Steam train

[Dexion]

I'm looking for the stats of a steam-powered train like in cowboy movies for a post-apocalystic scenario. In which book can I find it? I look in HT but nothing.

And I looking for some advices/ideas of customise it for defenses and tactics to take possession of the train without destroy it ?

Of course I thinking to put some trunks or rocks on the rails, but it easy to clean the way with lots of peoples to do the job and some watchers with guns.
I don't need solutions with mutants/zombies or things like this because it's a Mad Max like scenario.

[DangerousThing]

You might want to read or watch some Western movies with train robberies in them.

It is difficult to really arm a train, but they might do this in a post-Apocalyptic scenario.

I wonder if some trains might be in Deadlands?

[DangerousThing]

Or how about GURPS Classic Old West?

I don't have this, but it did come up in a google search for "gurps train maps".

[Dexion]

I was thinking of Gurps Old West but I don't have this book....

[johndallman]

Originally Posted by DangerousThing

Or how about GURPS Classic Old West?

It has floorplans, maps, history, and a detailed section on "How to rob a train."

[Dexion]

The problem of the adventurers it's that they need to stop often to refuel the train (water/wood) and this type of train are slow, you can easily catch it with a motorbike or a car.

[Phil Masters]

For the game-mechanical vehicle details, see p. B464 for a TL5 "workhorse" engine, and Vehicles: Steampunk Conveyances, p. 4-5 and 8 for a couple more locos and a brief discussion of handling steam trains in play.

[Dalillama]

Originally Posted by DangerousThing

You might want to read or watch some Western movies with train robberies in them.

It is difficult to really arm a train, but they might do this in a post-Apocalyptic scenario.

I wonder if some trains might be in Deadlands?

It's not that terribly difficult, both World Wars featured armed
Trains. It's usually not very helpful, though.

[Dalillama]

Originally Posted by Dexion

I'm looking for the stats of a steam-powered train like in cowboy movies for a post-apocalystic scenario. In which book can I find it? I look in HT but nothing.

And I looking for some advices/ideas of customise it for defenses and tactics to take possession of the train without destroy it ?

Of course I thinking to put some trunks or rocks on the rails, but it easy to clean the way with lots of peoples to do the job and some watchers with guns.
I don't need solutions with mutants/zombies or things like this because it's a Mad Max like scenario.

Have a read of Cherie Priest's Dreadnaught, it's got big armed trains in a steampunk setting.

[Inky]

If you're looking for ideas about things that might happen to a train going through the wilds, and how people might attempt to defend themselves against them, there's the train journey from San Francisco to New York in Around the World in 80 Days. It covers several chapters, and fully lives up to the title of one of them:
"IN WHICH CERTAIN INCIDENTS ARE NARRATED WHICH ARE ONLY TO BE MET WITH ON AMERICAN RAILROADS".