Train Tracks spotted

[Darg]

Originally Posted by Walker

First, I would like to obnoxiously brag that way back when someone made a thread about transport called something along the lines of "Trains, Planes, and Automobiles." I said. Trains? Hell yes! I don't see why not. YAY me! [continues boasting]



Weeeel. Here's the thing. It definitely looks like a very narrow gauge track. But trains have run on narrow gauges, even very narrow gauges-- mostly in mountainous and inaccessible regions where it was easier to fit narrow tracks or quicker to build or something.

Sure, those could be tracks for simple, cheap, ass-drawn mining carts. It could also be a steam railway, a horse-drawn railway, or even a gravity railway*.

Personally, I think any of those would be cool. And it doesn't look like horse-drawn to me, because I would think that if it were there would be railings or something on the roadbed the tracks are on.

And to me, at least, the building with the raised platform looks more like a small passenger train station than anything else.

*Not really a railway. Originally used to move around mining carts cheaply and easily (just let them roll downhill and then use that momentum to go up) they later ended up manifesting as a forerunner of today's roller coasters.

Dang... Someone did their homework on this, didn't they?!

[Skorm's Boss]

Originally Posted by Walker

First, I would like to obnoxiously brag that way back when someone made a thread about transport called something along the lines of "Trains, Planes, and Automobiles." I said. Trains? Hell yes! I don't see why not. YAY me! [continues boasting]

Originally Posted by Walker

Weeeel. Here's the thing. It definitely looks like a very narrow gauge track. But trains have run on narrow gauges, even very narrow gauges-- mostly in mountainous and inaccessible regions where it was easier to fit narrow tracks or quicker to build or something.

Sure, those could be tracks for simple, cheap, ass-drawn mining carts. It could also be a steam railway, a horse-drawn railway, or even a gravity railway*.

Personally, I think any of those would be cool. And it doesn't look like horse-drawn to me, because I would think that if it were there would be railings or something on the roadbed the tracks are on.

And to me, at least, the building with the raised platform looks more like a small passenger train station than anything else.

*Not really a railway. Originally used to move around mining carts cheaply and easily (just let them roll downhill and then use that momentum to go up) they later ended up manifesting as a forerunner of today's roller coasters.

Thanks for the starters guide to trains, tracks and other railway interests.
For more on the subject of tracks and there sizes I would recommend reading about Isambard Kingdom Brunell,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel
As the father of modern steam and railways he would have been able to help us out with this track!

[§ephiroxa§]

the sword he's got looks like the same old scimitar to me. Oooh I like trains. Maybe there's train Hobos!

[Soldier By Name]

Better yet, what if there are TRAINED HOBOS! lol.

[capt_moroni]

This is awesome! I mean, what else could they possibly have for us?
I know one thing. Even though pirates were cut from the game... I've seen a few pirates in images...

Coincidence?

Probably. But I can dream, anyway.

[Caboose]

Originally Posted by Skorm's Boss

and that's a station I'm sure of it!

Hmmm..... i'd call that more of a shack or Hovel than a Train station but seeing i said this it'll probably be the opposite of what i say (because i have really really really ****ty luck when it comes to guessing what things are)

[Velez]

I'm sensing a new mode of transportation here.

[Tsuyu]

Originally Posted by §ephiroxa§

the sword he's got looks like the same old scimitar to me. Oooh I like trains. Maybe there's train Hobos!

Train Hobbe Hobos!

[§ephiroxa§]

Originally Posted by Tsuyu

Train Hobbe Hobos!

Teehee. That'd just be silly.

[Soldier By Name]

Because regular drunken bumbling hobos wouldn't be? lol.

[Tsuyu]

Well, if makes perfect sense! The Hobbes really do look like hobos with their ragged clothing and all. And they've got the attitude to match.


"Nothing beats the Hobo life, stabbing folks with my Hobo knife..."

[Soldier By Name]

Mayhaps they're hobo hobbe bards?

[Spartan Samuel]

Dude, this "Hero" is ridiculous! Leaving dead bodies on a railway, knowing a trains going to come along eventually and kill several handfuls of people...

[Tsuyu]

Originally Posted by Spartan Samuel

Dude, this "Hero" is ridiculous! Leaving dead bodies on a railway, knowing a trains going to come along eventually and kill several handfuls of people...

I doubt a body would derail a train. More like it will just go "SPLOIIIISH!".

[Rolandk73]

I hope its a mine. A mine section would be cool.