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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 featuring railroads.
Not to be confused with Railroading, Underground Railroad, or Soul Train.
All Aboard!
Tropes:
- Afterlife Express
- Cars Without Tires are Trains
- Chained to a Railway
- The Chikan
- Cool Train
- Ghost Train
- Handcar Pursuit
- High-Speed Train Reroute
- Just Train Wrong
- Locomotive Level
- Multi-Track Drifting
- Off Bridge, onto Vehicle (many examples where a train is the vehicle)
- Orient Express
- Painted Tunnel, Real Train
- Racing the Train
- Rail Enthusiast
- Railroad Baron
- Railroad Employee Roundhouse
- Railroad Plot
- Railroad to Horizon
- Railroad Tracks of Doom
- Runaway Train
- Sinister Subway
- Steam Never Dies
- "Strangers on a Train"-Plot Murder
- Subways Suck
- Thriller on the Express
- Track Trouble
- Train Escape
- Train Job
- Train Problem
- Train Song
- Train-Station Goodbye
- Trainstopping
- Traintop Battle
- Vehicle-Roof Body Disposal (a train is often used for this)
Works in which trains and/or railroads are important or featured:
Anime And Manga
- Baccano!
- The Brave Express Might Gaine
- Fullmetal Alchemist
- Galactic Whirlwind Sasuraiger
- Galaxy Express 999 And sequels
- The Galaxy Railways
- Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress
- Marine Express
- Night on the Galactic Railroad
- Rail Wars!
- Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion
- Yuritetsu - Shiritsu Yurigasaki Joshikou Tetsudoubu
Film
- 2046
- Atomic Train
- Back to the Future Part III
- La Bête Humaine
- Breakheart Pass
- The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Closely Watched Trains
- The Darjeeling Limited
- Disaster on the Coastliner
- Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
- Emperor of the North
- The Finishing Line
- The General
- The Great St. Trinians' Train Robbery
- The Great Train Robbery
- The Grey Fox
- Horror Express
- Howl
- Hugo
- Illusive Tracks
- The Iron Horse
- Krai
- The Lady Vanishes
- Last Clear Chance
- Last Train Home
- Der letzte Zug
- The Little Engine That Could
- Millionaires Express
- Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
- Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
- Night Train to Lisbon
- Night Train to Munich
- North West Frontier
- Olsen-Banden på sporet
- Once Upon a Texas Train
- Once Upon a Time in the West
- The Polar Express
- The Railrodder
- Runaway Train
- Shanghai Express
- Silver Streak
- Snowpiercer
- The Station Agent
- Strangers on a Train
- Terminus
- Terror By Night
- Terror Train
- Thomas and the Magic Railroad
- Throw Momma from the Train
- The Titfield Thunderbolt
- The Train
- Train to Busan
- Twentieth Century
- Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
- Union Pacific
- Unstoppable
- Von Ryan's Express
Literature
- Anna Karenina
- Atlas Shrugged
- Dreadnaught
- Forest of Boland Light Railway
- The Great Train Robbery
- Harry Potter
- Iron Council
- The Little Engine That Could
- Murder on the Ballarat Train
- Murder on the Orient Express
- The Mystery of the Blue Train
- Night on the Galactic Railroad
- The Polar Express
- The Quadrail Series
- Railsea
- The Railway Children
- The Railway Series
- Raising Steam
- Train Man (2010)
- Victoria features a post-apocalyptic setting where rail, rather than cars is the main means of transportation in the US. The story lavishes quite a bit of loving description on the railways, trains and mainly steam and diesel locomotives.
Live Action TV
- The Choo Choo Bob Show
- Hell on Wheels
- Junior Express
- Kamen Rider Den-O
- Oh, Doctor Beeching!
- I Love Toy Trains
- Ressha Sentai ToQger
- Shining Time Station
- Supertrain
- Wild West Tech
Theatre
Theme Parks
Video Games
- 3-D Ultra Lionel Traintown
- A-Train
- Dark Train
- Densha De Go
- Factorio
- Fear Equation
- The Final Station
- The Last Express
- The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
- Lionel Trains on Track
- Locomotion
- Nancy Drew: Last Train To Blue Moon Canyon
- Rail Works
- Rise Of Industry
- Trainyard
- Transarctica
- Transport Tycoon
- Numerous railroad operating simulation programs.
- Microsoft Train Simulator
- Railroad Tycoon
- Trainz
- P I Engineering's Rail Driver
Web Animation
- Shed 17
- Sodor: Dark Times
- Sodorthe Early Years
- The Stories of Sodor
- Tobias and the Half-Pariah
- TOMICA Thomas & Friends
Web Comics
Web Videos
Western Animation
- Anastasia
- Chuggington
- Dinosaur Train
- Fuji
- Home on the Rails
- Infinity Train
- Ivor the Engine
- John Henry and the Inky-Poo
- Porky's Railroad
- Thomas the Tank Engine
- Underground Ernie
- The Wrong Trousers: Plot relevant model train.
Subways
- Creep (2004)
- Death Line
- The Incident
- Kontroll
- Metro 2033 Both the book and the video game.
- The Midnight Meat Train
- Mini Metro
- Miracle Train
- Money Train
- Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion
- Subway, a transparently-titled early film by Luc Besson, which takes place almost entirely inside the Parisian subway network.
- Subway Surfers
- The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Real Life
- Amtrak
- High Speed Rail
- Long Island Railroad
- New Jersey Transit
- National Rail
- Deutsche Bahn
- Tokyo Train Lines
- Tokyo Subways
- Subways of the United States
- World Subways
