On Mon, May 12, 2014 12:49 AM CDT Onno Meyer wrote:

>Looking at my vehicles files, I wondered why there are so few rail vehicles. 
>An armored train for Cliffhangers, a couple of mag-levs for Traveller, a pair 
>of specialized robots on rails.

They are more moving buildings than vehicles for the PCs to operate.

>Is that a blind spot or perfectly logical? When GURPS Old West talks about 
>trains, they provide hexgrid plans for the cars, not stats for the engine. If 
>a rail vehicle appears in a game, are the player characters ever in the 
>driver's cab?

I've seen many movies with action set in the cars of a train, but only rarely 
have important characters (PCs) needed to be in the locomotive. Even thrn, it's 
to stop -- or prevent someone rlse from stopping -- the train.

Brandon
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