Razor Train
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| General information | |
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| Health |
N/A (cannot be killed) |
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N/A |
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| Entity |
N/A (cannot be spawned) |
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A Razor Train is a train used by the Combine for transporting freight and prisoners between cities and outposts.
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[edit] Overview
As with much of Combine technology, the Razor Train is large, mostly featureless, and imposing. Custom-built to work on human rail networks transporting standard, secret cargo, human prisoners and Stalkers. One particular function they serve is to transport human prisoners to Nova Prospekt, the Combine-controlled prison/laboratory, and transport completed Stalkers and Overwatch Soldiers to the Citadel. Their ram-like, razor-thin appearance and all-black finish add to the threatening look of the fast moving vehicle.
Razor Trains resemble modern "hood unit" locomotives, one of which bears a dark red marking on the sides. Perhaps the most disconcerting aspect of the Razor Train is its horn: a distinctive, discordant bellow that announces the Train's arrival and sounds more like a wounded animal than an air horn. This is by no means always the case, though, as several times during the third, seven, ninth, and tenth chapters of Half-Life 2, they emit low air horn bellows instead. In addition, both of these sound effects are occasionally higher than normal, exhibited in chapters 3 and 7.
While razor trains are very fast and completely unyielding to any objects that may be on the tracks, from other vehicles to people to even friendly Combine units, implying they are entirely automated, all locomotives have what appear to be a driver's cab. This would suggest that razor trains may be crewed.
As seen in the Combine Depot and in Route Kanal, the trains seem to carry short loads in rapid succession at high speed as opposed to fewer but more heavily loaded trains. Seen in chapters 3 and 7, Razor Trains accompany human trains on the same railways.
Razor trains are unarmed. They do sometimes serve as an environmental hazard, however, specifically during the chapters Route Kanal and Highway 17.
[edit] Trivia
The Razor Train and provides a physics glitch in the Canals and at Bridge Point. When it is triggered, one should activate Noclip, stand above it, then deactivate Noclip to fall on the train. Then one should crouch right after, and wait for the train to enter a tunnel. If properly positioned, one should be sent in a huge jump at the farthest possible position (in Bridge Point, that should be from the start tunnel to the end tunnel, thus covering the whole bridge). In the Canals, the human train allows the same effects.
[edit] Gallery
[edit] Pre-release
 Razor Train running through the Wasteland near the Air Exchange (and a part of the skybox). |
 Early screenshot of a Razor Train being lifted. |
 Early concept art by Viktor Antonov. |
 Concept art for the Razor Train in the Depot. |
 Ditto. |
 Ditto. |
 The early brush Razor Train passing through the Combine Factories. |
 The early brush Razor Train. |
 Concept art of a Razor Train traveling through the Wasteland. |
 Razor Train locomotive near the Depot. |
 Concept art for the City 17 Trainstation with Razor Trains inside (here seen through the broken glass roof). |
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 Ditto. |
 Ditto. |
 Razor Train passing on a bridge above the Canals. |
 City 17 Razor Train poster. |
[edit] Retail
 Razor Trains on the Nova Prospekt platforms in the City 17 Trainstation. |
 A Razor Train passes by a canal and residential apartments. |
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 A Razor Train about to ram the player at Bridge Point. |
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 Razor Train passing by in the Depot. |
 A Razor Train locomotive. |
 Ditto. |
 A Razor Train in the Citadel. |
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 Dead Zombines in a Razor Train. |
[edit] List of appearances
- Half-Life 2 (First appearance)
- Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar
- Half-Life 2: Episode One
[edit] Notes and references
| Vehicles, vessels and transportation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Black Mesa transportation | Black Mesa SUV · Black Mesa Transit System · Black Mesa Truck | |
| HECU vehicles | AH-64 Apache · F-16 Fighting Falcon · M1A1 Abrams · M2A3 Bradley · M35 Cargo Truck · V-22 Osprey | |
| Combine vehicles | Advisor Platform · Armored Personnel Carrier · Hunter-Chopper · Razor Train | |
| Resistance vehicles | Airboat · Mil Mi-8 · Muscle Car · Scout Car | |
| Trainstations | City 17 Trainstation · Depot · Technical Trainstation | |
| Other | Borealis · Rail-based transportation | |
| Combine (cut) | AirEx Truck · C-130 · Combine SWAT Truck · M2A3 Bradley · Merkava · School Bus · V-22 Osprey | |
| Resistance (cut) | Borealis · C-130 · Jalopy · Jet Ski · Submarine · V-22 Osprey | |
| Other (cut) | F-117 Nighthawk · Digger | |
