History Main / LocomotiveLevel

* A level in ''WarioLand 2'', and two levels in ''WarioLand Shake It!''

* One level in ''Commandoes 2'', where you're recovering some paintings.

* [[HalfLife Gordon Freeman]] spends a lot of time on trains, although never during active gameplay. The original game famously started with him in an elevated tram; the sequel had him arrive in City 17 on a train; and in Episode One, he and Alyx hitched a ride on a Combine train, and later used a rebel-operated train to escape from the city. Actually considering the whole gimmick of the original game is that you're free-moving at all times, even when you can really only go one way... [=~What Do You Mean, It's Not Symbolic?~=]

* The first planet encountered in the "Toy Time Galaxy" level from ''SuperMarioGalaxy'' has a large model train on it.

* ''GoldenEye'', imaginitively titled "Train".

* ''Goldeneye'' has James Bond fighting his way through a crowded train.

* A chapter in ''PaperMario The Thousand Year Door'' took place mostly on a train.

* ''[[DissidiaFinalFantasy Dissidia Duodecim]]'' has the Phantom Train from FinalFantasy6 as a level. The characters fight inside one of the cars and the seats are breakable.

* I would imagine ''LegendOfZelda: SpiritTracks'' would have involve this.

* ''TinyToonAdventures: Buster Busts Loose'' for the SNES, in the Western-themed level.

* ''GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' has two: one where you're on a motorcycle keeping up alongside the train, another where you're on a jetpack flying around the train. There are [[HundredPercentCompletion side-missions]] where you can drive a train, but nothing interesting happens. At all.
** Other than, except, you know, some pretty awesome crashes.

* ''MetalGear: Snake's Revenge'' has this

* ''Timesplitters: Future Imperfect''. Not only do you ride the rails, you ride other rails and go back in time to help yourself.

* The first level of Victoria's world in ''LittleBigPlanet 2'' takes place on a train.

** Charge Man's stage from ''Game/MegaMan 5''.

* One level in ''TombRaider: Chronicles'' as young Lara.

* You find yourself amidst a TrainJob in ''RedDeadRevolver'' while going to Brimstone

* Sunset Park Act 3 from ''Sonic Triple Trouble''.

* Again in ''FinalFantasy VII'' had the team take a train onto for the guards to catch up with them leaving out terrorists want-to-be heroes make a dash for it. There also is a haunted area named the Train Graveyard, full of derelict trains.
* In ''FinalFantasyVIII'' there's the Timber Owls SEED mission (plus a bossfight) that takes place on two separate trains.

* The game of ''Back To The Future III''.

* ''Uncharted 2'' has one, and it's probably the best example of one I've ever seen.

** As well as the last part of the second stage in Time Crisis 3.

* Jean-Bison's trainyard in the second "SlyCooper" game.
* Heather Mason has to fight through a train full of monsters in [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SilentHill3 Silent Hill 3]]

It's very common for our protagonists to find their way onto a train, it provides an interesting situation. You're stuck in a confined space, unable to get out once the train is moving, you may have to show your papers, you may be held up by a bunch of robbers, you never know who you're going to meet and nobody is ever completely sure if that toilet door is correctly shut.

After you've run around on the train for a little bit the only way is up, often leading to a TrainTopBattle.