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High-Speed Train Reroute
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If you're riding a Runaway Train, Rollercoaster Mine truck, or another vehicle on rails and you have to flip the railroad switch to redirect its course. What can you do? Characters in possession of a ranged weapon and with Improbable Aiming Skills are likely to shoot the lever from afar. Alternatively, one could just throw a large object at the switch to get the job done. Or, if the switch is close enough, you could just smack it as it passes by. In fiction, these solutions almost always work. In Real Life, however, things are a bit more complicated. Shooting a railroad switch might just break it instead of flipping it. See Train Stopping when instead of rerouting a moving train somebody is capable of stopping it in its tracks. Compare Cut the Fuse. |
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Star Fox 64: Used as both a game mechanic and mission objective in the Macbeth level, which requires Fox to use the Landmaster tank to shoot all eight rail switches, in order to reroute the enemy supply train into their own depot. Failure to do so results in an Skippable Boss fight. | |
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This occurs at the opening sequence of Assassin's Creed Syndicate. One of the Mooks reroutes the rails so that they lead to a cliff in order to get rid of Jacob Frye who was still on it. The driver attempts to stop the train but it's too late and he gets killed in the fall. Jacob barely escapes. | |
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During the climactic train chase in Paddington 2, Paddington is left stranded in the train's rear which Phoenix decouples, sending it on a dead-end track by hitting the railroad switch with a rod when passing it by. Watch the scene here. | |
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In the Thomas & Friends episode "Busy Going Backwards", Toad the Brake Van wishes he could go forward instead of backward. The Troublesome Trucks grant his wish by breaking away from Oliver as he makes it to the top of Gordon's Hill. With no conductor to stop him due to having jumped clear, the signalmen take action by switching the points to avoid having the runaway Toad crash into other engines. Toad eventually comes to a stop when he is directed into a muddy pond. | |
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101 Dalmatians: The Series: In "No Train, No Gain", Cruella steals the Dearlys' vintage train car and plots to sell it to a boy billionaire so she can make a handsome profit. However, as this car is the home of the Colonel, he, along with Lucky, Cadpig, Rolly, and Spot foil her plan by uncoupling the car from the train as it reaches the top of the mountain so it will roll back down. When Cruella tries to chase after the runaway car, Rolly switches the points to divert Cruella's train onto a disused track. | |
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In the Rocko's Modern Life episode "Manic Mechanic", Heffer speeds out of control in reverse when he takes Rocko's car for a test drive after his, Rocko's, and Filburt's attempts to fix it. At one point, Heffer gets onto a set of train tracks and is being chased by a train. When Rocko and Filburt catch up to him on Filburt's motor scooter, they come to a switch, and change the points to divert Heffer away from the train. | |
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Deliver Us the Moon has a Timed Mission where you have to save a Runaway Train from crashing by switching tracks via keyboard commands. | |
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Uncharted: The Lost Legacy: Upon discovering Asav's plan to blow up a bomb in the middle of a city in order to fuel his civil war, Chloe and Nadine board the train they're on to stop it. However, they discover that the bomb can't be defused and the engine has been completely welded shut, so Chloe steals one of their jeeps and rides ahead to swap out the track, rerouting the train towards a collapsed bridge, and saving the city as well. | |
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Judy Hopps from Zootopia sees the subway car with the nighthowler lab being on the same track as an inbound locomotive that bears a resemblance to a charging rhino. Judy promptly kicks one mook leaning out the broken windshield into a shunting switch that rerails her car onto a disused line that ends at the history museum. | |
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Sword of Mana: The abandoned mine is a Minecart Madness level where you have to do this several times to reach the boss and advance the plot. | |
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In Castle in the Sky, the Dola gang uses a car on tracks to follow Pazu and Sheeta who are fleeing on foot. When the heroes change tracks, Dola shoots the lever with her Flare Gun so they can switch tracks also and follow along. | |
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Slugterra: While pulling a Train Job in "Mario Bravado", Eli pulls off a trick shot to switch the path of Pronto's wagon off the main line and on to a spur. However, the spur leads to a dead end, forcing Mario to pull off an even more impressive trick shot to open the lock and free the prisoners before the wagon crashes. | |
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Octopussy: James Bond is pursuing Octopussy's train in a car which has become an impromptu train. When the station master sees Bond, he quickly changes the tracks, putting Bond on a parallel track. Bond manages to jump from the car to the train just before the car is struck by another train coming from the other direction. | |
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In the Casey Jr. short from Disney's The Reluctant Dragon, Casey comes face-to-face with a diesel engine approaching him at a high speed from the other side of the tracks. Casey alerts the switch lever, which is sentient, and it wakes up and switches the diesel away from Casey just in time. | |
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In the Trolls: TrollsTopia episode "Cakes on a Train", this is what Branch said must be urgently done after he found out that the brakes were forgotten while recreating the Metroll train, since the railway infrastructure was still unfinished. The others, who were more worried about the Perfection Cake that the train was carrying, tried to find an alternative until they finally complied and changed the way to give out the cake. | |
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In the Due South episode "All The Queen's Horses", Sergeant Frobisher is able to reroute a train by shooting the switch stand. | |
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Used in the mine cart rooms in The Legend of Zelda: Oracle Games when Link has to either whack the switch with his sword or hit it from afar with one of his ranged weapons. | |
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In the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode "Decoy for a Dognapper", the Villain of the Week sends Scooby on a ride down the train tracks on a rail car, which naturally puts him in danger of getting run over. while Shaggy pumps desperately to keep them ahead of the locomotive, Fred backtracks to the switch, reroutes the rail car to a sideline, and switches it back just in time to save them. | |
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Pokémon: The Series: In the Pikachu short "Camp Pikachu", while the Pokémon on handcar are chasing a steam train in order for the Pichu Brothers to board it, Psyduck accidentally lands on railroad switch causing the car to move in another direction away from the train. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks: The Minecart Madness version is seen in the Fire Temple. One of which involves moving two minecarts simultaneously (one for Link, one for the boss key) and therefore activating the switches for two separate tracks while in motion. Thankfully, the game shows you which switches to hit, it's up to the player to remember which ones. Averted with the Spirit Train itself (the main form of transportation): While the player can switch tracks while the train is moving, the train doesn't really move fast enough for it to be a problem, the map shows you where the train will go (including when the tracks branch off) and progress can be made automatically by charting a course on the map. |
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Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!: Occurs several times during the trolley mission in Breeze Harbor, where you have to also collect 50 gears while avoiding blocks, gaps, and TNT. | |
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This happens in Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers' Five-Episode Pilot "To the Rescue" during the climactic escape scene: The Rangers re-route Klordane's underground steam train by putting a screw nut on Dale's head and throwing him at a switch signal from the running train. When chipmunk and nut hit the thin piece of sheet metal that's the switch signal, they've still got enough inertia to throw the switch. | |
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During the mine cart chase in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, one set of Thuggee ... thugs shoots a switch to get themselves onto a safer track. | |
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