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero cartoon featured the Cobra Bullet, a bullet train Cobra used to take away the gold they stole from Fort Knox. | |
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MechRunner features one that runs on pit-like tracks. The XP-41 needs to attack it. | |
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Southern Railway 4501 in the Jimmy Stewart film Fools' Parade. | |
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One of the multiplayer maps in Fistful of Frags is a western outpost with a train running through the middle in either direction, but only at running speed. What makes the train cool is the Inexplicable Treasure Chest it carries, containing some of the most powerful weapons available. | |
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One episode of Justice League has the team slip into an alternate-universe Fascist dictatorship led by Vandal Savage. Surveillance is everywhere on the streets, so local freedom-fighting Batman uses a rocket-powered subway car to get around. | |
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Donkey Kong Country Returns has the Mole Train, a boss that has a giant drill on the front of it. | |
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Borderlands 2 features a levitating, probably automated network of Hyperion-owned trains. The trains roar along at high speeds (in two areas of the game it's possible to get enemies hit by passing trains) and use a system that looks like a maglev rail - sometimes switching from a rail below the cars to one beside it in mid-transit, briefly going airborne to do it. | |
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Half-Life 2 gives us the Razor Train: a fleet of tall, black, intimidating diesel engines who haul prisoners and soldiers. One of them comes at you at high speed, at Bridge Point. Want to try ramming into it? Go ahead, watch what happens to your car. | |
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Mark Greaney's Red Metal has the Russians build 3 trains dubbed "Red Blizzard (1-3)" to support their invasion of Europe. In addition to a command center, the trains carry supplies, vehicles, troops, fuel, and Anti-Air weaponry to ensure control of the battlespace. | |
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The Hunger Games: The maglev that takes Katniss and Peeta from District 12 to Capitol. Unlike modern-day maglevs, this one hovers high above the tracks and appears to be flying on its own. It's also equipped with all the amenities for the tributes and their retinue. | |
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In the Transport Tycoon series (and in similar games such as Industry Giant), for their balanced combination of speed and capacity, you can't beat trains (or monorails, or maglevs, depending on the year). | |
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Sean McMullen's Greatwinter Trilogy features trains powered by wind turbines and trains powered by passengers and employed navvies pedaling. Passengers are ranked according to how much they pedal, and those who pedal most get credits towards their fare and priority use of the railside facilities. | |
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Alice: Madness Returns has the Infernal Train, which is basically a Gothic cathedral on wheels. It has the same significance and opposing symbolism as the omnipresent tentacles in the prequel, as noted more than once in-universe. It's huge, sweeping through your mindscape, and attempting to destroy your bearings and leave you a helpless passenger onboard rather than root you down in inescapable depression and dementia. |
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Astrotrain from Transformers: Generation 1, which also transformed into a space shuttle. Transformers: ★Headmasters introduced the Trainbots, a group of Transformers who took the forms of Japanese high-speed trains and could combine into one. There was also a little known train playset that had an engine that turned into a jet, one car that turned into a mobile scout station, and another that carried a big weapon. The same set was rebranded as G.I. Joe, M.A.S.K., The A-Team, and Rambo toy sets as well. |
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Trigun has giant multi-story trains, connecting the cities throughout Gunsmoke Planet. | |
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The Polar Express. Name a scene from that movie more iconic than Multi-Track Drifting across a frozen lake. We'll wait. | |
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On the cover of Motörhead's Orgasmatron◊ album. | |
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During the New York episode of Xiaolin Showdown, Jack showed up with a train that turned into a mecha. Dojo shapeshifted into a dragon train during the same episode, but it's not a form he likes to take (apparently, the third rail really chafes). A couple of seasons later, Jack took this even further by showing up with a flying train. | |
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The 1985 movie prison-escape-movie Runaway Train featured four diesel locomotives coupled together to form the title train, a black, ice-encrusted, dinosaur-like monster machine tearing through an Alaskan blizzard with no brakes. The fact that the train was intended solely as a moving stage for the drama occurring inside it was irrelevant to the fact that it possessed as much character as the Golden-Globe winning, Oscar-Nominated performances of actors Jon Voight and Eric Roberts, especially after it crashed through another train and became hideously deformed!! | |
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The Story Train from Rick and Morty, a huge luxurious space train with narrative-related powers that manifests its own energy rails from the locomotive, which looks vaguely like a quill/pen tip. | |
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Anpanman has SL Man and Poppochan, both being sentient trains. | |
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Engine Sentai Go-onger/Power Rangers RPM with the Kyoretsu-Oh/PaleoMax Megazord. In a series with animal/vehicle hybrids, these are dinosaur trains. | |
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The Huffin Puff Express: The titular train is a massive freight train of 108 cars, all of which are being pulled by a locomotive based on a Southern Pacific Class GS-3. | |
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Iain M. Banks' Consider Phlebas has a Planet of the Dead, which has ancient, subterranean three-story miles-long trains that were used as mobile command centers by the extinct builders. Then one gets moving... | |
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Dethklok's massive Dethtrain from Metalocalypse. | |
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St Charlie's in Skin Horse. It's a city. Full of Mad Scientists. On a subway train. Under Boston. | |
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World of Warcraft: The Draenor dungeon, Grimrail Depot, serves as a base for the eponymous Iron Horde siege train. In addition to running on Iron Star tech better suited to explosives and war machines, and being huge enough to serve as a dungeon in its own right, it carries a massive artillery cannon intended to short-circuit the Iron Horde's stalled offensive against Shattrath by obliterating it. Naturally, it's the players' job to blow the Grimrail up first. | |
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Haiku, the Robot has the Traveling Town, a sentient train that serves as the game's shortcut mechanic by instantly taking you to specific points on the map. It's also home to Rondel the welder and Sonnet the book-obsessed shopkeeper. | |
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Chargeman Ken! has one appear in one episode, only to be destroyed by a dinosaur. | |
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Little Golden Books: Tootle, the eponymous character from the book of the same name is an aversion, since the fact that he's a talking train is not really the point (the actual point is the story's "Aesop" which, depending on how you look at it, has gone somewhat out of fashion over the decades). "The Little Red Caboose" (which is part of a train) from the same series is a somewhat more straight example (because of its Moment of Awesome... well, by the series' standards anyway). |
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Jim West and Artemus Gordon's rolling headquarters on The Wild Wild West. The Wanderer was played by the William Mason, a perfectly preserved American classic. | |
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The ChME-3, a diesel locomotive made for the Soviet Union in Czechoslovakia, is a rare diesel that looks like a steam locomotive. Seen in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.. Rare? It's actually the most numerous locomotive in the world. All hail to ÄŒKD! |
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Brood Star has the Infested Train, a biomechanical locomotive many times larger than the player's spacecraft. It has multiple gun turrets with which to shoot at the player, can spawn lesser enemies to throw at them, and acts as one of the potential bosses of the Construction level. | |
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Mario Kart 64 and Mario Kart 7 had a 1900s-ish steam train rolling around Kalamari Desert, occasinally crossing the racetrack. | |
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Mario Kart 8 features a magic flying train swooping around its remake of 64's Rainbow Road. | |
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Hans Voralberg's train in the Syberia adventure game duology. The kicker? It's a freaking clockwork train and has to be rewound at each station to go further. | |
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The main train from Undersea Super Train: Marine Express. | |
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Iron Storm has an entire level set on a gigantic armored train which the player has to traverse from the tail car to the locomotive. There's even a chapel wagon and a swimming pool. It's even more appreciated since it comes after a invokedmuch hated stealth-based level. | |
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James Bond: Tiger Tanaka's train from You Only Live Twice. It is a secret subway system under Tokyo with complete office and communications facilities on board for Japan's Spymaster. Octopussy circus train. The missile train from GoldenEye. |
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There's also the Shy Guy Express, part of the Party Tent events in Mario Party 8. | |
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Later, LinerGao, modeled after a (then) cutting-edge Shinkansen bullet train, and succeeded in FINAL by a space shuttle for some reason. | |
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Lego’s Time Twisters (villains to the Time Cruisers) line featured the Twisted Time Train, perhaps inspired by Backtothe Future Part III‘s ‘Jules Verne train’, or rather, locomotive, pictured above. | |
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A few trains show up in Mario Kart, either as drivable karts or course hazards. Mario Kart 64 and Mario Kart 7 had a 1900s-ish steam train rolling around Kalamari Desert, occasinally crossing the racetrack. Diddy Kong's kart in Mario Kart: Double Dash!! was the Barrel Train, a tiny wooden train with a whistle instead of a horn - this kart reappeared in 7. Mario Kart 8 features a magic flying train swooping around its remake of 64's Rainbow Road. |
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Exalted: Solar Monorail Chirmirajen, a train that can go anywhere in the world, but is primarily used to transport personnel and guests to and from the Daystar...the setting's sun. It is also intelligent, having a rather impulsive and heroically inclined autopilot, and it is quite literally powered by hope (its fuel is hopeful prayers directed to Heaven in general or the sun in particular). The writers have described it as "Thomas & Friends, by way of Gamera." The Solar Monorail also has a counterpart in the Underworld: the Midnight Express. Less is known about this one, but it is sufficiently awesome that the Deathlords want control of it. They have not yet succeeded. |
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Galaxy Express 999, described as the love child of a Cool Train and a Cool Ship. What's even cooler is that the 999 itself was inspired by a real life train: The number from the Empire State Express No. 999 (which as you can guess, operated in New York, a.k.a.: the "Empire State") The 999 was the first steam locomotive to exceed 100 MPH, making it a Real Life Cool Train for its time. However, the locomotive itself is based on the Japanese National Railway C 62. The Galaxy Railways, which is part of the Galaxy Express 999 universe, is all about Cool Space Trains. Kenji Miyazawa wrote a book called "Night on the Galactic Railroad" which also involved a "cool train" of sorts. In fact, the original Japanese title ("Ginga Tetsudou no Yoru") was the inspiration behind the Japanese title of Leiji Matsumoto's manga ("Ginga Tetsudou 999"). |
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The Mammoth Car featured in Speed Racer is basically a train with tires, filled with ninjas on motorcycles and made of solid gold! Of course, a solid gold train weigh hundreds of tonnes and handle crummy, but the entire situation was academic. The entire point of the Mammoth car was to smuggle the gold out of the country in the last place anyone would think to look. Yes, it handled crummy (somewhat mitigated by the fact that nearly every wheel had its own engine), but it crushed everything in its path. |
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In Cherie Priest's third Clockwork Century novel, Dreadnought, the main character must travel upon a Union war locomotive, the aforementioned Dreadnought. It is used by the Union to terrorize Confederate rail traffic, as most characters acknowledge its power. Basically, it's a warship on rails, with a heavily armored engine, plenty of automated guns, and a complement of troops on board. Also, it's involved in a cross-country chase to Washington State, involving Confederate spies, Texas Rangers, bushwackers, mad scientists, and zombies. | |
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Kyūkyū Sentai GoGoV and Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue had GrandLiner/the Supertrain Megazord, another Super Robot example of this trope. | |
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Factory of the Gods: When Julian unlocks the ability to create trains, they are explicitly stated to be steam powered but look more like modern diesel engines. Julian weaponizes one of them to run over an antagonist. | |
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And despite being right after ToQger, Shuriken Sentai Ninninger has Byunmaru, another train, although it is a Shinkansen. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: The lightning rail from the setting Eberron. The module "Train of Events" from Dungeon #44 featured a steam-powered railway built by mountain dwarves to deliver supplies between dwarven cities. |
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This same train appeared on Top Gear (UK) and ran from London to Edinburgh with Jeremy Clarkson feeding it coal, making it cooler still. Especially since they ran the train at 75 MPH for most of the journey, which is mighty quick for a Steam Train! They said in the Top Gear segment that Tornado could go up to 100 MPH but they were being limited to 75 MPH, and to Jeremy Clarkson's disappointment they said "yes" when he asked if there were speed cameras. What makes it a really cool train though is it keeps working when electrics do not. For comparison, in the glory days of the A1 and A3 classes, they would run the Flying Scotsman at an average speed upwards of 70mph. That is, they spent significant parts of the journey well above that speed. They didn't name them after racehorses for nothing! |
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Banjo-Tooie has Chuffy the locomotive. | |
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Railhead: Given that they are nuclear-fusion-powered, controlled by fully sentient AI, crewed by maintenance spiders, and are the only form of transport capable of interstellar travel by crossing the K-Gates, every train in the setting counts, although some deserve special mention: The Noon Train, capable of carrying the entire Imperial court in all the ludicrous luxury that entails, pulled by a pair of ancient locomotive lovers. The Damansk Rose, a grouchy yet kind-hearted old locomotive recovered from the Dog Star Line by Zen and Nova - which turns out to be surprisingly well-armed. The Ghost Wolf, a battle-hungry yet surprisingly affable wartrain introduced in Black Light Express, and possibly the only C12 Zodiak not to go insane. |
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The Montauk, the Brotherhood of Nod's underground mobile HQ from Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun. | |
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The Brave Express Might Gaine — a Cool Train Humongous Mecha. Or rather, a Cool Train Humongous Mecha army. Between Great Might Gaine, Battle Bomber, Guard Diver, and Might Gunner, there were no less than twelve individual trains. Their ultimate finisher move, Joint Dragon Fire, literally had the opponent getting run over by the whole line of them, linked together, WHILE THEY WERE ENGULFED IN A DRAGON-SHAPED FIREBALL. If that ain't a Cool Train, I don't know what is. Later, LinerGao, modeled after a (then) cutting-edge Shinkansen bullet train, and succeeded in FINAL by a space shuttle for some reason. |
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The city of Ba Sing Se in Avatar: The Last Airbender has proto-trains made of stone and powered by Earthbenders, travelling along elevated viaducts like a pre-steam El. | |
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Doraemon would pay homage to Galaxy Express 999 in a chapter where Nobita gets his hands on the ticket to the last running of a galaxy-spanning train that has been made obsolete by the "Anywhere Door". The short later gets expanded into a feature-length film, /Doraemon: Nobita and the Galaxy Super-express, with hostile aliens thrown in the mix. | |
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The demonic-looking steam locomotive from PLAY SAFE! PLAY SAFE! | |
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Grim Fandango features the Number Nine, a train that carries the souls of the dead all the way to the Ninth Underworld (Heaven) in four minutes, rather than the usual four years. It's based on the design of the PRR S1. | |
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The 38 Engines of the Line in The Half-Made World are sentient Cool Trains with a hint of Eldritch Abomination. Nobody knows their exact origin: whether they're spirits of the half-made West given form by human hands, born from the minds of humans themselves, or something else entirely. Either way, they're inhuman and unkillable (destroyed Engines are simply rebuilt the same as ever) and inexorably annexing every city in the West into their oppressively industrial Line. As the concept of "giant evil trains" is rife for Narm, author Felix Gilman never gives us a full description of them, only vivid impressions of certain parts of one. | |
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Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion features various real-life Japanese bullet trains, all capable of transforming into Humongous Mecha. Some double as Combining Mecha as well. If that wasn't enough, the series makes extensive uses of crossovers, which resulted in not only a slightly odd Hello Kitty-themed robot but at least two based on a EVANGELION. Let's face it, the Eva units are the highlight in terms of crossover mecha. | |
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BBK/BRNK has one that's big enough for a Buranki to be transported on, and is implied to be capable of flying (to reach the "Buranki nest," which is an airborne island). | |
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Mutant Chronicles: In older editions of Warzone, Capitol operated a number of huge armored trains in south Mars, which were literally described as railbound battleships and aircraft carriers, designed to fulfill that role in an environment without seas. Third Edition gave us Whitestar's Zolotoy Glaz (Golden Eye), a combined palace/command and control center/army base operating on the rail networks throughout Whitestar territory, and allowing the Tzarina to transfer her court to any place or event that requires her personal input and deal with it decisively. |
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One episode of Victoria details the advent of the railways in the United Kingdom, and features a replica 2-2-0 Planet, the first mass-produced steam engine. Prince Albert dubs the steam engine "the most magnificent thing I have ever seen", he and Sir Robert Peel go joyriding on the engine, and even Queen Victoria decides to go for a train ride because of all the hype. | |
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Sturmgeist's armored train in Medal of Honor: Frontline, and the Greta railroad cannon in the original. | |
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In The Lost Crown, Nigel comes to Saxton on an old-time steam locomotive, the Sleepwalker. Considering how many other supernatural forces are manifested in Saxton, the Sleepwalker may well have been the ghost of a train. | |
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Paranatural sports the Ghost Train, a living train. It's the only spectral being capable of passing through the barrier around Mayview. Too bad it gets severely injured due to a misunderstanding. | |
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Star Wars: The Old Republic: The first half of the "Crisis On Umbara" flashpoint takes place on board of a sleek, hovering train on the planet Umbara. The design of the train was also used in creating the Umbara Mobile Base Galactic Stronghold. | |
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Bravely Default continues Square Enix's tradition (see Final Fantasy, below) with the Promethean Fire summon. | |
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The armored train in Castle in the Sky. | |
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For a time, Batman had a sub-way rocket, which was effectively a jet propelled train-car. And it was awesome. | |
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Final Fantasy: Unlimited had the Interdimensional Train, also known as Elizabeth, which can transport the characters between the various universes that make up Wonderland. | |
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Starcross, the second book in the Larklight series, has a whole Cool Railway constructed in the Asteroid Belt by the same company that built the Crystal Palace. Yes, ''the'' Crystal Palace that housed the 1851 Great Exhibition. | |
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The Super Mario Bros. franchise has several to name, and some of which are Locomotive Levels: Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story has the Fawful Express, a heavily armoured train with Fawful's mug on it. Bowser turns giant to face off with it while it tries to escape and lure him into a trap. Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door has the Excess Express, a downright badass-looking black and gold engine which serves as the main setting for Chapter 6. Likewise, a Traintop Battle with a large monster occurs near the end of the chapter. Also, the train from Paper Mario 64, inspired by the train from Mario Kart 64 - you even get to listen to a remix of Kalamari Desert's theme while riding it. A few trains show up in Mario Kart, either as drivable karts or course hazards. Mario Kart 64 and Mario Kart 7 had a 1900s-ish steam train rolling around Kalamari Desert, occasinally crossing the racetrack. Diddy Kong's kart in Mario Kart: Double Dash!! was the Barrel Train, a tiny wooden train with a whistle instead of a horn - this kart reappeared in 7. Mario Kart 8 features a magic flying train swooping around its remake of 64's Rainbow Road. There's also the Shy Guy Express, part of the Party Tent events in Mario Party 8. Super Mario 3D World has the final level of World 3, "The Bullet Bill Express" and World Bowser's fourth overall level, "The Bowser Express", both of which are captained by Pom-Pom (the female counterpart of Boom-Boom), who serves as the boss of those levels. There is also "The Coin Express" in World 5, which serves as a bonus level where the player collects coins and plays the slot machine minigame at the end, and will reappear when the player plays 25 levels. |
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The Big O features a train (somewhat disarmingly called "Prairie Dog") that transports a Giant Robot to wherever it is needed underneath Paradigm City. What's so cool about that? Well, for one thing, the robot is so big, the train requires two sets of tracks. And it's voice activated. | |
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Also, the train from Paper Mario 64, inspired by the train from Mario Kart 64 - you even get to listen to a remix of Kalamari Desert's theme while riding it. | |
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Final Fantasy VI also had a train that acted as a courier of recently departed souls to the afterlife. An Undead Train. It's so cool that he made cameo appearances as an Optional Boss in both Final Fantasy remakes, and Final Fantasy IV: The After Years. | |
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Girl Genius: The Wyrm of Limerick, dragon-headed train of the Corbettite Railway, run by a holy order who see the train itself as a religious object. And in an emergency it can turn into an airship. Later in the arc, for reasons which defy explanation, it acquires a BEAR as a driver.. And, deep beneath their sanctuary, the Corbettites have imprisoned The Beast; Saturnus Heterodyne's intelligent locomotive which ravenously searches for coal, and has all the concern for others one expects of a Heterodyne AI. And then a fancy new supertrain with the intellect of the late(ish) Corbettite Brother Ulm, which is capable of tunneling underground. |
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The Boland Belle in Forest of Boland Light Railway. | |
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The titular train in ''Winchester is an EMD E 9 A carrying cargo across post-apocalyptic America. | |
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Starlight Express. All characters appearing on stage are either locomotives or train cars. Most of them cool. | |
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The city on rails in Christopher Priest's spooky novel The Inverted World. It is located on world with a mindboggling topography that shifts, so the train city must move to stay in a habitable zone. However, all "good things" have an end. | |
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Diddy Kong's kart in Mario Kart: Double Dash!! was the Barrel Train, a tiny wooden train with a whistle instead of a horn - this kart reappeared in 7. | |
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The Transformers (IDW): In the Heart of Steel series by IDW, set in the late 19th century, most of the Transformers transformed into these. The mack-daddy of these was the combined thing made of the three Insecticons, which had a gun turret on top, pneumatic bumpers on the back to derail pursuers, and giant evil jaws on the front. Up to eleven! And in the main series, there's Astrotrain, who turns into a locomotive and a space shuttle, as well as not one, not two but three train Combining Mecha teams (Raiden, Sixliner & Rail Racer/JRX). |
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Half of the plot of Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box involves a ride on a luxury train, the Molentary Express (the other half deals with the train's destination). It has a special car which changes tracks in transit, enabling them to visit the town of Folsense. | |
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In Impossible Creatures, you have a steampunk looking steam locomotive that can fly, which acts as your hub building during games, called a Lab. | |
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Total War: Warhammer III: The Chaos Dwarfs have the Dread Quake Mortar, which is a Steampunk train that runs without tracks (on Rule of Cool), containing a mortar that fires an Earth Quake Machine round into enemies, as well as two forwards mounted Fire-Breathing Weapon emplacements. | |
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Octopussy circus train. | |
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In The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl, the wealthy hedonist Rihaku owns a garish triple-decker train that has public bath house on one storey and a fairly ostentatious party hall below it. He also stocks the train with a near-unlimited supply of the otherwise rare liquor "Imitation Denki Bran" brandy. | |
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Morton's special train in Once Upon a Time in the West. | |
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The Starflight Express, from Dragon Quest IX. | |
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Central Pacific 131, which was hurled off a bridge and rebuilt at the ending of Back to the Future Part III, pictured above. A flying time traveling train, and "It runs on steam!". Then there's the "actress" portraying the "character", Sierra No. 3◊, the undisputed "Movie Star Locomotive" who starred in many a Clint Eastwood and Western film, as well as a colorful role in the sitcom Petticoat Junction. | |
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The module "Train of Events" from Dungeon #44 featured a steam-powered railway built by mountain dwarves to deliver supplies between dwarven cities. | |
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Cars has Trev Diesel, a red and yellow diesel locomotive that almost hit Lightning McQueen on his way to Radiator Springs, while the sequel has Stephenson, a British bullet train used by Mater, Finn McMissile, and Holly Shiftwell to get from Paris, France to Porto Corsa, Italy. The Planes sequels got two steam trains. |
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Casey Junior, the circus train from Dumbo. Between his iconic theme song, his recognizability as one of the earliest Disney characters, the progenitor of several attractions at the Disney parks, and his unique and iconic design, he gives a certain other blue sentient steam locomotive a run for his money in terms of popularity, in spite of only having five scenes in his entire film. | |
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The Gosei Snake in Tensou Sentai Goseiger also counts—it appears from a bullet train. | |
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One Piece has an example in the Water 7/Enies Lobby arc, with "Puffing Tom", a train that runs on a track floating on the sea from island to island. It gets better. They eventually introduce the even more badass prototype with no brakes known as Rocket Man, which has a SHARK FACE painted on the front. They have now built a second one called the Puffing Ice. | |
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Subway trains in the Nightside series don't require drivers, travel through various other dimensions as shortcuts, and heal themselves when damaged. Decades of exposure to the Nightside's ambient weirdness has also made these vehicles into sentient beings with their own fears, spirit of professionalism, and mating season. | |
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Futurama had a train going at the speed of light. When it hits a prism, it splits. | |
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Galactic Whirlwind Sasuraiger. | |
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The Walt Disney World Monorail trains. Fittingly for the "Highway in the Sky," what better a design than one where the nose cone explicitly evokes a Lear jet? | |
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Final Fantasy: Final Fantasy VIII and the Doomtrain. It's one of the only Guardian Forces that's actually worth summoning, as it's the best way of inflicting the obscenely useful Vit-0 status (along with a bunch of other Status Effects). Final Fantasy VI also had a train that acted as a courier of recently departed souls to the afterlife. An Undead Train. It's so cool that he made cameo appearances as an Optional Boss in both Final Fantasy remakes, and Final Fantasy IV: The After Years. Final Fantasy: Unlimited had the Interdimensional Train, also known as Elizabeth, which can transport the characters between the various universes that make up Wonderland. |
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Holy Umbrella features the Pickle Express, an ocean-going train. | |
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Rhapsodies' 2012 Christmas storyline features Santa's "Mobile Armored Workshop and Platform" | |
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In Girls' Frontline, KCCO employs several armored trains with heavy firepower and enough room to house a company's worth of soldiers. The trains are a fixture of several stages in Shattered Connexion, providing supporting fire for enemy echelons as well as serving as the stage's boss. The Commander later hijacks one during and puts its mounted railguns to good use against another armored train. | |
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In his live-action, Latin-American TV show, Topo Gigio (an Italian mouse some may remember from The Ed Sullivan Shownote He's Italian, but he speaks Spanish here.) once did a song called "El Tren de Chocolate". Even the mere thought of a "Chocolate Train" sounds cool. | |
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In fact, seven years later, what does DenLiner do? Combine with the ToQger's machine! | |
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol 2 has a Secret Black Government Train. Its engine number is .007, which isn't a reference to Campion Bond's family, but to Kipling (see below). | |
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Team Bullet Train in Transformers: Robots in Disguise has the ability to create rails wherever they needed to go... or just drive on land. And due to this series respecting scale more than usual, they towered over most other Transformers, and could combine into Rail Racer. In one episode they become quite attached to a steam train, even though it isn't sentient. | |
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Shadow and Bone has the Caper Crew of thieves use an armored train to get across the black magic-created dark fog ("The Fold") that divides the country of Ravka. | |
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In the Russian film Krai, the characters give their trains names and race them. | |
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In TRON and TRON: Legacy, the Solar Sailer. In the first one, it's used in a harrowing escape. In Legacy, it's a whole lot spiffier for a moment of solace for the three main heroes. | |
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The iOS interactive fiction 80 Days has plenty, since they're the most popular mode of transportation in the Steam Punkish version of Jules Verne's story. Depending on your route choices, you may miss out on a few, at least in that playthrough. The only one that you will definitely see is the train between London and Paris that crosses the English Channel by diving under it (that's right, a submarine steam train). The Orient Express isn't any different from its Real Life version, but still a treat for any train enthusiast (it's also faster than most other trains in the game). The Kamer-Taj is the pride of the Ottoman Empire, with the front of the locomotive being made to look like a rearing horse. The Trans-Siberian Express can take you clear across the Russian Empire if you take the Northern route. Several other Russian trains look like the onion-shaped steeples on Russian Orthodox churches... with cannons sticking out. In the US, there's the Transcontinental Express, which can take you from San Francisco all the way to the East Cost. Passepartout even notes with amusement the attempts of American trains to compete with their European counterparts. | |
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Komarovsky rides around in a Russian armored train in Doctor Zhivago. | |
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The eponymous vehicle of Infinity Train is an Eldritch Location consisting of a seemingly endless string of vast cars, careening nonstop through a desolate wasteland. Each car contains some sort of puzzle or obstacle. Some of them have entire worlds hidden inside of them, such as Corginia, a kingdom of talking dogs with Grecian architecture. | |
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The Mouse Watch has the S.W.I.S.S. (Secret Watcher International Sewer System), the titular heroes' high-speed maglev transport. It's part of an underground subway system that covers the whole world, and it takes Bernie and Jarvis from Los Angeles to New York City in ten minutes. | |
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Tiger Tanaka's train from You Only Live Twice. It is a secret subway system under Tokyo with complete office and communications facilities on board for Japan's Spymaster. | |
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Rock N Roll Train by AC/DC | |
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Naruto: In the non-serial movie Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow we have Dosu's train, a humongous armored monstrosity four tracks wide armed with equally humongous hand-cranked Gatling gun-style (or Metal Storm-style) Kunai launchers that massacre a ninja Redshirt Army charging towards the train with absurd ease. | |
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In the Super Sentai/Power Rangers series... Kyūkyū Sentai GoGoV and Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue had GrandLiner/the Supertrain Megazord, another Super Robot example of this trope. Mahou Sentai Magiranger and its US counterpart, Power Rangers Mystic Force, had Travelion/the Solar Streak Megazord. Engine Sentai Go-onger/Power Rangers RPM with the Kyoretsu-Oh/PaleoMax Megazord. In a series with animal/vehicle hybrids, these are dinosaur trains. The Gosei Snake in Tensou Sentai Goseiger also counts—it appears from a bullet train. Ressha Sentai ToQger makes trains the primary series theme - the mecha are trains, the weapons are train-themed (with things like a rail sword, signal hammer and bridge claw), everything is about trains. To give an example of how far this series takes it, the franchise usually has the Transformation Trinkets announce cool phrases on morphing, but ToQger's is "Transformation commencing! Please stand behind the white line!" - and it summons a white line for the monsters to stand behind. And despite being right after ToQger, Shuriken Sentai Ninninger has Byunmaru, another train, although it is a Shinkansen. Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger introduces the X-Trains, a pair of gold and silver trains piloted by the series' Sixth Ranger, Lupin X/Patren X. The trains also miniaturize and combine in order to serve as his blaster and morpher. Mashin Sentai Kiramager has multiple related train mecha. First is Mashin Jouki, which belongs to the villains and can transform into a dinosaur mech with a chainsaw tail. Then the Kiramagers get Mashin Express, a bullet train engine that can connect to Jouki, hijack it, and combine with it into the Humongous Mecha King Express. And then finally, Mashin Zabyun is a heroic version of Jouki (though without the dinosaur mode) that also combines with Express into its own version of King Express. |
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The original Sakura Wars had the kohbu-carrying Goraigoh, possibly best described as a steam-age bullet train nearly the size of an ocean liner. Sakura Wars: The Movie cubed the cool by showing its dispatch/launch mechanism, which fired the train straight down a vertical track into an improbable wonderland of rollercoaster-like track that eventually merged with the Tokyo subway system. | |
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Choo-Choo Charles has Charles himself, who, when you get past how disturbing he is, is a sentient train with spider legs and permanent Slasher Smile on his face. You also have the option to upgrade your locomotive, which starts out as a standard car with a machine gun, but can be outfitted with new weapons (one of which being a rocket launcher), reinforced armor and plating, and once fully upgraded, will have spikes around the main frame and horns around the chimney. You also have twelve fabulous colors to decorate the train with. | |
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The large-scale Warhammer 40,000 spin-off games Titan Legions and Epic 40,000 featured a unit for the Squats (space dwarfs) called the "Land Train". Each car had its own weapon system or upgrade, ranging from mortars to a gyrocopter landing pad, but then the Squats were removed from the 'verse and gamers were left with marginally less ridiculously over-the-top Humongous Mecha and Super-Heavy Battle Tanks to wage war with... | |
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Supertrain, a nuclear-powered bullet train that almost killed NBC in the late 1970s. It was essentially The Love Boat on rails (both the show and the train itself).note One episode featured a piece of music that would later be used as the theme to the Game Show Chain Reaction. | |
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Mahou Sentai Magiranger and its US counterpart, Power Rangers Mystic Force, had Travelion/the Solar Streak Megazord. | |
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Team Fortress 2. Payload variant map "Frontier", where the bomb cart is replaced with a train with an awesome face painted on the front. Anybody caught in the train's path dies instantly. Quite a few custom maps also feature instant kill trains that run through the stage every so often. |
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The Egg Train in Sonic the Hedgehog: Triple Trouble is a supply train created by Dr. Eggman. It's so long, the entirety of Sunset Park Act 3 is Sonic running along the top. The engine car can shoot spiky metal balls back at Sonic if he gets too close. Since then, Eggman has relied on a network of Cool Trains for mass delivery, as seen in Rail Canyon Zone and Bullet Station Zone in Sonic Heroes, albeit none have ever been nearly as huge as the Egg Train. | |
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Super Mario 3D World has the final level of World 3, "The Bullet Bill Express" and World Bowser's fourth overall level, "The Bowser Express", both of which are captained by Pom-Pom (the female counterpart of Boom-Boom), who serves as the boss of those levels. There is also "The Coin Express" in World 5, which serves as a bonus level where the player collects coins and plays the slot machine minigame at the end, and will reappear when the player plays 25 levels. | |
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A couple of trains have appeared in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, but the coolest one has to be the one for the Crystal Empire. | |
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Also in Doctor Who in Season 8, The Doctor and Clara end up on a Space Train (shades of Galaxy Express 999, above) that mimics the Orient Express. Naturally, there are several murders. | |
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Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress has the Hayajiros, a set of armored and possibly nuclear-powered trains that comprise the only method of safe transport between the heavily fortified stations protect the populace from the Zombie Apocalypse. Most of the action in the series takes place on or around them. | |
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The Snowpiercer, a humongous bullet train still running 17 years after an Ice Age wiped out all life on Earth, able to break through icy snowdrifts, and the last refuge of mankind. A truly Cool Train! | |
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Blaine the Mono from The Dark Tower. Insane riddling supersonic trans-universal pink monorail train. Finally defeated by Black Comedy. | |
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The Brave Locomotive: The titular character, Linus, saves the day in spite of his obsolete configuration. | |
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The Crayon Rail game ''Iron Dragon'' | |
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Every Rider in Kamen Rider Den-O has a train, capable of traveling through the timestream and armed to the teeth in order to fight monsters. This list includes the DenLiner (Den-O), ZeroLiner (Zeronos), GaohLiner/God's Train (Gaoh), Nega DenLiner (Nega Den-O), New DenLiner (New Den-O), and Yu-KiLiner/Ghost Train (Yu-Ki). Additionally, the terminal station which appears late in the series can transform into the gigantic KingLiner(Den-O Liner Form). In fact, seven years later, what does DenLiner do? Combine with the ToQger's machine! |
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In Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Marching to the New Wonderland and its sequel seasons, the goats pilot the Xiha trains, which all have cool functions that come in handy (Jonie's train can create forcefields to protect others, for example). In the sequel seasons to Marching in the New Wonderland, they take on forms suited for sea travel and flying through the air as well. | |
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Princess of the Night by Saxon is a paean to the LMS Princess Royal Class locomotive, which vocalist Bill Byford used to watch as a child bringing in the town's mail during the night. | |
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As in the original TV series, Jim West and Artemus Gordon travel in one named "The Wanderer" in Wild Wild West. | |
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Mashin Sentai Kiramager has multiple related train mecha. First is Mashin Jouki, which belongs to the villains and can transform into a dinosaur mech with a chainsaw tail. Then the Kiramagers get Mashin Express, a bullet train engine that can connect to Jouki, hijack it, and combine with it into the Humongous Mecha King Express. And then finally, Mashin Zabyun is a heroic version of Jouki (though without the dinosaur mode) that also combines with Express into its own version of King Express. | |
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Potential runner for most famous train in Britain, if not the world: LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman. And you can race against it in Forza Horizon 4! | |
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The "Miracle Express" from the Queen music video "Breakthru" from The Miracle. | |
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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door has the Excess Express, a downright badass-looking black and gold engine which serves as the main setting for Chapter 6. Likewise, a Traintop Battle with a large monster occurs near the end of the chapter. | |
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Link and Zelda ride around in one in The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks. Which can ride underwater and is mounted with a huge cannon. If you use the cannon underwater, it fires torpedoes instead of cannonballs. The Big Bad has one too — that flies. Suspiciously, the front looks like Ganondorf's face. |
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Charge Man's stage in Mega Man 5, Slash Beast's in Mega Man X4, and the Neo Arcadian supply train in Mega Man Zero 1 and 2. | |
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The Railway Series, a.k.a., Thomas & Friends. | |
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Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story has the Fawful Express, a heavily armoured train with Fawful's mug on it. Bowser turns giant to face off with it while it tries to escape and lure him into a trap. | |
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Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger introduces the X-Trains, a pair of gold and silver trains piloted by the series' Sixth Ranger, Lupin X/Patren X. The trains also miniaturize and combine in order to serve as his blaster and morpher. | |
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Green Eggs and Ham: Sam and Guy ride on one of these on their journey. Perplexingly, it has a "Model Train Car" which contains a scaled down model of the actual train that reflects exactly what's happening on and inside of it, which creeps Guy out when he takes a look at it. | |
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The Iron Horse in Rifts World Book 14: The New West is a fire-breathing Magitek train powered by captured greater demons. | |
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The title vehicle in the Firefly episode "The Train Job" qualified as a Cool Train. | |
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Charge Man himself is a Cool Train; in Mega Man Battle Network, especially. | |
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Pokémon Trozei! has the Phobos train, which is a location that walks on legs like a centipede. | |
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In Tormentum Dark Sorrow, you ride a truly badass train◊ that has the same Giger-esque artstyle as the rest of the game. | |
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Bayonetta 3 features a (maybe?) sentient train as a new Infernal Demon summon: Wartrain Gouon, Charger of the Crimson Rim. It rides on purple flaming tracks that can be placed almost anywhere as it goes, is armed with giant chainsaws and heavy artillery cannons, and has a screaming face hidden in the front that can impale enemies with its bladed chin. It is bonded to the Dead End Express weapon, which is part giant chainsaw, part train, and part motorcycle that Bayonetta can ride around to smash into enemies, even letting out loud train whistles while performing Charged Attacks. As an Infernal Demon, Bayonetta can even perform a Fusion Dance with it, gaining the power to ride along its flame-rails and slice foes up with chainsaw-wheels. Awesome. | |
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In Metro Exodus the Rangers of the Spartan order flees the Moscow metro in the train they later named Aurora, after the Russian cruiser that fired the first shot of the October Revolution. | |
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The requisite big chase in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome revolves around a train made of a truck and a small house that doubled as a methane powerplant (for some reason). | |
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Final Fantasy VIII and the Doomtrain. It's one of the only Guardian Forces that's actually worth summoning, as it's the best way of inflicting the obscenely useful Vit-0 status (along with a bunch of other Status Effects). | |
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In The Keys to the Kingdom, Grim Tuesday had a personal train with SPIKES all over it. | |
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Mega Man: Charge Man's stage in Mega Man 5, Slash Beast's in Mega Man X4, and the Neo Arcadian supply train in Mega Man Zero 1 and 2. Charge Man himself is a Cool Train; in Mega Man Battle Network, especially. The Gemeinschaft from Mega Man Legends 2 was a boss train that fired bombs, bullets and lasers at the player. |
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American Restoration: Mark Bassett, the director of the Nevada Northern Railroad Museum makes frequent visits to have items with a railroad connection restored. One of these is a railroad velocipede. Upon completion of the restoration and delivery to Ely, Nevada, Rick gets to operate one of the NN's steam locomotives. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Flip Effect Monster Dekoichi the Battlechanted Locomotive is cool-looking, has a cool name, and helps draw cards. Steamroid looks like a goofy toy train, but still powerful. Superheavy Samurai Train King, is a locomotive with a freakin' demon's head! The game also has an entire deck archetype of them, based around getting high powered level ten / rank ten monsters on the field quickly. |
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Hiveswap: Much of Act 2 takes place on a massive train that holds members of every bloodcaste except Fuchsia. There are two bloodtypes for each train; Rust/Bronze, Gold/Olive, Jade/Teal, Blue/Indigo, and Purple/Violet. | |
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In Priest (2011), Black Hat and his army of vampires travel through the wastelands outside the city in one of these. | |
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Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars had colonists living on the Martian moon Phobos build a train around the circumference of the moon and run it fast enough to generate rotational gravity, relieving the difficulties of living in microgravity and allowing colonists to acclimate before moving down to the Martian surface colonies. Later, Blue Mars had an entire city on Mercury that ran on train tracks to keep ahead of the dawn; this becomes an important central setting in 2312. |
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The Mortar, the train in the final mission in Hitman3. Named after the preferred transport of Baba Yaga, it's a Soviet-era mobile KGB Black Site, now owned by Providence, that runs on a constant loop through several of the former Warsaw-pact nations, from Zagreb to Irkutsk. | |
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The Boundless in Kenneth Oppel's novel The Boundless. It's a 987-coach-long train pulled by a locomotive so huge that the boiler alone is three stories tall, and needs to be staffed by a massive number of engineers (one of whom is Will's father). All the coaches are two stories tall, and each one serves a different purpose. There's a lounge car, a theater car, storage cars, sleeping quarters for the locomotive staff, etc., effectively making The Boundless a rolling city. | |
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The Woolfonts & Chickmarsh Railway in the Village Tales quite literally "runs on this trope:" it was created, ostensibly, as a community, heritage steam railway, microfranchised into an indispensable part of the national network, and relies on Retraux steam locomotives which look very "period" (modified Castle-class, in fact), such as No. 1003, Master of Dilton, No. 1005, Lady Clare, and No. 1007, Countess of Freuchie … but which were designed, internally, by Swiss DLM with assists from Dyson and Dyson and James May. Local bigwigs the Duke of Taunton and Sir Thomas Douty are typical anoraks … with money and connections. | |
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In Transformers, Astrotrain transforms into a space shuttle... Oh wait, and a train! | |
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Roy from Transsiberian marvels over some antique Russian trains. | |
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The Galaxy Railways, which is part of the Galaxy Express 999 universe, is all about Cool Space Trains. | |
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Thomas Fay Syndicate's comic A Train's World has cool trains making up the New York City Subway, it's considered an "urban Thomas & Friends!" | |
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