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This tiny index is a collection of any and all tropes related in any way to railroads. As well as any works heavily featuring railroads.

Not to be confused with Railroading, Underground Railroad, or Soul Train.

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Tropes:

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• Afterlife Express
• Chained to a Railway
• Cool Train
• Handcar Pursuit
• Just Train Wrong
• Locomotive Level
• Orient Express
• Racing The Train
• Rail Enthusiast
• Railroad Baron
• Railroad Employee Roundhouse
• Railroad Tracks of Doom
• Runaway Train
• Sinister Subway
• Steam Never Dies
• Subways Suck
• Strangers On A Train Plot Murder
• Thriller On The Express
• Train Escape
• Train Job
• Train Song
• Train Station Goodbye
• Trainstopping
• Traintop Battle

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Works featuring lots of railroads:

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Anime And Manga

• Baccano
• Galaxy Express 999 And sequels
• The Galaxy Railways
• Night on the Galactic Railroad
• Yuritetsu - Shiritsu Yurigasaki Joshikou Tetsudoubu

Film

• Back to the Future Part III
• The Bridge On The River Kwai
• Emperor Of The North
• The General
• The Great Train Robbery
• Hugo
• Illusive Tracks
• The Iron Horse
• The Lady Vanishes
• Last Train Home
• Olsen-Banden på sporet
• Murder On The Orient Express
• Once Upon A Texas Train
• Once Upon A Time In The West
• The Polar Express
• Runaway Train
• Silver Streak
• The Station Agent
• Strangers on a Train
• Throw Momma From The Train
• The Titfield Thunderbolt
• Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
• Unstoppable

Literature

• Atlas Shrugged
• Murder on the Ballarat Train
• Murder On The Orient Express
• The Polar Express
• The Quadrail Series
• The Railway Children
• The Railway Series

Live Action TV

• Supertrain

Video Games

• The Last Express
• The Legend Of Zelda Spirit Tracks
• Locomotion
• Railroad Tycoon
• Transarctica
• Transport Tycoon
• Numerous railroad operating simulation programs.
  • Microsoft Train Simulator
  • Trainz
  • P I Engineering's Rail Driver

Western Animation

• Chuggington
• Dinosaur Train
• Thomas The Tank Engine

Subways

• Metro2033 The book and the video game.
• Money Train
• Subway, a transparently-titled early film by Luc Besson, which takes place almost entirely inside the Parisian subway network.
• The Taking Of Pelham 123

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