Steam train

[Varyon]

Another good reason to steal a train rather than destroy it and take what you need from the wreckage - trains can carry a lot of stuff fairly quickly and efficiently, which is kind of their whole point. If you're trying to steal a few gold ingots, sure, you can just blow it up, grab the loot, and go. If you're trying to steal a large shipment of iron, lumber, food, munitions, and/or whatever else the train is hauling, looting the train only lets you take whatever fraction of that you and your horses can safely carry ("safely" here also meaning you need to still be able to move quickly enough to get away), while stealing the train lets you take all of it. Do it right, and it can also prevent you from raising suspicions - a group of heavily-laden horses and riders showing up in town when a train that's supposed to pass through carrying a lot of goods is late draws more suspicion than that same train just passing on through (technically with a different crew - or perhaps the same crew, but with hidden hijackers training weapons on them - but you should be able to conceal that if anybody would notice in the first place).