Thanalan - train tracks... what are they for?

[Darius-Stormcrow]

I like to pretend they're actually there to hold Thanalan together, if you took 'em out the whole region would just come flying apart.

[aerolol]

The Phantom Train (from FF6) should be running on those tracks to take you to the Phantom Forest somewhere. (West Shroud, perhaps?)
That'd be better than the Doomtrain imo

[Ilitsa]

Pretty sure the Twin adders destroyed Doomtrain during the Castrum siege of 2.0's storyline....


Phantom Train on the otherhand, would be awesome....

especially of the monk personal limitbreak in 3.x is a suplex...

[Neri]

Pretty sure the Twin adders destroyed Doomtrain during the Castrum siege of 2.0's storyline....


Phantom Train on the otherhand, would be awesome....

especially of the monk personal limitbreak in 3.x is a suplex...

I think mnk's lb won't changed though. Just like blm's lb.

[Enkidoh]

Pretty sure the Twin adders destroyed Doomtrain during the Castrum siege of 2.0's storyline....


Phantom Train on the otherhand, would be awesome....

especially of the monk personal limitbreak in 3.x is a suplex...

You have them mixed up - it was actually the Phantom Train that is the name of the secret Garlean railway that runs between Castrum Centri and Castrum Meridanium, and not Doomtrain. The Order of the Twin Adder merely blockaded it though - it's not destroyed (it's tracks still remain intact after all). Either way, Doomtrain could still show up somewhere.

But yeah, I'd love to see Thanalan's railway opened up to players - maybe it could be used like how the small boats are used in Limsa and Gridania (provide access to and from the city out into the field)?

To quote Selphie: "I like trains." :3

[Ecks007]

Did they ever do anything with the train tracks in Gustaburg in XI? I played that game through the first 4 expansions and they were never more than scenery the entire time.

Here's hoping that something cool does eventually take place upon the Thanalan tracks, but I doubt it.

[Seif]

What I find depressing is that if you follow them to the tunnel there are PERMANENT blockades on tracks.

I really hope they give these a purpose someday. It would be awesome to see a train pass by every now and then.

[Blindheart]

Need to turn them into a roller coaster ride for the gold saucer.

[DracotheDragon]

i love how everyone is saying doom train or phantom train, all the tracks are are simple minecart rails, the area of thanalan has a lot of mines coal mines copper mines and even gold mines so the tracks (which if you look go to the Athercite in central thanalan (i forgot its name)) there is the coal deposit, the tracks go though this area and to another mine :3

no doomtrain
no phantom train
just mines

[Enkidoh]

i love how everyone is saying doom train or phantom train, all the tracks are are simple minecart rails, the area of thanalan has a lot of mines coal mines copper mines and even gold mines so the tracks (which if you look go to the Athercite in central thanalan (i forgot its name)) there is the coal deposit, the tracks go though this area and to another mine :3

no doomtrain
no phantom train
just mines

Actually, that's not quite correct - the line that runs between Castrum Meridanium in Northern Thanalan and Castrum Centri in Mor Dhona is completely separate from Ul'dah's mining line - they're not even the same 'gauge' (term for the distance between the rails - I told you I like trains! ), it was built and is owned by the Garlean Empire, and is used by the Garleans for moving weapons and personnel between the two Castrum - it this that is frequently referred to in the story as 'the Phantom Train', presumably because of it's secretive military nature. This line has no connection to the Ul'dahn line that runs from under Ul'dah through Black Brush to the Nanawa Mines which is indeed used for hauling ore, which is the line most players are wanting to see opened up for gameplay purposes.

As for Doomtrain, given how it's stated Primals are formed, it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to find that maybe one day some overworked trackganger at Black Brush Station in his cups blames his lack of sobriety on a 'doomtrain' that chased him through the night (garbling vague mentions overheard about the secret Garlean line from returned Twin Adder soldiers after Operation Archon), and the idea spreads by word of mouth, until finally, someone who happened to come into possession of a quantity of crystals is whispered in his ear by a black clad figure and makes the mistake of turning what was an urban legend whispered in taverns into a terrifying reality.