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* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "Death in a Chocolate Box", the killer attempts to escape from Barnaby by dashing across the railway tracks ahead of an oncoming train. [[RailroadTracksOfDoom They don't make it.]]
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* A train blocks the progress of the drivers in the ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'' debut episode "See Saaw to Arkansas," yet Dick Dastardly's Mean Machine is on the other side. The train stops long enough for the other racers to go through a boxcar so the race can resume.
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* A train blocks the progress of the drivers in the ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'' debut episode "See Saaw Saw to Arkansas," yet Dick Dastardly's Mean Machine is on the other side. The train stops long enough for the other racers to go through a boxcar so the race can resume.
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* A train blocks the progress of the drivers in the ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'' debut episode "See Saaw to Arkansas," yet Dick Dastardly's Mean Machine is on the other side. The train stops long enough for the other racers to go through a boxcar so the race can resume.
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* ''Literature/AlexRider'': ''Point Blanc'' combines Type 1 and Type 2. Snowboarding down the mountain towards the railroad tracks, Alex uses a passing freight train to block enemy guards on the other side of the track with a machine gun, then jumps on to the top of the train to get away.
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** ''Point Blanc'' combines Type 1 and Type 2. Snowboarding down the mountain towards the railroad tracks, Alex uses a passing freight train to block enemy guards on the other side of the track with a machine gun, then jumps on to the top of the train to getaway.away.
** In ''Eagle Strike'', Alex crosses in front of an oncoming tram in order to escape the cars pursuing him on bike.
** ''Point Blanc'' combines Type 1 and Type 2. Snowboarding down the mountain towards the railroad tracks, Alex uses a passing freight train to block enemy guards on the other side of the track with a machine gun, then jumps on to the top of the train to get
** In ''Eagle Strike'', Alex crosses in front of an oncoming tram in order to escape the cars pursuing him on bike.
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* ''Film/HotBot'': After RacingTheTrain, Limus, Leonard and Bardot manage to to cut across in front of a freight train; leaving their pursuers stranded on the other side of the tracks.
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* ''Disney/BigHero6'': During the car chase, [=GoGo=] uses this move to put a moving train between them and Yokai. It doesn't throw him off for long though.
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* ''Disney/BigHero6'': ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'': During the car chase, [=GoGo=] uses this move to put a moving train between them and Yokai. It doesn't throw him off for long though.
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* Alina Rose does this in an attempt to escape Robyn in ''ComicBook/RobynHood: I Love NY'' #12: grabbing hold of the last car of a subway car as it pulls out of the station. However, she is not quite fast enough to escape and, when she cannor force the carriage door open, she is forced into a TraintopBattle with Robyn.
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* Alina Rose does this in an attempt to escape Robyn in ''ComicBook/RobynHood: I Love NY'' #12: grabbing hold of the last car of a subway car as it pulls out of the station. However, she is not quite fast enough to escape and, when she cannor cannot force the carriage door open, she is forced into a TraintopBattle with Robyn.
* In ''ComicBook/TheFurtherAdventuresOfIndianaJones'' #25, Indy and Jessie Hale escape from a gang of bandits by chasing after a train and clambering on to the caboose before the bandits can catch up with them.
* In ''ComicBook/TheFurtherAdventuresOfIndianaJones'' #25, Indy and Jessie Hale escape from a gang of bandits by chasing after a train and clambering on to the caboose before the bandits can catch up with them.
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* ''Literature/{{Hilda}}'': in ''Hilda and the Great Parade'', when running from [[TheBully Trevor]] with the unconscious raven, Hilda loses him by jumping across the train tracks just before a train passes, and Trevor is thus forced to wait.
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* In the ''Series/BroadCity'' episode "Getting There," Abbi and Ilana hop a subway turnstile and are chased by a security guard. They run onto a train right before the doors close.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbAcrossTheSecondDimension'', second dimension Candace detaches the a minecart with the first dimension heroes inside so she, her brothers and the other resistance members can escape from the robots chasing them.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbAcrossTheSecondDimension'', ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossThe2ndDimension'', second dimension Candace detaches the a minecart with the first dimension heroes inside so she, her brothers and the other resistance members can escape from the robots chasing them.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbAcrossTheSecondDimension'', second dimension Candace detaches the a minecart with the first dimension heroes inside so she, her brothers and the other resistance members can escape from the robots chasing them.
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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E4NikolaTeslasNightOfTerror "Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror"]], the Doctor gets rid of a mysterious figure chasing her, her companions, Nikola Tesla and his assistant on a train after separating him from his weapon, by pulling the bolt out of a coupling, leaving the attacker on the back half of the train as the rest speeds on to New York.
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* In ''Series/DayBreak'', Hopper fools his pursuers by stepping onto a train but somehow being able to exit the car the other side and hide in the subway tube.
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* In ''Series/DayBreak'', ''Series/DayBreak2006'', Hopper fools his pursuers by stepping onto a train but somehow being able to exit the car the other side and hide in the subway tube.
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* ''Series/{{Hanna}}'': at the end of "Friend," Hanna catches a ride on a departing passenger train by running after it and climbing onto the rear of the last car.
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Grandia}}'', Justin and Co escape from Nina, Saki and Mio by detaching the engine from the rest of the train with their enemies in ''the engine''. Since Justin had broken the brake lever before that happened, the Garlyle soldiers were stuck in the moving train for hours until it slowed down, while the heroes walked away.
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Grandia}}'', ''VideoGame/Grandia1'', Justin and Co escape from Nina, Saki and Mio by detaching the engine from the rest of the train with their enemies in ''the engine''. Since Justin had broken the brake lever before that happened, the Garlyle soldiers were stuck in the moving train for hours until it slowed down, while the heroes walked away.
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* An odd variant of this trope comes in ''Series/KamenRiderDenO''. The titular hero's train, the DenLiner, is capable of travelling through time and space, as well as lay its tracks down on any surface, [[UpToEleven even on thin air]]. This means that it can literally swoop down out of nowhere and allow the heroes to simply jump on board, or scoop them up while travelling at max speed.
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* An odd variant of this trope comes in ''Series/KamenRiderDenO''. The titular hero's train, the DenLiner, [=DenLiner=], is capable of travelling through time and space, as well as lay its tracks down on any surface, [[UpToEleven even on thin air]]. This means that it can literally swoop down out of nowhere and allow the heroes to simply jump on board, or scoop them up while travelling at max speed.
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* ''Series/CastleRock'': In episode 9, which is set entirely [[spoiler: in the alternate universe that The Kid came from, and where Henry Deaver somehow ended up in during the 11 days he went missing. When Molly convinces The Kid to help Henry get home, but has to ditch the police car following them, she stops for a railroad crossing, then suddenly accalerates and crosses it right before the train arrives.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' subverts it: Ned pursues Homer in a car; Homer attempts a Train Escape, but Ned manages to jump through an empty car to continue after him.
** In another ''TheSimpsons'' episode (the one in Florida), Homer loses a chasing police car by crossing in front of an oncoming train, and then promptly gets hit by a train going in the opposite direction on the second set of tracks.
*** That's a DoubleSubversion.
** Another Simpsons example - When Homer becomes Death and is made to kill Marge, he kills Patty instead and tapes Marge's hair to her head. God figures it out and chases him with a beam of light. Homer speeds away, comes to some train tracks and ''just'' makes it across. God's light has to wait on the other side until the train gets out of the way.
** In another ''TheSimpsons'' episode (the one in Florida), Homer loses a chasing police car by crossing in front of an oncoming train, and then promptly gets hit by a train going in the opposite direction on the second set of tracks.
*** That's a DoubleSubversion.
** Another Simpsons example - When Homer becomes Death and is made to kill Marge, he kills Patty instead and tapes Marge's hair to her head. God figures it out and chases him with a beam of light. Homer speeds away, comes to some train tracks and ''just'' makes it across. God's light has to wait on the other side until the train gets out of the way.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Homer the Heretic" subverts it: Ned pursues and his family pursue Homer in a car; Homer attempts a Train Escape, Escape and just makes it across at the last moment, but Ned manages to jump through an empty car boxcar to continue after him.
** Inanother ''TheSimpsons'' episode "Kill the Alligator and Run" (the one in Florida), Homer loses a chasing police car by crossing in front of an oncoming freight train, and then then, in a DoubleSubversion, promptly gets hit by a an Amtrak train going in the opposite direction on the second set of tracks.
*** That's a DoubleSubversion.
** Another Simpsons example From "Treehouse of Horror XIV" - When Homer becomes Death and is made to kill Marge, he kills Patty instead and tapes Marge's hair to her head. God figures it out and chases him with a beam of light. Homer speeds away, comes to some train tracks and ''just'' makes it across. God's light has to wait on the other side until the train gets out of the way.
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* ''VideoGame/ViolentStorm'': At the end of the second stage (which is entirely set on board a train), after the player has defeated the boss, Joe, [[TheDragon Red Freddy]] unhooks the train carriage that the player is on in order to escape.
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* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': In the Season 7 episode "Longbow Hunters", while on a train that is transporting a dangerous weapon, Diggle orders Felicity to remotely unhook the wagons that [[BigBad Diaz]] and the Longbow Hunters are in so they can't get to the weapon. When Felicity can't bring herself to do it since that would mean Diaz escapes again, Curtis does it for her.
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* ''Series/TheKillPoint'': Mr. Pig is the only one of the robbers who manages to become a KarmaHoudini after hopping onto a passing train to escape the pursuing SWAT team.
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* A subway variant occurs in ''Film/TheFrenchConnection'', ending with [[KarmaHoudini the target]] [[MomentOfAwesome waving goodbye to his pursuer]].
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* A subway variant occurs in ''Film/TheFrenchConnection'', ending with [[KarmaHoudini the target]] [[MomentOfAwesome [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome waving goodbye to his pursuer]].
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*** And used straight in ''Recap/TintinCigarsOfThePharaoh''.
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* The end of the "Fear That Gives Men Wings" stage of ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'' has Vinnie Gognitti jumping onto a train to get away from Max. Max has to do the same with the next train in order to end the level and continue the chase.
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* The end of the "Fear That Gives Men Wings" stage of ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'' has Vinnie Gognitti jumping onto a train to get away from Max. Max has to do the same with the next train in order to end the level and continue the chase. The fact that Gognitti managed to pull this off after a lengthy rooftop chase and then somehow jumped ''off'' the train without breaking every bone in his body, and did so ''after'' taking a bullet to the gut in a cutscene, is somewhat at odds with his depiction as a whiny NonActionGuy...
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* ''Film/{{Logan}}'': Logan, Charles and Laura escape from the Reavers in Mexico using this trick.
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* ''Film/{{Logan}}'': Logan, Charles and Laura escape from the Reavers in Mexico using this trick.when they cross just ahead of a very long freight train.
